Here is Bad Baloo...Lets clean him up for Iconization!
1. Start Photoshop, set the foreground and background color to #B1B3BC.
2. In your web browser, right-click the image and choose Copy (IE) or Copy Image
(Mozilla/Firefox), in this case its Baloo.
3. In PS, CTRL+N, or File New, PS will auto set the resolution from what's in
the
clipboard, Background Contents should be Background Color (i.e.
#B1B3BC). Click OK
3.1 Zoom the Image to your preferred editing size.
4. in PS, CTRL+V, or Edit Paste. Now you should see your image as Layer 1, and
the Background is #B1B3BC.
5. in PS, Select Menu, Color Range. Set Fuzziness to 0, click on the gray
surrounding Baloo, then back in the Color Range window, click the Eye Dropper
with the +
6. With this + Eyedropper select the White bits and other non essential little
bits surrounding Baloo, mainly the light green stuff. Click OK
7. Now press Delete, this will erase the white bits, and the gray surrounding
Baloo. But as you can see, its still gray, that's cause the BG layer is Gray.
8. Select the Marquee Tool, and select the Black bar on the left side of the
Image, and delete it.
9. Clean up the other little tid-bits around Baloo with the Eraser in Pencil
Mode, set its size to 1 pixel, so you can single click out naughty bits.
10. Image Menu, Trim... Top Left Pixel Color, all 4 boxes checked...Click OK.
Now we have a nice and trim Baloo.
11. Image Menu, Canvas Size... Set it to 165x165, or to 172x172, it just depends
on if you want to Clip out a tiny bit of Baloo, or add in some Gray BG pixels on
top and below Baloo. Click OK. Now we have a nice Square Baloo Image.
12. Image Menu, Image Size... set it to 80x80, Click OK. Now we have a very nice
looking 80x80 VN/IGN sized Image of Baloo, and its not BLOCKY, Jagged, Assy.
13. Marquee Tool, Select all but 1 pixel from both sides and bottom of the
Image.
14. Select Menu... Inverse.
15. Select Menu... Feather, 2 pixels, Click OK
16. Press Delete 2 times, and here is what we end up with
17. File Menu, Save for Web
18. Use the Eye Dropper, and click the Gray Background.
19. Over on the right side, under the Color Table, there is a little box that is
white and gray. Click that to make the Gray you selected Transparent.
20. Click Save, and save it.
