[DUG] Fw: Icon creation

[Laurence Bevan]

I've used IconWorkshop from Axialis software for years now. It has some
pretty cool object libraries for creating your own icons and supports all
versions up to Windows 7, it really is an awesome piece of software. They
are running a special at the moment up until the end of today for US$24.95
(instead of US$49.95) which gives you a lifetime license. 

Cheers,
Laurence Bevan


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Tuesday, 30 November 2010 4:22 p.m.
To: delphi at delphi.org.nz
Subject: [DUG] Fw: Icon creation

?
?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:1:294663869:22ADE41AE5315E4
36E0B22FC0E8007EF

Becomes:
https://usd.swreg.org/cgi-bin/s.cgi?s=47156&p=471561&v=0&d=0&q=1&rc=45K2D464
EW&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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