Icon Making Tutorial Challenge.
Friday, April 2, 2004 by mormegil | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
On IRC today the Idea was brought up of making a nifty tutorial For making Icons.
A lot of people use different Programs to make Icons, I would like to put together a Group of Tutorial showing how to make a Icon, with certain Criteria, in each of these programs.
I am Volunteering to do the CorelDraw Tutorial.
So here is the Criteria.
1) Must Be a folder
2) Must Show Transparency
3) Must show Gloss
4) Must Show Shadow
5) The finished Icon must Contain, but not be limited to 128x128, 48x48, 32x32, & 16x16 WindowsXP formats.
The rest is up to you.
The Idea here is to answer a lot of questions that we all see, in our inboxes, and on the message boards. And I think it would be kind of fun to see what we come up with. I think for simplify we should just make our tutorials As Text Files with, Numbered Screenshots. We can put them all together when everyone is done in a nice HTML file and post in several places.
If you are interested Please White me back ASAP. I would like to have the entire project done in the next few weeks. Include What Program you would like to use.
AS it is now we have.
CorelDRAW Mormegil (Paul Boyer)
FirwWorks DigitalCHET (AL)
PS. This is not a Stardock Sponsored thing, just something that I think would be cool. And fun for all of us.
Paul Boyer
www.stardock.com[Message Edited]
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Reply #3 Friday, April 2, 2004 2:43 PM
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Reply #6 Friday, April 2, 2004 2:53 PM
OK looks like we got Treetog to do Photoshop, Would still love to get.
Illustrator
PSP
Freehand
Gimp
Or any others
Reply #7 Friday, April 2, 2004 2:54 PM
Can you tell I've never volunteered for anything like this before?
Reply #9 Friday, April 2, 2004 5:15 PM
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Reply #11 Friday, April 2, 2004 8:51 PM
Reply #12 Friday, April 2, 2004 9:12 PM
Of course it would be nice if any hints as to how to make sure the Final Icon is nice and clean, would be nice.
Reply #14 Saturday, April 3, 2004 6:30 AM
Reply #15 Sunday, April 4, 2004 8:39 PM
Reply #16 Sunday, April 4, 2004 8:44 PM
Xara is a very cool program, I have thought about using it, but I miss the Mesh Fill to much to use it exclusively.
If you would like to do a Xara Totorial, that would be very cool. E-mail me if you have any questions, about what we are trying to do with this.
Reply #17 Tuesday, April 6, 2004 6:41 PM
freehand, indeed.. but i can't stand the macromedia pen tool.Reply #18 Wednesday, April 7, 2004 4:17 AM
Reply #19 Wednesday, April 7, 2004 9:52 AM
Reply #20 Thursday, April 8, 2004 9:57 AM
I am amazed at how a 48x48 svg makes a perfect 128x128 png.
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Reply #1 Friday, April 2, 2004 2:37 PM
Inkscape is a free SVG editor available for both X and Windows. as GNOME and KDE can use SVG icons natively the tutorial stops at this point. but the program also can export to PNG. and from PNG to ICO it´s only a small step.