FACES . SYMBOLS . DRAWING . DOWNSIZING . MAKING PHONE PICS . ICONS
Drawing facial expressions .
. . SITE MAP 
Don't send a picture the size of a poster to show at the size of a stamp
Size before you send. Some little pictures aren't as small as they look. A 3 megapixel portrait can seem tiny on the screen of a camera phone. The bill for sending it might not be so small!
Can't face a Smiley?
Try a Gloomy.
Symbols and facial expressions add impact
WHEN EVERY PIXEL COUNTS
If you have a phone, you're already a seasoned user of pictures
down to the size of a pin head. 
. 
What
would we do without those tiny
icons, readable at a glance
- in any language? They're
not only indispensable. Symbols
can be powerful stuff. A symbol
stands for more than it represents,
and can stir strong feelings.
One little shape can say most of all in the smallest space. What's that? A face. Symbols can have different meanings in different cultures, but let's - er - face it, we've all got faces. What was the first thing you ever learned to read? A human face.
Smileys are not the only tiny images that say worlds with a wink or a frown. If you want to make any icon, phone graphic, logo or gallery thumbnail stand out among the crowd - forget the gimmicks and garish colours. Give it a face!
Funnily enough, considering the experience we've had, most of us still aren't a hundred percent efficient at reading faces. Secret agents and deaf people learn to be pretty good at seeing body language. The rest of us all too often take faces at, well, face value. A social smile or frown can often hide a very different emotion. (So can a smiley!) Learning a bit about drawing facial expressions can reveal a thing or two about our social skills.
If instruction manuals cause you fainting fits 
or tutorials bring you out in spots 
I've tried to make the technical details here as jargon free as possible.
... SITE MAP
Drawing facial expressions and symbols
(c) Valerie Beeby 1998 - 2008
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