8 more icons

[jerico_cacaw]

As a Photoshop-less kind of person, I usually make my icons with Paint and/or PowerPoint and/or Picture Manager. So I took the original dreamsheep!icon made by helens78 and the Dreamwidth logo from the wiki, and reworked them. They are all shareable, and if anybody wants the base in *.ppt I can share it too.

Two Dreamwidth icons -- because I like DW pink very much
Two miscellaneous icons -- morse code
Two location_flag icons -- Mexico, both
Two fandom icons -- Star Trek Spock, I'm not sure about the ears

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

Comments

[helens78]

Oh, wow, they look beautiful! :D I love all of them, and I do like the Spock sheep with the pointy ears. Aww!

[jerico_cacaw]

I feared the pointy ears would made it look a little like a fox, so I'm glad you liked it :D.

[zvi]

Oh, the spock sheep is GREAT, the one with the pointy ears. Love it.

Also, the second Mexican flag is really pretty.

[jerico_cacaw]

I'm wondering if I should call it a Shpoook :P.

And yeah, I liked the graphic I used in the second Mexican flag very much. It's pwetty.

[hatman]

Nice. Like the Spock sheep.

But I noticed you said you're using Paint because you don't have anything better. And I remember those days. Those were the days before I got Paint.net and Inkscape. And, actually, there's also GIMP. All of which are free.

Inkscape does wonders with text, once you get used to the interface. It can get the text to follow just about any path you care to draw, put in color gradients, and so much more.

The other two are Photoshop replacements. I use Paint.net, and it's way better than Corel's Paint Shop Pro (which I stupidly bought before I heard of PDN). And I've got a friend who's been very happy with GIMP. GIMP even does animated images, which I've been doing manually with Unfreez (also free).

All of which is to say that, while you clearly are getting along, there are some good free options out there.

[jerico_cacaw]

Actually, I use Paint to convert, especially when turning Photoshop bases and other similar files into something readable for ppt -- it is very helpful for changing difficult-to-deal-with backgrounds and to work together with Snipping Tool. And Picture Manager helps me convert and compress the files into better quality, icon size files. And Pivot is used by me to create animations and gifs. And Corel Paint 3 (which was included in my graphic pen table software bundle) to prettify my photo-based stuff.

But for my graphics and working with layers I prefer PowerPoint, as the modify points feature allows my creativity to flow freely, if only because it was with this program that I learned to do animations :D. It might also be that I work with PowerPoint on a daily basis and have to create professional-looking presentations at least once a month, so this is one program I know almost inside-out.

< ETA >A combination of PowerPoint/Paint is also, in my experience, the easiest way to work with dwg files (AutoCAD and such) and satellite photographs, which I frequently use < /ETA >

On the other hand, the Office 2007 version of PowerPoint can sometimes become a pain in the ass because of a glitch that wan't fixed with the SP1, and probably never will. I can work around it if I don't zoom over 300% in my laptop, or if I work in my big screen PC. Still it is frustrating whenever I come face-to-face with it >:/

Which is why I'll be giving a try to the software you linked to (especially because of the text thing you mentioned). As you can see, I am not against using different programs for different stuff, as I'm yet to find the perfect one to replace them all. Not that I'm looking for it. Freeware and shareware is always being installed/deleted in my computer, as it gives me new ideas that sometimes I can apply somewhere else.

[now, vidding is something i still haven't given a try]

[frangipani]

These are awesome -- I may have to nab the Spock sheep. ;)

[jerico_cacaw]

You might nab the Spock sheep whenever you want ;P

[cleo]

Love the Spock sheep with pointy ears!

[jerico_cacaw]

And I think your "I'm a doctor" icon is awesome :).

[tree]

i like the second pink sheep very much. dear gods, dw has turned me into a pink-liking person. will the madness never end?

and i LOVE the morse code sheep :D *steals*

so many sheep; so little time.

[jerico_cacaw]

You'll never see nothing anything pink on me ... except for my DW journal.

[red_trillium]

I took your Spock 1 and will credit you & community when I upload :D

[cranberry]

2nd pink sheep! adorable, thank you :) will credit.

[wendelah1]

I took the Spock sheep. I have a whole flock now.

[assassinscloak]

Eee! Spock sheep -- it's only logical after all!

[absurdity]

Taking #2! Lovely! I like the pink as well, and I don't usually like pink.

[lyonie17]

snagging pointy-eared spock sheep, thanks. will credit!

[godplaysdice]

This was posted forever ago, but I'm yoinking 006. It's so pretty! Will credit, of course. :)

[edithjones]

I love the Spock with the pointy ears; have nabbed and will credit.
Thanks!
-Edith.