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My new icon didn't come out quite the way I meant it to.

Here's the basic image.

Can you tell I'm not a graphic artist? :-)

EDIT: Improved by

jan_rosencrantz

EDIT: And improved even further by the 'Kitty!

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From:

schizokitty.livejournal.com

Silver Chair...I haven't read that in forever, but I certainly don't remember any line that begins "damn sight better than..." ^_^

Be that as it may, I've got two versions of the icon for you: one with white text and one with red and blue text. I cropped the picture closer so you can see Mr. Sheen's face better at 100x100. (That's the trick -- build the damn thing at 100x100 right off the bat. It's a bitch, but at least you know what will ultimately work.)

These are at least legible, though I think I could do better in Photoshop -- I had to use Elements for these because that's what I have on the laptop. But I might be persuaded to go to the Big Machine sometime and crack open a can of Photoshop Whoop Ass. (What can I say? I'm a PS junkie. ^_^;)

IF I knew how to do animated gifs, I'd put the "My President may be fictional" on a different frame from "but he's a damn sight better than yours" -- that's just a lot of text for one 100x100 image, but I don't know how to do animated gifs, so it's all pretty moot, ne? If I learn though, I'll send that one, too. ^.^

From:

magaidhbhan.livejournal.com

I never would have recognized it as such, but I now that he mentions it, I do seem to recall a point at which Eustace (or is it Rilian? -- or actually, come to think of it, it may have been Puddleglum!) is resisting the witch's attempts to entice them to stay in the underland kingdom -- talking about sunshine and truth, or somesuch. That's it, I think - the others had nearly forgotten the sun and the world above ground, but leave it to a Marshwiggle to resist enchantment and remember how nice the real world is ... damn, if only I had my CS Lewis here! I really want to reread it now :)

From:

winterbadger

It's Puddleglum himself, Mr Stolid, who says...

One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow.

I Googled it, and it seems to be used by an awful lot of Christian websites as a perfect confession of faith. I can unerstand why--it's a good example of a simple, honest fellow sticking by what in his heart he knows to be true in the face of wicked and insincere blandishments.

From:

winterbadger

Those are SUPER! Thank you so much!

Framing and cropping, yes, that's always so important, and not something I always do well. I was trying to do the outlines txt but couldn't find a way to do that in PS--is it just layering the text somehow, or did I miss a tool?

And, yes, I realised that an animated icon would be the way to do it (one could even use several different pictures of Bartlett that way), but I don't know how to do those either :-).

From:

schizokitty.livejournal.com

What version of PS do you have? I think with 7 and up you get layer styles, which is the easiest possible way to get outlines. For text layers, as a matter of fact, you don't even have to make a selection, just hit the little "f" icon at the bottom of the layers palette and up pops the dialogue box where you can choose from a plethora effects. "Stroke" is the one you want. Check the box, then click on the name of the effect, and all the variables come up on the right hand side of the dialogue box. Coolness, ne?

If you have a pre-layer effects version of PS, you could rasterise the text, load the selection of the rasterized text, turn the selection into a path in the Paths palette, then stroke the path by hitting the "stroke path" icon at the bottom of the Paths palette. This is less elegant than the previous method, especially since turning selections into paths usually results in a not-all-that-accurate version of the original selection, and you have to remember to load the correct brush and color beforehand or you might get some funky shit goin' down. >;-)

If you really want to know, let me know your version of PS, and I can walk you through via e-mail or something. ^_^

(Sorry -- I'm not only a Photoshop Goddess, I'm also a Photoshop junkie. ^_^;;)