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/Edit: OMG WHAT THE HECK ;;;;; THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS!! I got a DD?!!!
This was so unexpected!! Thank yoou for your support guys ;____; And of course thank you for and for featuring it!
Hi guys ^___^
I've re-done my pixel icon tutorial.. there are two parts to this, because it's like, super huge. Haha sorry!!
Part 1 of 2.
Part two is here: fiveonthe.deviantart.com/art/A…
The pixel palette can be found here: www.kawaiihannah.com/pixelart/…
The DA user is:
I've found new methods, ways, tips and tricks that will help you out better than the last tutorial. 
If you think it's hard, give it a try first. I used a tutorial before that was sort of hard to understand, but once I read through it again and again, look where it's brought me 
If you have any questions, anything at all, let me know! <3
FAQ
A note:
PHOTOSHOP: To resize with anti-alias, press CTRL+K (Options/Preferences) and change the option from Bicubic (Smoother) to Nearest Neighbour ^^
-Photoshop CS4: How to change the eraser mode to pencil?
In the tool bar at the top right next to the Brush options is the Mode button with the Pencil, Block and Brush choices for the type of erasing tool.
Photoshop Elements: Where is the pencil tool?
The pencil tool is nested with the brush tool, you can press 'N' to find it. Picture: forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveS…
Thanks for reading ! <3
Examples
You can see more of my icon collection in my gallery .
Art © Fiveonthe
the old version can be seen here: fiveonthe.deviantart.com/art/H…
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Comments: 1006
I shall try this! O.O I have GIMP so lets see how well this works.
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i need to try this! got a feeling im gonna fail epicly though
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so basically you actually have to have artistic skill to do this?!?!?!?!?!!?
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Yeah, yeah. Hey, if I gave you points, would you make me an icon?
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This is great by the way! But why does mine a poor quality than yours? [link]
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Did you optimize it in GIF 128 non-dithered? It looks fine to me ^^
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umm... what does that mean? hehe Doesn't it look choppy? Yours looks so much smoother.
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Hm, if you think the animation is 'choppy' you can try adding more frames of animation to smoothen the animation
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No. Not the animation. I think the figure is. I can see like all the pixels. It doesn't look clean like yours. Somebody told me it's because I have too much color in mine.
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Arigatou ^_^ Your tutorial is the best !! What a great help xD easy to understand . see my 1st pixel icon <<
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Hahah, that's awesome!! It looks so cute!
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thank you! This really helps for my pixel icon!
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What did you use for this? you never said what...
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can you make the backround on sai paint tool transparent? I can't see how
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awww. well I'm screwed :I
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This has been a great help, im so proud of my first icon >w<
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This is really cool :3 I just have a question o3o on the 1600% zoom part, I can't find it on GIMP(the program I use) please if you know if I can do the same with GIMP please tell me how :3 thx!
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Not quite sure with GIMP. You can still normally zoom so I guess you can try that instead. :C
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This tutorial is extremely helpful and definitely got me motivated to make some pixel art! Thank you for making such a clear and concise tutorial. I was actually excited to see at the end that there was a part 2!
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BDb Of course they would be a part 2 hahah; Nice icon!
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Thank you so much for this tutorial again and for the compliment! It was all thanks to your guidance, sempai!
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Thank you very much!
It's really thanks to your awesome tutorial, though <3
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Hey, I was wondering how you can get ImageReady?
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It comes with earlier versions of photoshop - eg. CS and CS2, with the newer versions, the 'imageready' is pretty much found inside of photoshop itself. ^^
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That explains why I don't have it, I have Elements, haha. Thanks!
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This tutorial was so helpful, thanks so much for making it!
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Thanks! Glad it helps ^^
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Thank you for your guide :hearts: :hearts: !
It helped me make a wonderful icon
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This tutorial really help
Used this to create my icon [link]
Thanks again
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Wah nice job! It's LUCY RIGHT?!!!! That's awesome@!!!
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It's actually my OC lol
Her hairstyle a little bit like lucy tho
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Oh ahahahah sorry!! Yeah I mistaken her for Lucy ^^ She's pretty~!!
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Hiii ~
First of all, I want to say Thank You. It helped me alot. But I have a question o __ o
I hope you can help me.
I know it have to be 50x50 and under 15kb... and my picture is already 50x50 and the size is 4,25 KB but dA still can'r resize it :/// I really don't understand it > <
it would be so nice if you could help ~
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HMmm? Resize? It doesn't need to be resized if it's 50x50
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Hmm. I don't know. 
I really don't know what to do now > <
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Sure it's in .GIF, .JPEG or .PNG?
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it's .GIF . __ .
I don't know. It's 50x50 and 5KB but still doesn't work > w <
It's so frustating ://
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That's so strnage.... upload it to sta.sh and link it to me ?
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