How to Make a LiveJournal Icon

LiveJournal icons are images used to express the personality of the website's users. If you're a LiveJournal user and don't know how to make LiveJournal icons, read on to get started making LiveJournal icons for your community and personal journal use.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Image
• Image editing or graphics program

1. Find an image you would like to use as a LiveJournal icon.

2. Run an image editing or graphics program. Many LiveJournal icons are made using Photoshop, but freeware like Paint.NET, Serif Photoplus 6.0 and GIMP can also help you make your LiveJournal icon.

3. Open the image in a new canvas.

4. Crop the image down to 100x100 pixels. Keep in mind that the whole image does not have to be scaled down. If you want to use only a portion of the image, crop your preferred part of the image and work with it until it's 100x100 pixels.

5. Copy and paste the new 100x100 image into new canvas.

6. Add effects, textures, borders, decorations or text to the image. The available effects may vary by image editing or graphics program, but experiment until you're satisfied with the way your LiveJournal icon looks.

7. Save the icon as a new image and name your new LiveJournal icon before uploading it to your LiveJournal account.

Tips & Warnings

• Images with high resolutions work best when making LiveJournal icons.
• Search for interesting fonts on the Internet to use on your LiveJournal icon if you want to add text to it.
• LiveJournal has a community dedicated to LiveJournal icon making tutorials.
• Consider watermarking your new LJ icon with your username. This reduces the chances that someone will steal your LiveJournal icon.

Resources

• LiveJournal's Icon Tutorial Community