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[Shelley_c]

Originally Posted by KW802

Shelley, looking good.

My only question, so far, would be how scalable will they be in regards to size? My personal preference lay with using smilies that are close in size to the 'stock' versions so that when they are used inline in the middle of a paragraph, the formatting is not distorted.

OOhh... thinking out loud... how about an exclamation point, thumbs up, & thumbs down so that they can be used to replace the post icons as well?

Good question Kevin.

I'm quite positive in guessing that scaling them down to the stock size wouldn't result in any loss in quality. However, Areas such as the mouth, eyebrows and the eye areas where they show as being shut may result in distortion because the width is 1px in width and reducing the size on the mouths below 1px would most definitely result in some kind of distortion. I know you meant used inline in the middle/in between text but you've alerted me to another issue people would face with regards to quality.

I could scale down the canvas and not include the shadow underneath the smiley this might stop the text from being distorted breaking. Just scaled down the canvas and the smallest I could get it working with these emoticons is 24px by 24px so I'm not sure this would retain the text formatting/alignment. Eitherway, I may redo these and make them smaller (same size as the vb stock smilies) and I will include everything (even replacements of the post icons and if you have any suggestions you want to include in this post I will try and design and linclude them in the pack hopefully at a smaller size.

Thanks kev for alerting me to this potential problem and I will try to work around it even if it means re-designing the smileys. I've inserted the smiley in the paragraphs above so we will see if it distorts the formatting of the text which I think it will.