: [DUG] Icon creation
As people know, I always recommend IconWorkshop for icons and think it
is the ants pants. Tried Gimp (no thanks), IcoFx is ok for a free
product.
Anyway, it is on special at the moment, almost half off. It is a
lifetime license as well.
It is an offer via SWREG so you can't just
As people know, I always recommend IconWorkshop for icons and think it
is the ants pants. Tried Gimp (no thanks), IcoFx is ok for a free
product.
Anyway, it is on special at the moment, almost half off. It is a
lifetime license as well.
It is an offer via SWREG so you can't just go to the
After seeing Alister's video a few years ago, I have been using gimp for
my icons!
(Thanks Alister!)
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 18:11 +1300, Alister Christie wrote:
I made this video a few years ago
http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=12Itemid=27
making icons with GiMP.
GiMP is pretty awesome, however not overly suited to icon creation. I
also use it for all my button images. Generally I use a really old
version of Corel Draw (7 I think) for creating a vectored image, then
copy and paste it into GiMP to sort out the transparancy and shadows and
stuff.
What
I have never read up on best practices/sizes etc for creating program icons
and BMP files for buttons/images etc. Anyone got any good references to read
up further??
q1 – I have figured how to create a BMP with transparent background for bit
buttons etc so the image is not square. How do I
Put them in resource files. Newer IDE's come with included resource
file management abilities.
What do you mean by create? Do you use an image editor for this? I use
IconWorkshop by Axialis, or buy sets (Glyph Lab or Glyfx) or get them
custom made (Clever Icons).
Windows uses square icons 16x16,
I made this video a few years ago
http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=12Itemid=27
http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=12Itemid=27
making icons with GiMP.
However there are some quite good free standalone Icon editors.
Alister Christie
