Creating Icons
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I came across this the other day: http://thenounproject.com/[^] Good if you want monochrome glyphs, or a source of inspiration otherwise. Usually I use this handy piece of software: http://www.axialis.com/iconworkshop/[^] since I can't draw worth a crap.
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I am thinking easter egg. On certain dates/times/random number of launches, change the icon to this. If I put it in as is, it would get shot down. If it didn't show normally and only appeared at certain times... profit!
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: x 10 I can’t stop laughing! And I’m sober as a water-main!
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Free icons. Inkscape is nifty for creating icons (I've created a couple myself).
RJOberg wrote:
"Contact Us" for example
A phone (the old kind)? A rotary dialer? A number pad? The pound symbol? A pen writing on a pad of paper? A loudspeaker with arcs to represent sound waves? An area code (e.g., "(555)")?
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It wouldn't do me any good to down vote you. Slap you I will, but downvote, not now. :)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Good: hate the whole down voting thing and it looks like some sunshine is uni-bombing me as we speak. Oh well, the price of being hilarious, I suppose. :-)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
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I would think in terms of using layers. Put your img in one layer and text in another. The enclose both in a third (Master) layer. Then you only change the master as necessary from a library.
Was your message meant for me? I don't see how it applies to my post.
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
IMHO creating good (read consistent, intuitive, pleasing) icons is no easy feat. I've long since given up trying to create icons and instead use IconFinder[^] to identify representative icons and pass them to a designer who will create the icons from scratch. You may be able to use IconFinder's icons directly, depending on their license. /ravi
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Interesting, they don't like IE. Which is the sanctioned work browser.
The Noun Project wrote:
It seems your browser is not up-to-date. Please visit us on the recent version of Safari(5.1+), Chrome(15.0+), or Firefox(8.0+) Thank you. – The Noun Project
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: x 10 I can’t stop laughing! And I’m sober as a water-main!
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet! Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
Glad you like it, and I really wish I'd thought of it. It's one of my favorite images of all time, so I use any excuse - however thin - to repost it. :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
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ryanb31 wrote:
Exactly. Lighten up.
Oh, droll, very droll.
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FTFY: Oh troll, very troll.
Software Zen:
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: x 10 I can’t stop laughing! And I’m sober as a water-main!
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
How about these[^]? I also like this site[^]. Google came up with this[^]. Some more: Free Buttons[^], Freebits[^]
Attempting to load signature... A NullSignatureException was unhandled. Message: "No signature exists" All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. Carl Sagan
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
Get some Chinese guy/gal write out the command in Chinese characters. Enclose that inside a square and you have got your button/icon. People used to be literate and so one could type in a command such as 'dir' to view the directory. Then came the illiterates so now you just click on an icon and don't have to know how to read or write. You now want the icons to be a meaningful representation of the command (word or verb) that you want executed. Well, that is what Chinese ideograms are: stylized representations of actual things. If you don't believe me, ask your friendly neighborhood Chinese guy/gal to write out 'home', 'fire', 'turtle'. 'gate', etc., in Chinese characters and see how they are simplified representations of the real things. Does that mean we should all be learning Chinese? Yeah, that seems to be the direction we are heading anyway. Icons are arranged vertically, like Chinese writing whereas normal languages are written left-to-right. (Elephant Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew, etc.) Soon, instead of left-to-right columns, we will have columns to be read top-to-bottom and right-to-left. The conquest of the computer field by the Chinese will then be complete. And you think Silicon Valley is infested by Chinese hardware and software engineers! You ain't seen nothing yet! :laugh: PS. Made this a 'joke' for the humor-impaired univoters though it should have been a 'rant'.
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
We use Axialis Icon Workshop[^] to construct icons[^] using the supplied object packs. As a bonus, it can edit true colour image strips as well, which comes in handy for toolbars etc. I can't recommend this software enough. It's made that little part of my job so much easier and less stressful than it was before.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer:
Lots of times I can find suitable icons already built. Check out www.iconarchive.com. There's some really good ones in there. I don't have that much artistic ability myself and have found a number of good ones there.
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IMHO creating good (read consistent, intuitive, pleasing) icons is no easy feat. I've long since given up trying to create icons and instead use IconFinder[^] to identify representative icons and pass them to a designer who will create the icons from scratch. You may be able to use IconFinder's icons directly, depending on their license. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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We use Axialis Icon Workshop[^] to construct icons[^] using the supplied object packs. As a bonus, it can edit true colour image strips as well, which comes in handy for toolbars etc. I can't recommend this software enough. It's made that little part of my job so much easier and less stressful than it was before.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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So I'm working on a project and I need to create icons for various tasks within the project. I'm having a bit of a creative block and can't figure out what to do for each of them (going to end up with 10 or so). In the end, I'm certain that each icon will be examined by a committee and redesigned to what they want. If I try to present them with a button that has some text on it, that won't fly. Anyone have any strategies for figuring out how to make match an image to the text you want to convey? A few I have ideas about, but others I am just lost. "Contact Us" for example... total shutdown of the brain. Maybe a good bit of drink or three would help the creative juices. :beer::beer::beer: