Icons etc.

[thisbluespirit]

I've come up with a make-icons plan! (Why do I always need a plan/excuse for things I like doing?) Anyway, one of the joys of LJ is there's a comm for everything, even if it's been defunct for five or more years, so... I have themes stolen from icons200, which are alphabetical and in sets of 10, so I just decide on a show/character/pairing for that set, make the 10 icons, and am allowed up to 10 artist's choice on the same subject, and once I get a set, make a post! Simple. (Those are my rules that I made up, btw.)

Not simple - getting used to a new graphics programme. Why is this one superior to the other in nearly all the ways, but it won't do a simple thing like rotate a layer rather than the whole image? (I had to do text on a new image, rotate that and copy it in. Well, I moved the image over actually, it doesn't seem to want to copy, or not to paste it anyway. But I have brushes, so you know... Software being software, basically. Especially, as ever, with me, free/outdated/cheap software being software.)

Anyway, first set will be Poldark, as threatened, but Ross & Demelza only this time. (But I have 19 more sets to go, and I'll definitely do the other characters. I need to screencap some more yet, too.)

Comments

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

Yay, Poldark icons! \o/ I do have to say, though, that it's your fault I finally ordered a Poldark DVD. ::wags finger sternly:: I was all stiff-upper-lip and not giving in until you talked about it.

(I'm not actually blaming you. I loved the programme way back when I saw it in re-runs on a cable channel and I've been thinking about getting it for ages.)

I hope you manage to get to grips with your new graphics programme. I hate it when they add a 1001 bells and whistles and you can't figure out how to work anything.

[thisbluespirit]

*looks innocent*

Well, I hope you enjoy the DVDs, then! It's funny - I clicked on the Poldark tag after talking about it again the other day, and found I started off with: "My Mum's forced me to watch her stupid old show by buying it for me, and everyone's very annoying, but, oh dear, now I'm in love with Angharad Rees and Robin Ellis, and there's galloping about on horseback." It grew on me rapidly after that, as you can see. :lol:

So, actually, blame my Mum!!

Well, I'm the one who downloaded it, and I can still just go back to the other one, and get GIMP for extra brushes, so it's not too bad. I'm hoping, though, I can get used to this one, which is mostly better, and then get rid of the old one, but we'll see. When I first tried it the other day, I thought I'd never be able to do anything, but I've made quite a few icons with it already! ;-)

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

So, actually, blame my Mum!!

Aha! ::sends slightly dark look in Lost Spook's Mum's direction:: Not that I know which direction she's in, so just picture me turning around like a lighthouse while sending out a slightly dark look.

But also, yay for your Mum for having such good taste in programmes! :oD

Inconsistent. Me?

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: My Mum is in the south west, but don't glare at her too hard, she's quite nice, really! (But that is an amusing mental picture, anyway. :-D)