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General name for these type of images
What is the general name for these images with lots of icons and small items sketched (or outlined), they are quite popular these days. Evernote and Whatsapp for example uses them:
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Add a new layer to a set of button icons
A designer has created (for money) a set of button icons (Facebook, Settings, ...) for me, where all buttons have the same rounded rectangle outline:
Now I need to add few more buttons, for example ...
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Photoshop action to export icon resources for OS X app?
Is there a photoshop action for exporting a 1024x1024 canvas as all the required icon resources for a OS X app?
Seems like something the design community would have made, but I can't find anything so ...
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How to get started for a HAL 9000 [closed]
I really would love to make my own HAL 9000 icon, and there are plenty of them out there, seemingly created from scratch in Photoshop.
Could someone point me out, how to get started on this? What ...
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How to clone the iPhone Camera app's gradient?
I have finished the development of an app. Now I have to worry about the icon ;-)
To align with the built-in app, I want the gradient of the my icon background looks like the built-in Camera app, ...
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How to save padding around an icon and make it a part of it - Photoshop CS3
I have an icon with the dimensions 24px × 23px. The canvas is 24px × 24px: There is 1 transparent pixel at the top of the icon.
After I use the rectangular marquee tool to copy and paste the icon to ...
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Creating graphics for Android/iOS/Mobile Devices
I've created icons many times now with tons of great information I've learned here at GraphicDesign StackkExchange. Now, I'm finally putting together my first real application that will go public on ...
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Create an “pressed in” look
I'm trying to recreate a fairly common look, but I really like how it is executed on getpebble.com
The getpebble.com icons are on the left, and my disaster of an attempt is on the right. As much as I ...
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How to make red icon on gray background less jarring?
My app has a button to record or play videos. When there are problems with this feature, we notify the user by overlaying an exclamation point. This "red !" UI works OK elsewhere in the app but on ...
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Help finding or making a white flag glyph [closed]
I'm more of a programmer than designer so forgive me. I am looking to sharpen my UX design skills though.
I found plenty of websites that give impressive sets of glyphs and icons, but I've been ...
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Sharpening iOS Icons
I'm creating an iOS app and have a couple custom icons for my navigation bar. The first one is a plus sign and that came out pretty well. I also have a refresh icon and it's not as sharp as the plus ...
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How to draw a image transparent in photoshop?
This arrow is transparent image.
I want to draw an icon like this image (transparent) in Photoshop.
The idea behind this is I want to colour the icon by using gradient tool in my app.
It would ...
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Jagged lines on my icons
I'm creating an app and I am trying to create some icons for it. I made the icon in AI, changed the color of the icon in Fireworks, and then resized the icon to the exact size I needed in Photoshop. ...
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tips on designing high-quality semi photo-realistic icons that attempt to be modelled 3-D objects
I'm an amateur graphic designer. When I'm free I do some simple graphic designing with Photoshop and Illustrator (mess around with the pen tool, add style to a layer, adjust hue of an image, etc).
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Software used to create Icons, Buttons for Mobile Application [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What software is best for GUI design?
Which is the best way to create Icons, Buttons for Mobile Application development ?.
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How to save as ico in Photoshop CS6
This plugin to save as .ico in photoshop has been around for a while, but I can't seem to make it work for CS6. According to this question in the Adobe Forums, the plug-in works if installed in ...
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iOS App Icon design - the rounded corners issue
The problem:
The anti-aliased rounded corners of my app icons show, due to the transparency, some pixels of the underlying background.
My quick solution:
Instead of exporting with "intact" corners I ...
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How do I create these light, glow and “smoke” effects in Photoshop?
I was browsing Dribbble when I noticed a few shots using an effect which appears to look like a magical beam of light, or a "magical smoke" and I could not find out how to create such an effect. If ...
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Photoshop Black / White Filter
I have a bunch of social media icons that are in color that I'd like to make grayscale. I've opened them all in Photoshop and am applying a black and white adjustment layer to each one. The problem ...
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How can I reduce/smooth the colors of an image?
I have an drawing that was created with colored markers. I've scanned it and would like to use it as clip-art/icon style image.
I'm wondering how I can smooth out the colors of the image such that ...
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Create icons from sprite image
If I've a big sprite png image with 40x40 icons. How I can convert it to separate images for each icon with photoshop or gimp?
As the sprite is quite big I would prefer and automated method.
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New generation of Add New icon that has no “+” (Plus) sign [closed]
could anyone suggest me a new way to represent the icon "Add New" without using any form of plus symbol.
For example, say Add New Quiz. How could I represent this as an icon without using any form of ...
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Creating images for websites; controlling precision of drawings?
I'm trying to break myself into making my own graphics for websites and I've come to my first roadblock.
I need to make the commonly used icon that resembles >> in photoshop. The problem is ...
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How to combine multiple png icons into one transparent iconset
What software can I use to combine multiple transparent png and icon files into one transparent iconset?
Example:
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Working on Small Resolution Images in Photoshop ( icons ) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to resize icon sets in Photoshop?
I want to get a solution for a question that has been in my mind for a long time.
For the past 2 years, several times I was ...
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Need advice on reducing icon size without loss in detail [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to resize icon sets in Photoshop?
I'm redesigning the icon for my Android application.
I designed it at 512x512 and then rescaled it to 96x96 and 32x32. However, it ...
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Create iOS Settings App Icon?
I've searched and searched, but I'm looking to find a tutorial on how to make the outside border of the Settings app icon in iOS. Or the whole icon, I like the effect.
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Is there a way to extrude an image in Photoshop?
I want to create a new icon for my application according to the new Android Design Guidelines. Is there any way to get my 2D silhouette and automatically extrude it to create the 3D effect?
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How to resize icon sets in Photoshop?
When looking online for icons to use on my websites, I often find very well designed free icon sets.
However, often these icon sets are only available on a single size - for instance the icon set ...
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Which icon is best for these lines “ Evolve— Execute— Exhilarate” [closed]
I am creating a websites for my client in which he wants to show his business process.
Here is what he said
Business mantra refers to the slogan we follow that is Evolve--
Execute-- ...
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What's a fast way to split an icon pack delivered as a psd?
I have downloaded the Icon Sweets 2 icon pack and I cannot seem to fulfill the seemingly very easy task of exporting individual PNGs for each icon (contained in a separate layer). Using the built-in ...
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Where to start with icon/graphic design?
I'm interested in learning graphic design. I'm able to draw using pen and paper, but have never really done it on a computer. I've looked for books on Photoshop, but all I could find were books that ...
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Photoshop or Illustrator for Icon Design
Photoshop and Illustrator compared, both expose nearly the same possibilities to create icons except that Illustrator uses a vector based system. In which situations is which product more reasonable ...
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Tutorial to Create a Wunderlist-like Icon in Photoshop
I'm developing an application for iOS and Android and I love the style of the Wunderlist icon, so I want to know if there is any tutorial about how to create this "rounded wooden drawer" effect in ...
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Best Way to Build & Design Buttons for iOS in Photoshop? [closed]
I have been getting into designing interfaces for iOS, mostly iPhone and iPhone 4 retina display. I'm wondering how I should go about creating interfaces, the most standard way? I have been using the ...
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Who made these icons?
I've seem these icons on lots of sites, so I assume they are publicly available and free to use.
Does any one know who designed them, and the official site? And where can I find the Photoshop ...
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Graphic icons for using with “Appreciate this Post” & “Follow updates on this post”
What could be good graphic icons for using with "Appreciate this Post" & "Follow updates on this post" in a social web application?
Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
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Icon 16x16 best way
Anyone know a good tutorial for learning to do 16x16 icon?
The PROBLEM is when I'm doing in photoshop or illustrator and export the image in that size have like a transition effect.
Example : ...
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Convert icon to a transparent png
I have a set of icons that I resized to 30x30. Now I want to use them for my iPhone TabBar as specified here:
http://www.idev101.com/code/User_Interface/sizes.html
How can I make these transparent ...
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Is it possible to render readable screen type at a size of 3px?
I just created an icon in fireworks with a size 17*15 (which is small) and when i try to label the icon the minimum size of the text is 8 pixels which is very big . I want to have a label with text ...
