get off my lawn, part 1e38

[serinde]

I want better iconnage. However, my l33t graphics sk1llz are limited to Zog Crop Picture, Zog Resize Picture, and MY TEXT IZ PASTEDE ON YAY!. I've tried several times to embark on a glorious learning spree of layers and filters and shadows and animated GIFs and lord knows what, but I'm drinking from a fire hose and after about ten minutes my eyes have glazed over and I slink off to do something easy, like, I don't know, custom sendmail rules.

There are tutorials. Oh my yes, are there ever tutorials. There are so many tutorials, my eyes glaze over just trying to parse the enormous list of them. I don't need much, just some basic functionality of "here is how we make text look like it's part of the picture", "here is how to make a basic animated icon". Where, O where shall I find my grail-shaped beacon?

My stomach is upset, but I'm fairly sure that's unrelated.

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[kalimar.livejournal.com]

Basic animated LJ icon "tutorial" (this assumes the use of 'The Gimp' image tool):

1) Create new image of appropriate size.
2) Add second layer
3) Paste second image into layer.
4) Add third layer
5) Paste third image into layer
6) Repeat until you have the 'right' number of layers.
7) Save image as 'gif'. When prompted, select to save it as an animation. Input delay between layer changes. Save.
8) Observe thine l33t !m4g3 sk!11z

[kalimar.livejournal.com]

the above is how I made this w!ck4d l33t sudoku icon.