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Post by Adam Iser »

wunderwood wrote: If adium is rely so much better than yahoo, than why is the emoticon eatting the duck? :wink:
I picture it as the duck about to rip its way out of the emoticon like a chick from an egg :D
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Adam Iser wrote:I picture it as the duck about to rip its way out of the emoticon like a chick from an egg :D
In that case a crack in the side of the emoticon with a duck wing sticking out would be even funnier.
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Post by conceptbravery »

ill make no excuses...
it would be a lot cooler of the duck were eating yahoo!... truth of the matter is, im not that great of a graphic designer.. haha..

i do what i can.

having the duck break out of the emoticon is easy enough.. ill try that later tonight.

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well i drew adium breaking out of yahoo as if it were an egg... it looks good enough at 500x500.. but when you shrink it down to the necessary 48 x 48 it loses a lot of of quality and just looks like mush, and at 16x16 its really just a blob of colour... but nonetheless, it's what you requested...

Image | Image

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lol! That's really good, I like it.
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conceptbravery wrote: Image | Image
you see how you drew the adium duck. could you male a dock icon out of it?
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I know this a bit late, but my icon set for SVN 0.8 has already a butterfly icon for msn.

http://www.ravijo.net/documents/RavIcons.zip
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conceptbravery wrote:well i drew adium breaking out of yahoo as if it were an egg... it looks good enough at 500x500.. but when you shrink it down to the necessary 48 x 48 it loses a lot of of quality and just looks like mush, and at 16x16 its really just a blob of colour... but nonetheless, it's what you requested...

Image | Image

// jared
It looks cool. Good job.
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ravijo wrote:I know this a bit late, but my icon set for SVN 0.8 has already a butterfly icon for msn.

http://www.ravijo.net/documents/RavIcons.zip
well.. you beat me to it! and it looks very nice! i wish i would have seen yours first!

and yes, i could turn the drawing of the duck into a dock icon, but i don't know how to create a dock icon for adium yet... anyone know of a tutorial to teach me?

i basically just drew the duck in Illustrator with some different shading

thanks

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conceptbravery wrote:and yes, i could turn the drawing of the duck into a dock icon, but i don't know how to create a dock icon for adium yet... anyone know of a tutorial to teach me?
Download a dock icon, control-click on the package, choose "Show package contents" and have a look around. It's dead simple.
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conceptbravery wrote:i got bored so i drew this... wouldn't this look better instead of the current msn icon?
jared
I wanna see what you've done, but the images never seem to load for me. :(

Alright guys, I'm trying to research all these im clients to make the icons and I just need to know, is there a site for Gadu-gadu that's in English?!


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Lysistrata wrote:
conceptbravery wrote:i got bored so i drew this... wouldn't this look better instead of the current msn icon?
jared
I wanna see what you've done, but the images never seem to load for me. :(

Alright guys, I'm trying to research all these im clients to make the icons and I just need to know, is there a site for Gadu-gadu that's in English?!


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evands wrote:There GNU Gadu for whatever that's worth :)
Hey, it's better than nothin' :) Thanks.

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the images won't load? that's so odd... they're just PNGs, as long as yer not using IE/win you should be fine...

if you want to download the files and open them in Preview or something...

http://www.conceptbravery.com/msn.png
http://www.conceptbravery.com/msn-small.png
http://www.conceptbravery.com/yahoo.png
http://www.conceptbravery.com/yahoo-small.png
http://www.conceptbravery.com/yahoo2.png
http://www.conceptbravery.com/yahooduck.png
http://www.conceptbravery.com/yahooduck-small.png


and... im getting started on that dock icon

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Post by Son of a Preacher Man »

The Yahoo icon is a bit glassy - vaguely 3d. Any chance you could give the msn butterfly a few hints of depth, to match?

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brilliant!
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I like the gnu gadu icon for gadu-gadu :D
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