Icon making

Icon making

i know im a noob but how to you make icons (from start to finish)

To make an icon, start out by exporting any icon from the mpq files that come with Warcraft III by using Warcraft 3 Viewer or Wc3 Image Extractor II (go to the tool page on this site). Then you just customize the picture however you want (as long as it stays 64x64). Then just import it.

Here is how you do them in my way:
1) Start from scratch, never copy and paste... Be more original
2) Start out with lines, with a black background, and the line will be the basic color of your image(meaning color that is commonly seen)
3) Fill up the whole thing with Paint Bucket tool
4) Add details, like eyes, mouth and such with lines, of dark colors.
5) Fill them up with colors again.
6) Shade them with burn tool, burn especially the lines, with a 20% Midtones burn tool.
7) Dodge where the lights are, again, 20% Midtones
Add further details as you wish.
9) Smudge along the lines, making them blend in.
10) Save your work and convert.

And yes, this poll isn't needed, I don't see why you make a poll here.

Finding Icon

Yes... But how the hell do you find the icons.. both of you forgot that,,, Were do they lay....

It's not very hard to find icons IF you know where to search. I use D&D galleries and anything that has some kind of link with WC or WOW.

Everyone should try freehand iconing instead of copy or paste or manual recolour
Its good practice!

If only we were good at drawing with a mouse...

Mac is good for drawing freehand icons.

Sopho even created starter templates. But I wonder why they put the "Copy-Paste" tool in IrfanView, because the only thing that it does is taking the part of the image, you can' t just insert a picture in another like PhotoShop. I need to use network connection between the 2 computers... Oh my god... Here we go again...

I do this if necessary:

Crop sections of an large picture and save them
Create a appropriate size for the sections of the picture in paint shop pro.
Open up the sections of the cropped picture.
Select one of them, copy, paste onto the large blank template (do it (the amount of cropped sections) times)
Try to attach them or customize them for a good image.

Hum. But I can' t afford of getting Paint Shop Pro, or maybe it' s on the other computer' s database... Hum, by the way, is PhotoShop enough for making icons? When I import the Icon Template on it, it just says "invalid path". Oh god, I' m so stupid... .Blp extensions are Wc3 filepaths... Ouch!

Photoshop or paint shop pro can do icons. They compete basically. You must fist convert the .blp to a supported imaage format for photoplus to work on. Wc3 Viewer or Image Extractor II does the job.

*.tga is the best format to be edited in photoshop and paintshop pro...

Screnshots are also taken in *.tga files

Hum yeah but my screenshot files don' t work on the site, it requires JPG files, I convert my .Tga in .Jpg, but it doesn' t show, as for my gold wyrm skin (skins section), my first skin .

Okay laterz.