Help?

[caragana-leaves.livejournal.com]

I have a question... help me?

I make icons with MSpaint. It's all I've got.

How do you get text on the icons without opening up little text-box things? You know, where you actually pick "text"?

How do you get the font right on to the icon?

Any help would be great, thanks...

Comments

[phloxyloxy.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to help you, but I <3 your icon!

[ladyvivien.livejournal.com]

I use paint too. grrr. And sadly cannot help, although if you want iconmaking software kinda for free, computer magazines often have free trials with photoshop, etc.

[yubsie]

I'm not sure if there IS a way to get text without using a text box, unfortunately.

To get the font right, when you have the text box open, go to "View" and click "Text Toolbar". It'll give you a box that lets you change fonts.

[afufle.livejournal.com]

I don't know why the computer at the library, which seems to have MS paint, lets me do this, but it gives you a selector tool to outline an area of the image and type in the text.

You can leave it in a white area, set the background transparent, and move it around, zoom in and play with it, rearrange letter & words, add various pixels to it. You can outline it with the regular selector tool and float it over to the image.

Try downloading the image as a bitmap, which is the only type of image I can use here:

[afufle.livejournal.com]

Also, try asking over at icon_tutorial. They regularly take questions like this.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest downloading GIMP. It's free, and people say that it's as good as PSP or photoshop, though I can't say if there's truth to that or not as I've never used it. I have much scorn for paint, and think that everyone should move away from it as quickly as possible. But then, I am addicted to fancy programs, so I'm a bit biased.