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⌈ Secret Post #524 ⌋

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You took someone else's art, cropped and contrasted it.

And the person giving the compliment obviously liked the way that particular art had been cropped and contrasted into that specific icon. Hence, the compliment being to the icon maker. Hence, lolfail @ you.

Cropping and adjusting colour does not make one an icon maker. :| They don't really deserve compliments for that.

They still put effort into it. I've seen enough crappy crop-jobs, bad quality and etc, that if someone can make good, clean bases, I'd definitely compliment them. It took me forever to be able to figure out where exactly to crop so the icons didn't just look boring and crappy, so I do know it's not much, but it's harder than it looks- especially when you have to get into cleaning the scans, sharpening the lines, etc.

I must be doing it wrong because I don't find it hard or time consuming to crop an image and adjust the colour and contrast.

Depends on how much time you put into it, I guess. I tend to be really careful about where to crop and how much of the picture to use (trying to fit too much of the shot in the picture and I think it gets too small, etc etc). I just learned a shortcut as to sharpening pictures really well, but if the colors seem a bit off it can take some fine-tuning. You also get the people who take a few hours and make a TON of bases- and in that case, each individual base might not have taken a long time, but there was effort put into the project as a whole, so it's still pretty cool of them to put the effort in.

The fact remains, the icon was getting complimented- if I say "oh, hey, nice icon!" even to a simply-colored base, I tend to like the way it's colored, or what part of the picture was used, the effect of the crop... Sometimes I even compliment a person for a "just cropped and recolored" icon, despite seeing the same shot with added text and effects etc etc, because I DO like the simplicity of it.

Personally, I like how clean that icon is, how simple it is- it doesn't really need text like "overcoming PAIN" or something in it like someone else might do, and while I think some of the left side could have been taken off to give it a better balance, mostly I like the crop job.

SORRY TO TL;DR YOU, I don't even think we're really arguing, I just. Kinda want to explain where it's coming from on the other side? Something like that.

Haha, I get where you're coming from. :)

And it's refreshing to know I'm not the only one that likes simple icons. :s I get overwhelmed when I see an icon with fifty billion filters and fancy tiny text all smashed into a 100 x 100 pixel box.

Yeah, I do like icons with effects and text, but there's a right way to do it, and when it just piles things on it looks ridiculous IMO. Most of the icons I tend to really love are usually simple ones where it's just. A picture worth a thousand words to me. :>

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