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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

Comments

[katysam.livejournal.com]

Some icons take longer than others but I don't think I've ever spent more than 10 minutes on a single icon (without text).

If I add text, it can take a ridiculous amount of time on top of that to complete it. But I think that's due to the ridiculous amount of fonts I have accumulated. I'm a font junkie.

The most time consuming part of iconing, besides finding the perfect text, is making the screen caps. Or at least it is for me. I find that part a part terribly tedious and admire those people who post screen caps covering each episode. I wonder if they have a magic 'screen cap' program they use.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

So far it seems everyone takes more time when there's text involved, I know I do but I rarely use text because I am not good with it Al, not good at all. I wonder if there are any icon makers out there who are brilliant at the text and can make it look good in a matter of moments?

I don't know that I'd consider the screencapping process part of the icon making but I suppose that technically it is, eh?