For now, I'm just putting up the links to both the sub-albums on my public Photobucket account. If you want to browse through them, be my guest.
. You're getting better, Phasewing
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...Well, not really extraordinaries, but we make your spiffy little icons your characters wear!
Helpful Guideline to Making Requests:
So you want something made into a pretty little 50x50/30x30 pixel icon? No sweat, here's what you do if you don't want to make it yourself:
1st, make sure the image is decently large enough.
2nd, also, it has to be a pretty clear picture, but some can work out slightly bad quality images.
3rd, post it here and leave offerings(cookies, sugar goods, money, valuables, etc) of what would please the alt makers greatly. :P ..Jk!
Also, for Hopeful Maker-to-Be's, I'll string up Mkall's Altmaking 101 instructions for you to see. To be perfectly honest, I use photoshop for this. Not sure entirely on other painting programs but photoshop is a definite.
ALT MAKING 101 by Mkall
1.] Find a picture, the larger the better.
2.] The two sidebars that I find most helpful are the layers and the revision history sidebars. Their use will be come apparent shortly.
3.] On the picture, duplicate the layer and then delete the background layer.
4.] Delete everything that is not part of the desired alt. The magic wand tool is the simplest, but sometimes you'll need to get funky with the lasso tool to get everything. Don't worry about getting the perfect cut out.
5.] Select some parts of the alt that you wish to be the black accents. Remember that the final product will be shrunk down to 50x50 and 30x30, so don't worry about the finer details.
6.] When you've selected what you want, go to Layer --> New Fill Layer --> Solid Colour. Check the box that says "group with previous layer" and make sure that the Color is None, Mode is Normal and Opacity is 100%. Click Ok, select the colour black and click ok.
7.] If you wish to add more black accents, select what you wish, then select on the fill layer and hit "Delete".
8.] Crop the image so that the frame just grazes the extremity of each side.
9.] Select the base layer, and add another fill layer (Layer --> New Fill Layer --> Solid Colour (Same settings as before)). This time choosing whatever colour you wish (web-safe colours are the preferred choice though).
10.] Once you are satisfied with how your alt looks, time to shrink it down: Select Image --> Image Size and set the longest dimension (height or width) to 42 pixels and click ok.
11.] Select Image --> Canvas Size and set both margins to 50 pixels. Click Ok.
12.] Double clicking the small pic of layer 1 in the layers sidebar should bring up the Layer Style window. If not, Layer --> Layer Style --> Stroke will get us there too. Set the stroke to be 2 pixels and black in colour. After a while, you could always make this into a preset style for easier use. Click ok.
13.] If you are satisfied, save it as a .gif file. Make sure you can differentiate the large and small versions of the alt in later references. The settings on the .gif are as follows: Palette: Local(selective), Colours: 64, Forced: Black and White, Check Transparancy, Matte: None and Dither: None. Click Ok. Row Order: Normal, click Ok again.
14.] On the history sidebar, go back to the step you did just before the shrinking. Now repeat steps 10 through to 13 using 24 instead of 42 and expanding the canvas to 30 pixels. Save it again as a .gif.
15.] Go back to the large image and save your PSD file. You have no idea how handy they can become if you misplace your gifs.
Feel free to post questions you might have. Certainly can answer to the best of our abilities.
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Disclaimer note:
Just because we make the alts does not mean that all of them will make it into the game.
