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I thought it was an excellent little tutorial, good explanation of shape techniques and use of the pen tool. Clever use of the custom shape. The colours weren't really important, it is what was done with them that mattered imo

The rating seems to have increased, a case of the cream rising to the top. Thanks to the author.

Yes; I still remain quite hands-on with the moderation process, both in terms of moderators and in terms of ratings.

Ever Dying - thanks for the feedback! You're right, I don't usually include the exact colours for my tuts and I'll consider adding it in next time. I know there are a lot of RSS tuts out there, but I hoped this would be one of the more unique ones due to it's shape, plus the usage of a pre-existing Photoshop shape to get the icon part.

Zach - For which I am grateful! But yet, there have been a few tuts I've seen that were GOOD, but had to be submitted twice to make it to the front because they had a few mods who rated them down when it should've been much higher. More and more I'm thinking there might be some less-than-ethical mods who try to stamp out competition for their own tut site ... is this something you actively look into?

That's why we have multiple moderators.

I think you could have done even better.. You should have told us the colors..
The rest of it is actually pretty good, very nice outcome..!
However, RSS icons are a bit overdone.. Way too much tutorials for that..

Yes, the first mod did rate it a 1/5, I've seen a few before (or at least the ones that made it to the front page) get a low rating when they really should've deserve higher. Tried to bump em up but I personally don't think they should have been rated that low in the first place!

Only reason I can think of is that perhaps the mod wasn't familiar with what an RSS icon was, or they were trying to stamp out competition for their own site. Whatever the case, thanks for the compliment! :)

Your tutorial is well written and one of the better tutorials. Did you get a 1/5 rating? It's not the first time I've seen good tutorials with a 1/5 rating.

Woah, you guys are really rating this terrible?

The finished icon is polished and fine, and there's a lot of pen tool usage (plus info on how to use add/subtract). There's even a bit on how to make the RSS icon without painstaking tracing easily, using a bullet. The entire icon is scalable meaning there are no raster parts. It's well explained and illustrated.

If this is a terrible, what on earth are you looking for?

Hey thanks. :D
Yeah I've been moving some things around on the site and I've noticed the pages might be a little hard to find - I'm thinking of implementing a plugin to make it more visible. Thanks for the suggestion!

This is a nice tutorial for sure, but you need to point out the page numbers more clearly, as it was hard for me to find them amidst all of the other stuff.

Just so people know, my wordpress is acting a little funny today. If you get an error page, come back in about five minutes and it should be fine. Thanks!

Helpful, but I already have a favicon! :D

I use an .ico filetype plugin for Photoshop and just save 'em straight from there.

Do some mods rate low for no reason?

Seriously, I could understand if this was one of my other tutorials - perhaps my badge of navigation - but this is something unique. I've searched your database and haven't found anything like this. Also, I believe it's well-documented and explained. Even if it uses 'simple' steps, it's effective. What are you guys looking for when you rate these?

Why was this rated so low? I certainly don't think it's 'terrible', especially for a tutorial in the Basics category. I remember when I first started out I was looking everywhere to learn how to make this effect.

Thanks, I appreciate it. ;)

Simple tutorial, but a great read for those starting pixel design or other projects.

No problem, thank you for such an amazing site by the way!

lol, don't worry about it too much. The LOLCAT stuff is pretty funny- and while I can appreciate the humor, I don't think it's very helpful in actually trying to learn Photoshop as much, unfortunately.

Thanks for your sarcasm. I realize this is a little unorthodox but it was mainly for humour, you can see that my previous tutorials were more in line with what you guys do, but sorry for trying to share a laugh.

r U kiddin' me? what was that?