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[amedia]

I've made my first attempt at icon-making! Another sign that pocketwitch has succeeded in pimping me into the LJ community hook, line, and sinker!

People like elke_tanzer and gblvr were so kind to make them for me - it didn't really occur to me that I could try making one myself until just recently.

I took along a camera to my son's recent belt-test at the dojo where we both study taijutsu. I was only going to take pictures of his test, but I had nearly a roll to use up and couldn't resist snapping a few shots of the other people who were testing that night. A picture of cirobi came out especially well, so I cropped it, put the words "badass ninja babe" on it, and sent it to her.

Then after I turned off the computer and went to bed, I kept worrying, "I forgot to check properties - what if it's too many k? What if there's an etiquette rule I don't know about, against posting icons with people's actual faces on them? What if...?" Then I fell asleep. The nice thing about ADD is that I can't concentrate on *anything* for too long, include things to worry about. :-)

The icon - and her reaction, which was immensely gratifying and sweet - can be seen here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/cirobi/184019.html

Comments

Re: animated gif freeware

[pocketwitch.livejournal.com]

Okay, I was a *little* off - it's free to evaluate (you can use it 50 times before it shuts down) but if you want to buy it, it's only $8. I plan to buy it at some point - that's a reasonable price and it's a very good bit of software. But you can use it a bunch before having to pay.

You can find it here!

Another step down that primrose path

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Pocketwitch, you are now officially Queen of Da Pimpz! It took a while for the "animated gif" seed you planted to flower - but now look!