Dan Harkless' "videotape" Icon

Date:  

September 25, 1997

Tool:  

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 4.12 on a Dell Dimension XPS Pro200n running Windows NT 4.0

Info:  

I wasn't quite happy with the videotape icons I was able to find on-line, so I drew this one for my Possessions page. At the time this was done, there were still enough 8-bit color displays out there to make it important to stick to the "web-safe" palette, so this icon was done that way and I used a cross-hatch to get the right color for the actual tape inside the tape window. It occurs to me, BTW, that this videotape couldn't exist in real life — there's too much tape on the two reels for it to ever be rewound fully.