How do you do that, you ask? Well it’s easy! Just download this program. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT OR ELSE IT WILL NOT WORK!Īfter you’ve made your GIF, you’re going to need to convert the GIF file into an APNG file.

Choose/make the GIF you want to use and make its dimensions 64 x 64px (by cropping or resizing).

If you want to make your own GIF for your icon, you’re going to need to have Photoshop or Gimp. This is a neat little trick I learned and it allows you to use a GIF as your Tumblr icon. This is how the icon turned out in the end.How to have a GIF as an icon- It’s really easy. You will want to go to file and down to export as.and then pick png.Ī window pops up showing you the icon and you will want to hit the save button! Once again ignore the other image in the corner. Once that is done, all you have to do is save! If you like the way it looks! Position examples are here. Your next step would be to move the screencap to be in the position that you want it. Now click the layer or go to the transform tool (edit, free transform) Next, I adjusted the other coloring folder to my liking I adjusted the basic coloring (the lighting layer as I am calling it right now). When I put the screencap in the canvas, this is what it looks like at this step. Drag it over, copy paste, whatever works for you!) I went and got my screencap (So either out of your screencaps folder or from the gallery itself. So the first folder that I had done was just a basic lighting psd and the second one (which I didn’t show doing) was the real coloring that wasn’t just a curves layer and things. This is what it looks like on the icon tutorial canvas right now! I will move the folder under the border (so that way the border doesn’t end up changing colors). Anyways, same as the border layer! Do the same thing! I was screencapping as I was going and my screencaps show up in the corner for a second. Please ignore the thing over on the side. Go over and click the folder with the adjustments in it and right click (Or for me it was just hitting alt on the keyboard while clicking the folder) My coloring psd is open in another tab now. The next step is to open up my psd so go to the file and go down and open and find the coloring psd that you like. Now I have two layers one being the white background and the other being my border. The box that pops up is asking where this layer is going so we go and pick the icon tutorial one and hit ok I went over to the other open tab that I had with my icon border in it and hit the alt button (On a Chromebook computer) and went up to the duplicate into and not the duplicate layer This is what it looks like when I open up a blank canvas of 100x100 in size. If you need help picking a size of icon to use, look at this post for reference to icon sizes. Make your canvas size whatever size you want your icons to be. Screencap, first coloring psd, second coloring psd, icon border, editing website, tutorial maker This process is not fast, it isn’t the best way to do icons but if you don’t have photoshop or are using a Chromebook (like I am, you can’t have photoshop on it) this is the only way to make your own icons. All you need is photopea open, a coloring psd, a border, and a screencap plus some patience! Today, I am going to show you how to do icons in photopea (A free website).

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