icon-o-riffic

[solipsistnation]

Given my laptop (with Photoshop) and any image that scales reasonably well, I can give you a 100x100 LJ icon within about 30 seconds. Right now, in fact, I have a little stash of icons I'm not using. If anyone wants to use one of them, let me know and go for it...

Comments

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Oooh - could you grab this http://tivo.com/resources/images/tivowith.psd and make an icon from it? I want a new icon for tivolovers but this is a Photoshop format image and I lack the tools to iconify it. It probably isn't square so I'd just make the largest dimension 100 and let the other scale in proportion.

Thanks.

(OH - I've had a xmas gifty thing for you and Ford that I keep forgetting to give you. I had it at the last gathering we were all at, and then last night at the Shoe... Sunday I'd better remember...)

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Oh - that comes from here http://tivo.com/resources/ca_downloads.htm

There is also 'TiVo Logo with outline' if that works better. (It is for a black background so I'm trying to find something with the background transparent that could work on different dark backgrounds.)

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Okay, give me a minute to give it a try. I'll see what I can do. 8)

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Well, shoot, THAT was easy. 8)

And that'll give you incentive to come to dinner Sunday...

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Hmm, Mozilla is unhappy:

The image “http://www.gweep.net/~mute/pics/tivo-lj.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Uhhhhh. Okay.

It displays in everything else I can run here. I bet it's mozilla being lame.

Can you wget it and display it that way, or otherwise download it?

Weird. I used photoshop, the same as everything else...

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

IE also gives me the 'red x' icon instead of the image. I'll download it and see what Gimp says about it.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Gimp will open it - but the colors are gone. The TiVo dude is B&W, all the letters are white, etc. And the background looks like pale blue instead of transparent. Looks like color data got munged.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Okay, the color data _DID_ get munged. I'll get the original photoshop doc and look at it again.

OOOOh, I see what they did. Okay, there are multiple layers in this document, and each one is a separate entire logo. One is color, one is mono...

I don't know why you thought there was supposed to be a transparent background... Aside from .jpgs not doing transparent, that document has a blue background in the little image there and in the document itself...

All right-- I have learned NEW THINGS! Go me! Dig if you will this picture!

4K, gif, transparent background, white glow, so mr. tivo will stand out Against A Dark Background (by Iain Banks-- recommended), and all that. Give it a try whenever you drag yourself out of bed, please? 8)

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, JPEGs don't do transparent, but I thought since they said 'for dark background' than the PSD wouldn't have its own background.

I got it - looks good. Thanks!

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

I just sort of generically ran mogrify on it. Try now?

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Same URL? Seems to have the same problem. Eh. Don't worry about it, I don't want to be a pain.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Weird.

I dunno. It looks okay on my Mac. I'm sure that means it's a Mozilla problem.

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[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

No - it doesn't work in Moz or IE, and the colors are gone in The Gimp.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Weird.

Well, I exported it using "Save For Web," if you want to check again. Strange.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Fails for me on a recent latest-trunk Firebird. It actually crashed IE for me. It works in QuickTime, however. This is Win2K, btw.

Try making it a PNG, maybe.

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

I like the Elite one....memories of many happy hours playing that game. Magic!

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hoped somebody would notice that. 8)