Hah! Now that's the kind of balloon I'd want!

Very funny piece for an icon! :D

boing-bwoomp-boing~

That could almost be Pop Art.

Very nice composition!

I sure hope the rope doesn't break O.O

Who is using Blue as a balloon I wonder...? I want the next turn!
Nice pic Blue!

Playing with helium I take it?

balloonie! :D nice random icon :3

:o I like it!

Awsome. Nice and simple icon.

Dragons make the best balloons <3 *bounces ya :D*

Tehe!

Ow! Those colours hurt!

Is your monitor calibrated okay? There's some serious blown out colour going on in this picture. Try desaturating them a bit, otherwise you're gonna blind your viewers with that icon.

Hmm, bit of a tricky balance I guess.

Yes, on a well calibrated monitor, the colours are a bit strong. But frustratingly, I've found that about 80% of monitors/displays are desaturated/washed in comparison, when at factory settings.

Best to be safe than blind - I've found if you avoid colours too close to RGB values, and desaturate them anyway, they look good on all monitors. I know that I looked at my stuff I did on my (really badly calibrated) laptop on a proper screen and it looked absolutely terrible!

The colours in your avatar are perfect, I'd think. A nice purple-tinged blue and yellow-tinged green. The closer you get to absolute colours (r, b, or b), the more flat and unconvincing they're gonna look. Again, lighter colours are less saturated and darker colours are generally more saturated, but don't go overboard with the saturation, even if 80% of people aren't looking at the picture properly (and especially with large areas to colour!). You don't want to compensate for them. If you do, you breed bad habits that'll come and bite you in the butt when you want to do proper work, for like, printing and stuff. Don't do it!

Well, the avatar you were using before.

I've been trying that, with the hue and such. I think I need to push myself to make those hues go further to purple and yellows, despite them initially looking off to me.

Though I think the rest would be easier addressed if I could calibrate this laptop screen. Do you know of any tool that does so?

http://www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php

This one's served me well in the past.

Arr, thanks for that. I'll save it.

The screen definitely isn't calibrated, going by that. There's a big leap from A to B, and X Y and Z are flush together. Hmm. Though, unfortunately laptop monitors often don't have a contrast adjustment.

Scratch that, found a contrast control in the ATI Catalyst Control panel. I -think- dropping gamma from 1 to 0.7 has done the trick.

Thankyee :).

Anytime :)

Wheeeee, floaty! ^^

Hehehe, fun! =D

A very familiar sight methinks!

Looks like you're having a ball there chief. :) Quite the bright and enjoyable image. :D

nice idea :P

Yet another side to you that I love Nice work, hun n.n

We used to put the tube in the maw but sadly it worked like a reverse gallows :(. Now we stick them in there feet... We are not be taking any questions at this time >.>

WHo got ya this time?

Beautifully done! =3