Helping icon makers one tutorial at a time.

Hi. I'm having a real issue with my icon text... specifically, it's all kinds of fuzzy and unpleasant. Witness this and this. I think it may be an anti-alias thing, but I've no idea how to fix it.

The fonts I use are mainly 04b_03b and 04b_20, and I haven't got a clue what's going on. Help?

I'm trying to learn to better use templates and brushes, and I'm looking for good places to get them. Any suggestions? I've found some in the past posts, of course. But, I'm a hog for things like that. *lol*

Brushes for PSP preferred, but I can use brushes for PS as well.
Templates in pretty much any format...

Thank you very much in advance for any help. ^_^

I  made a freakin' icon in ImageReady and when I started it was 29k.  After about three hours or so, I finished and discoverd that the file had become 106k.  I was like WTF?!  Can someone tell me why it did this, how to prevent from happening next time, and possibly how to fix it?   I'm quite new with images and crap, so I'm having a hard time...  

Alright, I understand vectors & paths and such, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get them to work with type. I have searched all the communities, google, and my Adobe Photoshop Help file, all to no avail. I'd really like to be able to do something with my type then have it in a straight line or use the horrid "transform" tool.

So...for the love of god...could someone pleeeeeease write a PS7 tutorial for text on paths?

Thanks in advance!!

xoxo

I want to make screencaptures so I hear Virtual Dub is a good program so I downloaded it. I want to open a movie, on the DVD cd, to the program but I can't. Does anyone know how to open the movie to the program? Am I doing something wrong?

How do I make my icon have a certain color tint to it...I have Adobe Photoshop 7...Im very confused and very new to all this so any help will be very much appreciated! Thanks