woah. really?

[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

[vileseagulls.livejournal.com]

Whut? I have macros set up in Photoshop - I find a crop that looks nice, hit two buttons to run all my colouring, if it doesn't work, delete or reduce effects as necessary, and call it quits. One to two minutes tops, if it's being stubborn. If it really doesn't work, hit undo and run the OTHER set of colouring macros, repeat process.

What were they DOING that took so much time? I mean I don't use brushes, but I've played with them, and I can't by any means justify twenty minutes even with that.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I tried an action thingy before, I didn't care for it that much.

I don't use brushes or at least not very often because I'm not good with them but uh yeah, I'm not sure what these people are doing. A lot of fiddling would be my guess.