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[certainthings]

Dear People Who Make Icons,

I just read this "It ususally doesn't take that long for me to make an icon ( 20 -30 minutes) unless I'm trying to get text on it" in a post.

Is this an average thing? Because if an icon isn't coming together for me in about a minute, I scrap it. I cannot imagine spending that kind of time on an icon.

Sincerely,
A person who sometimes makes icons

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[jheaton.livejournal.com]

I'm more of the five minute school, but if the circumstances demand otherwise, I'll take as much time as it takes. The one I'm using on this post took at least an hour, due to the technical demands (likewise, the James K. Polk one took forever), but usually it just takes as long as it takes to crop/resize it and slap a one-pixel black border around it.