Re: Introducing Bert Latamore

Leti,

I may try the experiment with some head shots of friends. but 20X18 pixels doesn't sound like very much. 

So besides Shadow, Datebk6 and HandiShopper, what apps are out there that use icons? I am always interested in adding more icons-using apps to my PDA.

Bert

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From: leti <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:02:31 PM
Subject: RE: [IconMgr] Introducing Bert Latamore









  


    
            Bert,



I have turned many photographs into icons.  Sometimes it works well, and

sometimes it's awful!  You need to find photos that are fairly simple.  I

use Photoshop Elements to edit the file and shrink it down to the proper

number of pixels (20x18) and save it as .bmp.  I have hundreds (thousands,

actually) of icons I've created.  I don't actually USE this many in programs

that use icons, but I get a lot of pleasure out of creating them.



Leti



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> From: IconMgr@yahoogroups .com 

> [mailto:IconMgr@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf Of Bert Latamore

> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:12 AM

> To: IconMgr@yahoogroups .com

> Subject: [IconMgr] Introducing Bert Latamore

> 

> 

> Hi, I am a new member here although I am certainly not new to 

> IconMgr, Icons, or the Palm OS. I am an advanced user of my 

> Palm Tungsten T3 both for personal and professional uses, and 

> I use Icons at every opportunity. I learned about this group 

> from a note posted by a member on the Datebk6 group, and I 

> joined mainly because I am always looking for good sources of 

> new icons. So I plan to raid your icon database and add the 

> icons there to my collection, which includes several sets I 

> bought on PalmGear.

> 

> I am a professional freelance writer in the computer 

> industry. Among other things I write a blog for ComputerWorld 

> Online called "The PDA Guerilla" (link below) in which I 

> write about advanced use of PDAs and the gadget lifestyle. I 

> mention that because I hope some members here will find my 

> blog interesting and because I may mention this group along 

> with others in a blog some day. I also write a weekly column 

> on network issues for ComputerWorld Online, I am US 

> Correspondent for PharmaTechnology, a quarterly magazine 

> published in the PRC, and I have three private clients. So I 

> keep busy. My professional background includes five years as 

> a writer at the late and lamented META Group, four at 

> Gartner, and 35 years total of professional writing experience.

> 

> Personally, I am 60 years old, I live with my wife, Moire, 

> our dog, Belle, our cat, Marshmallow, and our two parrots, 

> Zax (blue and gold macaw) and bogart (white eyed conure) in 

> Linden, VA, in the Shanendoah Valley outside Washington, DC.

> 

> And my question for the group is: Is there any way to turn 

> photographs into icons?

> 

> Glad to be here,

> 

> Bert Latamore

> Read my blog on PDA use at: 

> http://www.computer world.com/ blogs/latamore

> 

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