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[karenor]

reading icon tutorials makes me want to cry. i just don't even begin to understand and i feel so stupid. today i spent about an hour and a half trying to figure out wth a path was, and how to make one out of the spirally thing i made. and having figured that out, i spent about another hour trying to figure out how to put text on that path thingy before giving up.

THEN i started reading some of the tutorials that alannahrose sent me. its like either too simple or too complicated. i don't understand layers one bit. well i do, but not how to work with them. i can make a layer of say a solid color...but i can't figure out how to arrange layers or anything like that. meh. i'm useless. and here i am with a paid account and only two new icons, cuz i'm determined to makes them myself (and one of the new ones i didn't even make, i found it on a website, that said i could take if i wanted so i took [that's the tori one]).

fooey.

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[alannahrose.livejournal.com]

I can help! I "get" layers, at least. What do you want to do with them?

I hope my links didn't irritate you. I know they were from a variety of experience levels. I just sent you pretty much everything I had bookmarked... plus, browsing through icon_tutorial helps a lot.

PS--You can't make a text path on PS. Chris and I spent all night last week trying to figure out how to do that based on a tutorial someone posted for PSP. But apparently the brand new edition of PS allows you to do that. Of course.

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[alannahrose.livejournal.com]

PS--If you'll notice, about 99% of the icons I use are not made by me. So you should check out some icon communities if you want new pretty icons, and then learn and practise in the meanwhile. <3

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[karenor.livejournal.com]

about layers...i dunno what i want to do with them, i just want to be able to make stuff with them. its just frustrating cuz it looks simple, but isn't.

your links weren't annoying! they were helpful. its just my lack of patience and unwillingness to actually learn anything that isn't easy right off the bat. ;)

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[alannahrose.livejournal.com]

That's interesting that layers are frustrating you. That's like the only thing I have a firm grasp on. Text frustrates the crap out of me. It never looks good or does what I want it to. I downloaded a ton of fonts and then when I go to try them out on icons, they look gawd awful.

I'm with you on lack of patience. I started with a kind of advanced tutorial and kept getting pissed off... Chris was just shaking his head at me. I told him it was too bad that my ambition surpassed my abilities and patience.