Recently I’ve been making a bigger effort at being an active member of Twitter. Doing so made me realize that I wanted a cute, memorable icon as my profile picture. I wanted people to see me, as well as get an idea of what my focus is on Twitter (which lately has been photography).

Step One: Create the canvas

You have 73×73 pixels to work with. Using Photoshop (or whatever image editor you use that can save transparent PNGs), create a new document 73×73 at 72DPI.

This is what 73×73 pixels looks like:

Step Two: Choose your elements

Since I wanted to show both my niche (photography) and myself, I decided to look for some icons to work with. I found the icons I wanted in the free “Function Icon Set” package.

These are the items I chose to work with for my picture:

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I literally just Stumbled across this nifty little website called SplashUp.com. I must say, I was really impressed! Sites like these really have me looking forward to the future of the web. What if we could edit and share all our images online everywhere we went?

About SplashUp

SplashUp currently holds a “beta” on it’s logo, indicating we can expect a lot of development and improvement as time gos on.

It’s meta description is as follows:

Splashup is the only full-featured, free range, image editor online. Create new images, edit existing images and manipulate layers with filters, layer effects and myriad other drawing and image editing tools.

According to its WhoIs page it is registered privately through Domains by Proxy.

I didn’t have time to extensively test the site for bugs, but upon … Read More »