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[lobelia321]

Miss! Miss! Hello, badgermonkey!

I tried to follow all of your instructions but of course I'm useless as a manipulatrix and also may have different Photoshop version because the resizing and cropping did not work the way you said it would (note tiny icon size).

Also, the resolution came out as 2750 pixels (!) but when I changed that to 75 (as advised on your sheet), the picture disappeared altogether into a murky blur.

Also, am bad pupil, badbad, because did not use template pics as per instructions but veered into Karldomness. Am now stuck with t'sorry results.

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[badgermonkey.livejournal.com]

:tuts: Using your own pics is for the top set only!

Well, number one thing to try is just resizing the pic: image>image size then choose 100 px by 100. I don't know why your resolution would be that high but that's just mad. Did you actually crop or just resize? If you just shrank a large pic, it's like compressing it instead of cutting it down and that's what would possibly explain the weird sizing; if you crop, you can control the size it crops to and the resolution (also, note, I meant px/inch, not cm. Dunno why I had my version on imperial measurements.)

Er, it's also very dark; play around with the contrast a bit.

I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense but I have a horrid headache and trying to work out the difference between px/inch and px/cm is not making it any better ;)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Now I'm dumb. I just replied to your comment re icon-making but pressed 'post comment', not 'reply' so you won't see it in your email and will, I'm afraid, go to the actual dark-and-murky-icon post and view the comment.

Hope your headache is better.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Um, I also commented as 'anonymous' but you'll know it's me.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

OK, I just solved *one* of my problems. I found the crop tool sizing window (I have to double-click on the crop tool icon; must be a Mac thing).

Am now using predetermined Wainthropp pics. Am very good.

[badgermonkey.livejournal.com]

See, there was a reason for the preset pics! E.g, I knew they were manippable even if you don't want t'icon...

Manipulable?

[(Anonymous)]

Now, on my image resize thiny I cannot make it 100 x 100 pixels. I can change the pixels in the height box and that will automatically change the pixels in the width box. I can click 'constrain proportions' to avoid the automated repixeling but that squashes the image into a weird elongated or squashed-up distorted format.

I don't have a floating crop tool thingy to type into. I only have the crop tool, that box-shaped icon but there's no field to type size into.

The pixels in the image-sizing window are per inch, btw.

I did make the pic 100 x 75 whatever to begin with, using the image-sizing window, and then they shrank to this tiny thumbnail size.

Long-distance tutoring has its problems.