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strange_complexI haven't done a meme for an awfully long time, but I feel I deserve one. This one is taken from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pickwick and based on code by 
elfflame - but I changed the way the table displayed so that it would be legible on a wider range of journal layouts, including mine!
MAH ICONS.
HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 146
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 195
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: I might have done before all permanent account holders were suddenly given a whacking 45 extra icon spaces a month or so back. Now, I don't think I need to.
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: Kind of. I mean, not a terribly profound one, but I am very strict about making them all myself, so each one individually is very personal expression of my interests. Collectively I like to think they add up to a sort of cheerful enthusiasm.
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: If Rome and the Romans count as a 'fandom', then that is the out and out winner with c. 30 icons (depending on how far you're prepared to push the theme to include Classical receptions). If not, Doctor Who is next with seven...
AND THE SECOND MOST: ...followed by 6 for various incarnations of Stephen Fry and 5 each for Severus Snape and The Wicker Man.
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Jooster, apparently, by dint of having two. I'm not a massive shipper.
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: NO.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: Yes. I make all my own icons, and very occasionally make them for friends or the general public, too.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: These days, actually, they're not too shabby. And I even have an award to prove it. That's the result of several months spent observing other people's work, reading tutorials (there's a great starter set here) and entering challenges on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dw_icontest. Alas, that community seems to have ground to a halt now, but I've reaped the benefits of it, and am now able to make much better icons. The problem with that, though, is that I now actually think about 90% of my own, older icons are dreadful, including some of the ones I've put in the table above. :-( My ongoing project is to revamp them, so that they're the same basic icons but better executed. However, the time available for doing that just never seems to materialise, and besides I no longer have the original source images for some of them. Oh well, there's no rush.
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Basically annoying. I know I have one (the Tom Baker one above), and use it whenever I get the chance, but that's partly because I wanted to find out how to make them, and partly because he is just TOO SEXAH, and there was no way I was ever going to convey that and get the whole quotation I wanted into one still 100x100 pixel image. One exception amongst 146 is excusable though - what I can't understand is people who have whole collections of almost nothing but animated icons. Especially when they scroll so fast that you can't even tell what is meant to be going on. Sometimes, I actually have to put my hand up to the screen to cover whatever annoying icon is blinking and flashing at me, in order to be able to concentrate on reading the post it's attached to. Gah! Rant over.
DO THE MEME.
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pickwick and based on code by elfflame - but I changed the way the table displayed so that it would be legible on a wider range of journal layouts, including mine!| default | oldest | newest |
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| saddest | happiest | angriest |
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| cutest | sexiest | funniest |
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| fave ship | fave fandom | fave animated |
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| best quote | best textless | best stolen idea |
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| use the most | favourite | |
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HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 146
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 195
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: I might have done before all permanent account holders were suddenly given a whacking 45 extra icon spaces a month or so back. Now, I don't think I need to.
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: Kind of. I mean, not a terribly profound one, but I am very strict about making them all myself, so each one individually is very personal expression of my interests. Collectively I like to think they add up to a sort of cheerful enthusiasm.
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: If Rome and the Romans count as a 'fandom', then that is the out and out winner with c. 30 icons (depending on how far you're prepared to push the theme to include Classical receptions). If not, Doctor Who is next with seven...
AND THE SECOND MOST: ...followed by 6 for various incarnations of Stephen Fry and 5 each for Severus Snape and The Wicker Man.
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Jooster, apparently, by dint of having two. I'm not a massive shipper.
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: NO.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: Yes. I make all my own icons, and very occasionally make them for friends or the general public, too.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: These days, actually, they're not too shabby. And I even have an award to prove it. That's the result of several months spent observing other people's work, reading tutorials (there's a great starter set here) and entering challenges on
dw_icontest. Alas, that community seems to have ground to a halt now, but I've reaped the benefits of it, and am now able to make much better icons. The problem with that, though, is that I now actually think about 90% of my own, older icons are dreadful, including some of the ones I've put in the table above. :-( My ongoing project is to revamp them, so that they're the same basic icons but better executed. However, the time available for doing that just never seems to materialise, and besides I no longer have the original source images for some of them. Oh well, there's no rush.ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Basically annoying. I know I have one (the Tom Baker one above), and use it whenever I get the chance, but that's partly because I wanted to find out how to make them, and partly because he is just TOO SEXAH, and there was no way I was ever going to convey that and get the whole quotation I wanted into one still 100x100 pixel image. One exception amongst 146 is excusable though - what I can't understand is people who have whole collections of almost nothing but animated icons. Especially when they scroll so fast that you can't even tell what is meant to be going on. Sometimes, I actually have to put my hand up to the screen to cover whatever annoying icon is blinking and flashing at me, in order to be able to concentrate on reading the post it's attached to. Gah! Rant over.
Coding can be found here
Click here to view this entry with minimal formatting.
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Date: Thursday, 8 January 2009 12:57 (UTC)Although I do feel the need to defend well made animated icons. Don't get me wrong, some animated Icons I can't bare to look at, and will scroll so as to block them out whilst I read the post if possible. And I mostly hate those icons that are too fast to read, and were clearly made by someone with no graps of changing the frame duration. When I make them I always spend a good while faffing so as to get the timing right. Although I do find it a shame that the quality of the image and/or the speed of the icon is often restricted by LJ's rules on file size.
I also feel the frustration of older icons not being as good as I wish they were. I've replaced or updated most of them, but some I may never get around to, as I don't have the unaltered picture anymore (because it was so long ago that I didn't do that my default) and capping it again would be too much hassle.
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Date: Thursday, 8 January 2009 13:27 (UTC)And oh! for the days when I thought all that was required to make an icon was to crop, resize, and maybe slap on some blocky text, and like you it seemed pointless to keep the original unaltered image. Or possibly not...
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Date: Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:30 (UTC)no subject
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Date: Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:26 (UTC)