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Where do people find icons?

Coz I struggle, I really do. How do people manage to find nice new ones every few weeks or so? Is there a secret you peeps aren't telling me?? Plz halp.
 ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
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Riku114 said:
Oh most of us that change it so often make the icons ourselves.

If you ever find an image you want to be an icon I could always make it for you. XD Ive made probably near a thousand or so icons by now. I really enjoy making them

But essentially you search up whatever you want an icon of, you find an image that you think would make a good icon, take it to some kind of editting software (or paint if you dont plan to do much to it), and at the very least, crop the image to be the size you need it to be (square)

You can get more creative with it the more your practice too

I usually used link to edit and crop and all cause its like Photoshop but online free and has no downloads. Not as good as Photoshop but definitely plenty enough.
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Oh most of us that change it so often make the icons ourselves.

If you ever find an image you want to be an icon I could always make it for you. XD Ive made probably near a thousand or so icons by now. I really enjoy making them

But essentially you search up whatever you want an icon of, you find an image that you think would make a good icon, take it to some kind of editting software (or paint if you dont plan to do much to it), and at the very least, crop the image to be the size you need it to be (square)

You can get more creative with it the more your practice too

I usually used https://pixlr.com/editor/ to edit and crop and all cause its like Photoshop but online free and has no downloads. Not as good as Photoshop but definitely plenty enough.
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Either that or you could just find someone who posts a lot of icons that are up for grabs. Like I doubt any of my interest overlaps with yours, but i honestly have like a thousand icons posted in my club that I say anyone is allowed to use as long as they credit it in the gallery
Riku114 posted over a year ago
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Pixlr is the one I use as well. There are a lot of good editors though.
zanhar1 posted over a year ago
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^It is pretty good isnt it? XD
Riku114 posted over a year ago
Wolfpaw6 said:
lets see go on the Internet find something awesome upload it and then you got yourself an awesome icon
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Illuminating. (the internet is a big place, bruh)
ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
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I know but you know you have found the right icon it will stick out as the lightsaber would with its rightful owner
Wolfpaw6 posted over a year ago
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Haha dw ik what you meant ('twas joking), this is how I usually do it too.
ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
TheLefteris24 said:
Well, most of the time I find them ready on the web but when there isn't a specific one I want, I just download the image and crop the outer parts making the icon !!!!
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monsterbiscuits said:
most of the time, i usually use google. for example: "_____ icon", but there's a likely chance that you won't get what you want. a good example would be for certain games, like Overwatch or Witcher. if you search "overwatch icons", a majority of the results would be in-game buttons or player icons, when you wanted something specific.

usually, when i don't get the results i want, i search something different, like "overwatch tracer" or find screencaps/fanart of a certain thing you want (permission might be needed if you search for fanart). if you find something you like, use it!

if you like the entire image, and feel like it's good enough to use as an icon, then there's your icon!

although, if there's a small portion of the image you like, crop it! i know people might use pixlr or some other kind of photoshop, but i just use ms paint because that's easier for me. if you use ms paint, and the small portion you like ISN'T in the top-left corner, then use "select" (drop-down menu) on the editing toolbar, and choose "select all" which allows you to move the image and resize (but i don't recommend you to resize in ms paint because it usually ends up losing it's quality). you always have to move what you like to the top-left corner for some reason.

then, you crop the rest of the image to the small portion you wanted! if you want, you can use some photo editing program or site, like pizap, pixlr, or picmonkey (i mostly like picmonkey, but it has a watermark, so leave a little bit of a white uncropped area on the picture, and then crop that part out)

hope this helped, and i hope it wasn't too complicated!
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Thanks! Nah 'twas helpful. And lol I hate that google image icon problem.
ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
BlindBandit92 said:
Riku pretty much summed it up but. I either use Livejournal, Tumblr,Photobucket,etc for my icons.

Sometimes I make them. I have a pretty cool photo viewer I downloaded that doubles as an editor as well. The one I have currently isn't created by me though.

Here's one I did create.
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Riku pretty much summed it up but. I either use Livejournal, Tumblr,Photobucket,etc for my icons.

Sometimes I make them. I have a pretty cool photo viewer I downloaded that doubles as an editor as well. The one I have currently isn't created by me though.

Here's one I did create.
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Omg that looks siiiik. You people really make me want to give it a wack myself, lol. Seems fun.
ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
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^Go for it. It's really fun.
BlindBandit92 posted over a year ago
zanhar1 said:
I usually go on google lol. If not I make it myself.
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boytoy_84 said:
I usually make them myself. I type link on Google and I go on this site and link and I create any pics I want as an icon.
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Thanks for the links!
ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
Nick3600 said:
<--- right here
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Harpaw8 said:
My icon is of my character~ so I get art of my character and make it into icons
But thats just me
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Kragfan1910 said:
www.bing.com/images
link
link

Make sure safe search is on
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