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Hivetyrant

That Beholder looks great, I do believe that the back bround needs to be transparent. I would like to suggest with the combat monster icon you had a small picture of the monster with appropriate background so that a party sees what they are up against during combat.

yup, Usually use a background like that so that the monster is easy to see, and it is easy to change ;)
Ok, thanks Silentheif and Manikus ;)

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Originally posted by Steve McDonald:
I have tried shrinking down images to make icons but could never get them to look right. (I think the interior needs to be anti-aliased but the outside of the icons should be a sharp change to the transparent colour - this is beyond me).

I've been doing some work with this- if the initial background has a high contrast with the figure, and you use a fill with a tolerance of 10-20 to fill in the background once it has been shrunk, it goes a long way towards a crisp outline. You inevitably have to go in and do some pixel by pixel replacement.

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Originally posted by Steve McDonald:
PS I managed to post without being told I'm banned (which I'm not) - first time for about a year! I doubt I'll be able to keep it up, though.

Nice to have you with us, even if it is short-lived.

-manikus