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Learn How To Credit

Why?

There are many tutorials already on how to do such a simple task, but I decided to make my own for the hell of it (Plus I keep getting asked this). First I'd like to start off with why you should even credit. For those who don't know, it takes us all a lot of time to make the icons others simply save and upload in their user pictures. Not only in actually making the graphics, but also in coming up with new techniques in doing things, trying to stay unique, etc.

Even though we do all this for our own entertainment, we'd like to get recognized.

Giving credit shows you respect the time we took into creating icons or other graphics you like. Also it's helpful for others who might see the icons you have of ours and they can easily find more of the same creator. It's not hard nor wastes a lot of time, so I don't know why so many are against it.

It doesn't even need to mess up your keywords. Thanks to LJ (GJ has done this as well) for adding a bottom comment feature for user pictures, you can credit there without having to scramble up the keywords you want to use for a specific icon. Plus it prevents ways of cutting off the creator's name.

That being said, I hope many of you understand how much this can mean to an icon maker by doing such a small thing. Some great people have had the problem of so many users not bothering to credit that they have given up altogether with the issue. That's pretty sad.. Don't you want to make your favorite icon-makers happy, even if they are strangers?

Sign in and go to the top taskbar. Hover over manage and click on User Pictures.

There are several ways to credit, not just the ones listed below. All you need to remember is to place the creator's name in there somewhere (Without having it cut off please).

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How To (GJ)

Sign in and look at the sidebar on the left. Click on User Pictures.

There are several ways to credit, not just the ones listed below. All you need to remember is to place the creator's name in there somewhere (Without having it cut off please).



REMEMBER: Just because you use the code on GJ does not mean it will link back to Livejournal. The same code is used on GJ, so if you use that code it will take you to the username you linked to only in GJ. If you take an icon from someone on LJ and use it on another site like GJ, credit with either method #1 or #2 from above.