USING THE POWER
OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND SYMBOLS
IN DIGITAL ART

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FACES

• DRAWING FACIAL EXPRESSIONS for emoticons and cartoons
• Facial expressions and body language. The six universal expressions.
• Emotion icons, smilies and facial expressions
  • Drawing a sad face. Can't face a Smiley? Try a Gloomy.
  • Drawing an angry facial expression
  • Drawing the face of fear
• PLAY THE FACE GAME. Learn Vector drawing

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SYMBOLS

• THE PICTURE LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS. Are your symbols out of date?
• Free icon ideas from symbol fonts

DRAWING

• SYMBOL DRAWING IS CHILD'S PLAY. The skill you never lose.

DIGITAL DRAWING AND PAINTING FORMATS

• DRAWING OR PAINTING ON A COMPUTER. What's the difference?
  • Painting (and photo) editors. Makers of rich bitmap tapestries.
  • Drawing with vector graphics. Sharp at any size.
• GIF GRAPHICS AND JPEG PHOTOS. Bitmap beauty contest.

DRAWING AND PAINTING SOFTWARE

• PhotoShop or Photoshop Elements
• Graphic Converter for Mac
• IrfanView for PC
• MS Paint as an icon editor

KIT

• DRAWING ON YOUR COMPUTER. Wacom and other graphic tablets.
• Drawing on your phone or pda
  • 'Drawing' with a joystick on the Sony Ericsson T610. Phew!
• Drawing and handwriting on a Pocket PC
  • Pocket Notes
• Drawing on a Palm. The world's your studio.
• Drawing on paper. Does it work for miniature drawings?

DOWNSIZING IMAGES

• IS YOUR PICTURE REALLY AS SMALL AS IT LOOKS? Three kinds of small.
  • Don't send a picture the size of a poster to show at the size of a stamp
    • Arcane GIF optimisation trick. Secret of the Butcher's Apron.

SAVING SPACE

• SAVE SPACE. Draw a part for the whole.
  • Save space with animation. It runs on the spot!
  • Save space with lateral thinking
• SAVE SPACE WITH WORDS. Speed up web site graphics with a pun.
  • Save space in an animated logo - by playing Scrabble
  • Say it in a nutshell. Cut your copy.

PHONE GRAPHICS

• PICTURES FOR PHONES. Photoshop slims your GIFs dramatically.
  • Slide down the rainbow and save pots of gold on graphics for your phone
• MAKING BLACK-AND-WHITE PICTURES FOR OLDER PHONES. Can you use a photo?
  • Nano-graphics, where everything goes into reverse. The sunflower that fell apart.
  • Ways to make WBMP flowers in Photoshop. Which way wins?
  • Antialias. Get rid of the jaggies in tiny two-colour images.

PUBLIC SYMBOLS
FAVICON TUTORIAL

• Make your own mini marketing logo
• Making favicon. Starting with ABC.
• Making favicon. Stepping up to pictograms.
• Making favicon. What's special about icon files?
• Loading favicon, Pimpernel of the icon world (but it's remembered!)

PERSONAL SYMBOLS
AGENDA ICONS

• Agenda Categories. Tips.
• Creating personal symbols. When you've only yourself to please!
• Create agenda icon images
• Draw icons directly on a Palm with handy tools in Icon Manager.

Facial expressions. Symbols. Draw instant attention to tiny images for phones or icons.

(c) Valerie Beeby 2007