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BTNbackstab6

This is an icon I created for a request on thehelper.net

It's completely freehand, drawn with a mouse using the image editing software GIMP.

After trialing the icon ingame I was not happy with how much detail it lost so I have enhanced the contrast to preserve a better shape. I have also added a background due to a hive member's suggestion.

Here is the original icon, intermediate background and a higher quality version of the current (final) icon -

BTNbackstab.png
BTNbackstab2.png
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Keywords:
stab, back, backstab, execute
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BTNbackstab6 (Icon)

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17:50, 3rd Oct 2008 Dan van Ohllus: Very nice icon you have there.

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17:50, 3rd Oct 2008
Dan van Ohllus:
Very nice icon you have there.
 
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Yeah it wasn't so much a backstab icon as it was an icon of a guy with a sword in his back (as was requested)... but seriously if someone backstabbed you in rl with a sword, well I think you would kind of end up like this guy anyhow.

I tried adding a background but because the image has such tiny detail the background really detracts from it. When the icon is used ingame warcraft blurs it quite a bit (atleast on my pc). Here's the version with a background, it looks ok in this format but ingame it's just too much. I even altered the contrast on this one but ingame it still comes up smudgey :(

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I'm going to have to learn to simplify the detail in icons for the sake of ingame appearance, as well as create better colour contrast
 
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yeah I see what you are saying... I kept it dark around the edges because -

a) that was the style I was going for and
b) my icons tend to be too high detail for war3 and once ingame blur up, so defined edges help keep that under control

.... but I took onboard what you said (the black edges got uglier the more I looked at it) and I tightened up the whole icon
 
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