I give up.

[luvxander]

Been sitting here for a little over two hours, trying to teach myself how to make decent icons. It's no use. I can't seem to find any simple icon tutorials. All the ones I've located seem to take it for granted that you already know how to use PSP. And most of those are for PSP 8, I have PSP 9.

Others want to teach you how to do colors and stuff to bases they've already made - Don't I need to know how to make the bases first?

Other things I can't teach myself how to do include making my website pretty. Right now it's passable. But I see so many out there that are really great, and I sneer at mine.

But I give up. Obviously, I'm just too stupid to get it. I shall go back to my old ways of begging others to make them and snitching them from shareable posts.

Comments

[luvxander.livejournal.com]

See? That's the whole thing right now. I don't even know what kind of icons I want.I just want really pretty generic icons. I don't go too deeply into the fandom stuff anymore, as much as that saddens me.

I'm, maybe, going to try again some this weekend. We'll see how it turns out.

[saifai.livejournal.com]

The process of making an icon is pretty generic no matter what pretty pictures you use. So long as it's cropped to the proper 100x100 size, you've got a base. There's a function to "crop" a picture no matter the software you use. Depending on whether you're using PSP or PSD will determine where you'll find the crop function.