[DUG] Fw: Icon creation

[John Bird]

?
?I just decided to order that Icon Workshop software - note it seems to have
dropped another $5 in price - its now USD$34 or $NZD$49.20

John


-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeremy North
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:45 AM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [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 go to the website (unless
the discount is given in the checkout screen).

Link from email:
http://dr.bluehornet.com/ct/3992300:4569202619:m:1:294663869:22ADE41AE5315E436E0B22FC0E8007EF

Becomes:
https://usd.swreg.org/cgi-bin/s.cgi?s=47156&p=471561&v=0&d=0&q=1&rc=45K2D464EW&a=swreg_Q4_2010&linkid=IWP_2



* No I don't work for them - just like the product.



On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Alister Christie
<alister at salespartner.co.nz> wrote:
> 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 do other people do for button images?
> Draw their own? get pre-built packs? have an in-house graphic artist?
>
> Alister Christie
> Computers for People
> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
> http://www.salespartner.co.nz
> PO Box 13085
> Johnsonville
> Wellington
>
>
> On 10/11/2010 9:26 a.m., Nick Fauchelle wrote:
>> 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_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27
>>> making icons with GiMP.
>>>
>>> However there are some quite good free standalone Icon editors.
>>> Alister Christie
>>> Computers for People
>>> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
>>> http://www.salespartner.co.nz
>>> PO Box 13085
>>> Johnsonville
>>> Wellington
>>>
>>> On 9/11/2010 5:32 p.m., John Bird wrote:
>>>> 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 create
>>>> same for program ICO files?   All my program icons in the task bar
>>>> are square as a result.
>>>>
>>>> q2 – Where does everyone else store their image files?  Really they
>>>> should be considered part of the project.   Only the IDE does not
>>>> store what the original filename was, so to find the image again
>>>> (for a bitbutton/program icon etc) I have to know what it was and
>>>> where.       I haven’t made up mind between storing them in the
>>>> project source folder or a separate images folder...
>>>>
>>>> Any Embarcadero programmers out there reading this – how about the
>>>> IDE stores the names of the files when it loads them, so it can be
>>>> found again.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
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