Harry Potter Icons
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darsynia28 various Harry Potter icons, some 'shippy, some themed for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
100_anything (I claimed GoF) scattered in there as well. I did a few for some of the bases because I liked them so much. I managed to forget poor Rita in my actual table listing, she must have been in beetle form when I was compiling links...
9 random HP, 5 H/Hr, 4 Dumbledore, 5 V/Hr, 5 Cedric/Hermione
+ Feel free to use, but please credit me
+ Comments are so wonderfully lovely!
+ No hotlinking, please! Even Photobucket gets mad sometimes
+ Resource list for brushes, textures, gradients, and screencaps are in my userinfo
Previews:
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The 'Morsmordre' icon was a happy accident--I had a base I wasn't too happy with so I duped it, flipped it, and stuck it on top of itself, only to discover that when Draco's head overlapped it looked like a skull...the only changes I made to it was to add a snake and the lettering, it looked *exactly* like that when I overlapped it in the first place. *shivers*
100_anything (I claimed GoF) scattered in there as well. I did a few for some of the bases because I liked them so much. I managed to forget poor Rita in my actual table listing, she must have been in beetle form when I was compiling links...9 random HP, 5 H/Hr, 4 Dumbledore, 5 V/Hr, 5 Cedric/Hermione
+ Feel free to use, but please credit me
+ Comments are so wonderfully lovely!
+ No hotlinking, please! Even Photobucket gets mad sometimes
+ Resource list for brushes, textures, gradients, and screencaps are in my userinfo
.:|:. .:|:. Filch/Mrs. Norris
themed, 'tears'
Know-it-All
themed, 'gold'
Pwned
themed, 'blue'
Morsmordre
Trio 1
Trio 2
H/Hr 1
H/Hr 2
H/Hr 3
H/Hr 4
H/Hr 5
Dumbledore 1
themed, 'magic'
Dumbledore 3
Dumbledore 4
themed, 'crush'
V/Hr 2
V/Hr 3
V/Hr 4
V/Hr 5
Cedric/Hermione 1
Cedric/Hermione 2
Cedric/Hermione 3
Cedric/Hermione 4
Cedric/Hermione 5
The 'Morsmordre' icon was a happy accident--I had a base I wasn't too happy with so I duped it, flipped it, and stuck it on top of itself, only to discover that when Draco's head overlapped it looked like a skull...the only changes I made to it was to add a snake and the lettering, it looked *exactly* like that when I overlapped it in the first place. *shivers*
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Date: 2006-05-31 01:13 am (UTC)Wonderful work!
(Where's Remus? and Sirius? lol)
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Date: 2006-05-31 07:20 pm (UTC)/sniffle Remus and Sirius... well, I TRIED to do a photomanip of Remus/Hermione but all of his images are SO dark and most of hers are light, and the coloring just ended up looking too surreal for my tastes. I need to find more screencaps of both of them, I think. As for Sirius, I haven't gotten to him yet--the only images in my HP folder for him are... a photoshoot for Laura Ashley? Great pics,
Most of my icons from hereout will be from Goblet of Fire until I finish my claim at
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Date: 2006-05-31 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-31 07:23 pm (UTC)I'm glad that folks like the Morsmordre one, I liked the concept
but it freaks me out.icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-05-31 02:22 pm (UTC)Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-05-31 07:16 pm (UTC)Ok, so on some forums they don't allow you to upload your avatar or icon to their website. Instead, you have to host it online somewhere like Photobucket or your own webspace. When this happens, every time someone loads that icon, they're using bandwidth from THAT site rather than the forum site. When you sign up for your own personal webspace, you're usually given a set chunk that is allowed to be uploaded from your site every month. Any time images you're hosting on that space is loaded anywhere, it uses a small bit of that.
So, for example, say you found an icon you liked a lot and decide to use it on a very popular forum site. What you should do is download the image to your computer, and then host it on Photobucket or your own website. If you went to the forum site and gave the URL of the image that you found on LJ instead of doing this, that's called a 'hotlink.'
Hotlinking is considered unfair because the whole point of people's webspace being theirs is violated when people they don't know use up their bandwidth. So, that's why you'll see people like
I hope that was a coherent explanation! I tend to have a bad habit of assuming people know what I mean, so if I used a phrase or a word that was confusing, don't hesitate to ask! I won't be upset, I want to help you understand :) Also if there are any other terms that you find confusing in any way, feel free to ask me about them, I'd love to help out. It can be frustrating when you don't know what something means but you don't want to ask for fear of losing anyone's respect. You won't lose mine, I promise.
Oh! And thanks for the compliment about the icons!
Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-01 05:21 am (UTC)Thanks for the explanation *very grateful* cause I'm still really new to all of this, I'm not quite sure what some of the words mean, so I've decided to seek your help again :) ... but I think that on the whole I've kind of got it... let me check.
People who take your icons are usually not allowed to hotlink because if they do so, they can use up some of your bandwidth (which you have a set capacity of? What is bandwidth exactly?) which isn't a good thing, especially as they don't actually know who it is that's using up their bandwidth.
If you use Photoshop to upload photos, can people still hotlink and will that affect bandwidth for Photoshop?
Is saving an icon to your computer from another person's webpage counted as hotlinking?
Damn, I sound so ignorant lol *shakes head ruefully* thanks so much for helping out, and you're right, it's a bit hard to ask sometimes as some people get annoyed when you ask if you don't understand or know anything =P it's kind of awkward and embarassing sometimes... would you mind if I came to you to ask advice or help on stuff in the future? If you get annoyed of it you can always feel free to tell me - i won't mind :)
Anyway, thanks a bunch, I appreciate it a lot!
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Date: 2006-06-01 05:47 am (UTC)Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-01 06:21 am (UTC)You explained it very well and in only one sentence! I took what? 3 paragraphs? I'd say you've got it down pat!
Never apologize for asking me stuff, it's fun to answer questions! /blush I wish I knew everything. Just the other day I ended up having to ask what an RPF fanfic was from someone I have a lot of respect and awe for...
BTW 'RPF' stands for Real Person Fic. Basically it would mean writing a Harry Potter story where Daniel Radcliffe showed up as himself. Generally frowned on for serious fanfiction archive sites, but it has its place.
Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-01 06:17 am (UTC)-Bandwidth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth)has a lot of different definitions, but for this case, it is a way to measure time spent online (which is really an oversimplification). Every time you load a page (like my journal), you're loading images and text--each image, though, has to come from somewhere. In the toolbar at the top of the page (or at the top of your desktop, if you have a Mac), there's 'File,' 'Edit,' 'View,' etc... In 'View,' you can choose 'view source.' This is the HTML code for the page--and in that code, it tells any web browser that is trying to load the page where to find the images. Each image takes up a certain size (and I'm not very good at explaining the increments of measurement, so forgive me if I don't go into that).
When your computer takes the images from wherever they're hosted so they can display on your computer, it's downloading whatever size they are--and if you're using a private hosting service, they usually record how much is downloaded from you each month. Places like Photobucket aren't picky about that (I don't THINK they are, anyway), but sites like Geocities in yahoo are.
Quoted from wikipedia: In website hosting bandwidth is the amount of information downloadable from the webserver over a prescribed period of time. In essence it is the rate [data/time], but the time in this case is not seconds but rather a month or a week. So this rate is not like 56K or broadband etc which are also bandwidth but are measured per seconds. Web hosting companies often quote a monthly bandwidth limit for a website, for example 2GB/month. If visitors to the website downloaded a total of 2GB in one month, the bandwidth limit would have been exceeded.
Photoshop is an image creation program, and I don't think it allows you to upload directly from it. What you're doing is saving the image on your hard drive (usually in .gif or .jpg form). People can't directly connect to your computer--so what you have to do is upload it somewhere. Livejournal allows you to upload a certain amount of icons to their space (I think), the # depending on what type of account you have. Paid accounts I'm sure help pay for the bandwidth used loading them.
Saved to your hard disk is not hotlinking :) A step by step example of hotlinking would be right clicking on an image, telling it to load in a seperate page, then copying the URL of that page and using that url to display the image somewhere else, like {img src="blah"/}.
Don't get down on yourself--we all have to learn this stuff somewhere! I married a computer science person, that's how I learned it all. Trust me when I tell you it's a lot worse asking someone you have a crush on and who you're worried will think less of you for not knowing than it is asking someone on livejournal! Luckily he was gracious in his answers...
I would be honored if you asked my advice or questions. It makes me feel very special to get to help other people :)
*picks an appropriate icon...*
Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-01 06:23 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_theft
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Date: 2006-06-01 06:35 am (UTC)Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-02 06:29 am (UTC)Umm... I want to post some of the fics that I have written on my lj account, I read the help section on lj-cuts but when I tried it out, it provided a link to my work, but it also had all the other writing that I'd written for my journal entry which I hadn't included inside my and html command. The entire fic was also included in my journal entry which was what I'd been trying to avoid, and I can't find a way to delete my journal entry now... argh!
Any advice? *hopeful eyes*
Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-02 06:46 am (UTC)One problem I've found with live journal cuts is that if you copy and paste from Word, sometimes Word adds 'fancy' quotations, and LJ doesn't recognize them for code.
-Two types of livejournal cuts:
--1) {lj-cut} {/lj-cut}
(This will demonstrate as a link that will look like this: ( Read more... ) (http://darsynia.livejournal.com/19032.html))
--2) {lj-cut text="This is an example of text in a lj cut"} {/lj-cut}
(This will demonstrate as a link, with the text you provide. Please do note that bold, underline, and italics tags won't work inside a lj-cut. Demonstration: ( This is an example of text in a lj cut ) (http://darsynia.livejournal.com/19032.html))
-The problem you seem to be having is that you didn't end your LJ-cut tag. I do this all the time in comments, and because you can't edit them, I feel like a 'tard, lol. The good thing is, you can edit your stuff, even if your journal or the one you're posting in doesn't have an obvious 'EDIT ME HERE' kind of link.
--Helpful tips on editing, deleting, and tagging entries:
1) You will *always* be able to edit your entries, unless you are trying to edit posts in a community you are no longer a member in. If you can't see the little pencil icon that stands for 'edit entry,' click on 'post comment.' You should now see the little pencil icon up there, along with the heart for memories and the tag for tagging.
2) To delete you entry, you click on 'edit' and at the very bottom under the box that has the text of your post in it, there's four buttons. 'Save entry,' 'Delete entry,' 'Spell check,' and 'Preview.'
3) Tags are really helpful in keeping organization, and some communities require you to use them when posting. To tag your entries in your own journal, just click the tagging tool, and then type in the tags you want to refer to your entry (no limit, afaik), separated by commas, just like the interests in your userinfo. To choose multiple tags from the list of already created ones, there's a button you hold down (there should be instructions for that), which is the 'command' key on Mac computers (I can't remember what it is for PC, sorry). It's usually good to add tags from your list before typing in any additional ones, because sometimes the hand-typed ones poof when you start choosing from a list.
Community managers can choose whether members can create new tags or not. If you can't create new tags, all you'll be able to do is pick from the list. Always check to make sure the tag you want to create (if you're allowed to create any) isn't already in the list before you go to create a new one, because I'm not sure the software recognizes duplicates.
Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-02 06:49 am (UTC)Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-02 06:54 am (UTC)Sorry!
Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-02 07:03 am (UTC)Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-02 07:10 am (UTC)I'm just conjecturing here, but I guess the program you use to upload has a space for what shows up on the main page, then a space for what shows behind the cut, and then another space for anything after the cut?
Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-02 07:25 am (UTC)Btw, if you don't mind me asking, did you join HogwartsHarmony? And if you did, what house were you sorted into?
And how do you post an application? I've got the form but i can't find a button that will let me put it in a new post =(
Re: icon-y appreciation
Date: 2006-06-02 07:34 am (UTC)I don't know anything about any upload program at all, so I can't answer your question :(
Are you trying to post to
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