Crop Job

[forchancookie]

I was just in a community and someone had posted their icons with a note that "textless icons are not bases". You know what I have to say to that? Bases are not textless icons! ZOMG What?! Yeah, if you took a screenshot and cropped an image down to 100x100, it's not an icon. It's just a base. With no border, no text, no personalization, it's just a 100x100 picture, but I don't really think it's an icon just because you cropped it. I know everyone's thoughts on this stuff is different. It's like going "What is art?" except it's "What is an icon?" To me, an icon is something you took a little time on that expresses your personality in some way, be it through how you tweaked it to what you wrote on it. If you didn't make it, your choice of icons still says something about you. Ah well, I guess I'm just something of an icon elitist. But really, don't get your panties in a bunch when you make a 100x100 picture that isn't even a good focus or crop job and someone else feels the need to fix it up.

Comments

[tomoe-daeva.livejournal.com]

Not really. Actually the important thing in an icon is the picture, better, the "frame".
It's like the job a director, choosing a determined point of view for a pic.
In addition to this there are textless icons what have color filters or other thingies that show the work of the "iconist" (XD).
Don't you hate when people take those icons and add their crappy text in a hideous color on them, treating them as bases?

After all there's basic difference between "bases" and "textless icons": is the person who takes the screenshot/crop them to specify the difference.
When someone says "Texteless icons are not bases" he/she means in the current posted batch, not in the whole universe >_>;

[forchancookie.livejournal.com]

-_- I know that. I'm saying their "textless icons" were no more than bases. They weren't being all artsy there, it really was just a bunch of tiny cropped photos and they weren't even focused well. It was an awful batch of "icons" and if you're not going to put effort into it, don't pass it off as something it isn't.

Dae always has to step in and be the smarty pants doesn't she? *bops you*