Icon Making

[heedicalking]

When making Icons, they always come out blurry and look terrible, this is probably because I scale them down. Is there an Icon making tutorial anywhere?

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[heedicalking]

Here is an example of one of my icons, you can see what is wrong. The white around the edges. This is how I make mine:
I render it in blender, then I go into paint.net and magic wand the sides. Then I scale it down to 64x64

[heedicalking]

Wrong file. I accidently uploaded the CI instead of the icon.

[Narkro555]

A frying pan? Oooohhhh somebody's gonna be mad...

[goz3rr]

The icon looks fine to me..

[Freeze]

I think its fine too.

[Deathwishez]

Maybe you should add that cicle thingy in the background.

[Makanix]

Make a greenscreen ingame. Use green glow print bricks. Take a screenshot of the angle you want. Open paint.net and magic wand the background out. It makes a perfect image with no white pixels around it. If the item is green, I use red.

EDIT: And about the trans circle. This is what I do:

-open the default icon of any item.
-Eyedrop the color of the circle.
-Add a new layer.
-Use the paintbrush tool and adjust the size to the same as the circle. Click once to paint the circle.
-Select the whole document and copy.
-Clear everything on that document and remove all layers. You want a blank trans document.
-Paste the trans circle you made. Then add a new layer.
-copy and paste your Item image into the new layer. Resize and move it to where you want.
-Merge the layers. Save as.

Note: when resizing your image, when you shrink it, then make it big again, it will become blurry. Undo and try again if this happens.

[heedicalking]

Can someone post a .png of just the circle in the background?

[Makanix]

Here:

[Dy mar]

my icos are no better. i do the same thing but mine are all shaded on the sides: i can never get the lighting to work...

personally I think that ico is just as good as the defaults.

[Devvy]

Made you the icon.