Q&A

[goodbyebird]

Questions & Answers

We had a fair amount of response in the poll, so here is the rumored Q&A post! Any questions you have about graphics, ask away and hopefully someone can help you out. Makers can also make a comment and people can ask them questions specifically - I'll set mine up, feel free to follow that example - and I'll link individual makers as well as question threads in the post when I'm around to edit.

The Request Fest is still open until Sunday evening, so get those requests and fills in.

goodbyebird's question thread
timetobegin's question thread
geckoholic's question thread
hsapiens's question thread
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Who's your most inspirational icon makers?
How do you organize your icon folders?
What are your favorite textures to use?
compressing your icons? (file size too big, smart objects)

Comments

Re: compressing your icons?

[valley]

I have the same problem in PS Elements on Mac. My layers don't have the smart object thumbnail in your PSD mentioned by goodbyebird above, so the problem might have a different source for me.

The only solution I've found so far is to re-open the .png file in Preview and save as/replace the original .png file - that compresses the size, but doesn't lower the visual quality (as far as I can tell, at least).

I'm still looking for an easier solution (/surely/ there is a better way) but that's working for now.

Re: compressing your icons?

[frayadjacent]

Thanks, yes this totally works for me too if I save it as 8-bit rather than 16 bit. Cheers!