Icons??
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Hi All. I'm building an app that graphs data and am looking for clean, professional, 3d-looking icons. I tried making my own in Photoshop, but they turn out kind of cheesy. Icon art seems to be somewhat of a mystical talent. I've searched the Internet far and wide to no avail. Most of the stuff I found was cheesier than what I made myself. (and that doesn't speak for much) The tools will include Zoom, Autoscale, Statistics, Overplot, Calculator, and all kinds of data smoothing FFT and signal manipulation. I am always searching for that elusive little detail that embellishes the sweet smell of professionalism, and any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. ~tia! Nitron _________________________________________-- message sent on 100% recycled electrons.
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Hi All. I'm building an app that graphs data and am looking for clean, professional, 3d-looking icons. I tried making my own in Photoshop, but they turn out kind of cheesy. Icon art seems to be somewhat of a mystical talent. I've searched the Internet far and wide to no avail. Most of the stuff I found was cheesier than what I made myself. (and that doesn't speak for much) The tools will include Zoom, Autoscale, Statistics, Overplot, Calculator, and all kinds of data smoothing FFT and signal manipulation. I am always searching for that elusive little detail that embellishes the sweet smell of professionalism, and any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. ~tia! Nitron _________________________________________-- message sent on 100% recycled electrons.
Some rules i observe: 1. icon consists of no more then 3 objects 2. there is one main object 3. use standard icons for standard actions (cut, copy, paste, etc) and common consideration: use standard colors (red - emergancy, error, caution; green - success) but i, personally, do not draw icon. i prefer that designer do it
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Hi All. I'm building an app that graphs data and am looking for clean, professional, 3d-looking icons. I tried making my own in Photoshop, but they turn out kind of cheesy. Icon art seems to be somewhat of a mystical talent. I've searched the Internet far and wide to no avail. Most of the stuff I found was cheesier than what I made myself. (and that doesn't speak for much) The tools will include Zoom, Autoscale, Statistics, Overplot, Calculator, and all kinds of data smoothing FFT and signal manipulation. I am always searching for that elusive little detail that embellishes the sweet smell of professionalism, and any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. ~tia! Nitron _________________________________________-- message sent on 100% recycled electrons.
That's pretty much the size of it, i'm afraid. You have four choices:
- Use (potentially crappy) free icons
- Steal nice-looking icons from commercial software (bad idea if you plan to distribute your program)
- Learn to draw your own icons
- Pay someone who is good at it to draw icons for you
I have to admit, i do a fair amount of icon work, and the icons i draw are at best mediocre quality. One of my brothers, after a rather short period of time becoming used to the software, is able to draw quite nice looking ones. So i've a feeling there's only so far you can go without a hefty heaping helping of pure Natural Talent. But, you can always try, it's rather fun IMHO. :)
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