An icon is a graphic image, small picture, or object that represents a file, program, web page, or command.
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What Windows-based tools do you use to create icons?
I'm working on a project that often needs small (16x16, rarely 32x32), simple, bespoke icons (either made from scratch or as slight modifications of other icons).
Working on a Windows box, I end up ...
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Any good websites that offers free icons or icons to purchase? [closed]
Hi i have the following queries:
Are there any websites that offers free icons for mobile design? As in totally free for commercial use and does not need to link back to website?
Alternatively, are ...
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What icon fits “navigation”?
I just thought about the this: We have dozens of well known icons for nearly each and everything. All those icons normally are inside some sort of "navigation" (bar/menu/etc.). But what's the icon for ...
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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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Where can I find assets and the terms of use for creating buttons/icons with various social network logos?
Sharing icons/buttons are a big thing these days:
(From here)
Are all/most of the icons you see around the web created without explicit permission?
If there is permission granted for the logo, ...
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Suggest an icon for top tracks in a music application
I'm designing an online music player application, and in top bar of the application, we need a "Top Tracks" button. The application is skinned with a Mac OSX theme as of now, so ideally it should be ...
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Where to found web browser Icons? [closed]
I am not sure if this is the right question to ask here. I am looking for all browser icon packs. Searched in google but did not found any good resources. Can you help me with this?
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Designing icons to represent abstract concepts- match test / suggestions
I'm making a site which requires users to review and tag information.
The interface would benefit from icons, but many of the tags represent abstract concepts that I'm struggling to represent. I'm ...
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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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Designing a button with an inset icon style in Photoshop? [closed]
I am using the Glyphish icon set, and I am trying to achieve an "inset" look of the icon in a button in Photoshop. Any recommendation on how best achieve it?
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What keywords would you use to search for more samples of the style of icon in this link [closed]
I'm looking for is a sort of simplified, toon-like style of icons, but these words don't seem to yield search results.
I'm tyring to convey to my designer a certain style of icons and I need more ...
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Guidelines or resources to create an application icon based on typefaces
I've been using an Open Source application for a while now and, given that its current icon looks somewhat basic, I thought it would be great if I could contribute back with a perhaps more ...
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How can I design a domain-specific “actions” icon? [closed]
We are writing an application for road construction management. Think of the guys that plan the lane expansion or road resurfacing that ruins your day. :)
All throughout the application, we have 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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Learning to do icons - any collection of tutorials for a start?
I am a developer and really need to get to grips with graphics.
Even before settling on a specific tool, what I need is somewhere to go and
learn how to do things, such as for instance a "save" ...
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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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Where can I find a better version of this image?
I saw a hard copy of the symbol in the lower left corner of this image and I'm trying to find either a higher resolution version or a vector graphics version. I need something that will look good when ...
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How to represent “all”/“all options”/“show all” as an icon
This to go in a tab. The other tabs show quite separate groups the user might find interesting. This tabs contains all of them.
I've thought about writing "ALL" (capitals seemed more recognisable in ...
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Android Icon Tutorials
I've been trying to find tutorial on to make android icons as for the 2.0+/3.0+ specifications. I've found some based on the old 1.x specs but these are quite outdated. Does anyone have anything out ...
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What are “up-to-date” or “modern” icons?
My icons have been (lightly) criticized as "too 1998-ish":
From left to right: refresh; auto/manual refresh toggle; filters; favorites; alerts.
To what was the critique aimed at? What the critic ...
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The simplest icon to represent a concept
What sort of icon/graphic should I draw to represent a concept. This can be very helpful when I am doing sketching note. Thanking in advance for any input.
Rgds
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Free pixel icon sets on the web?
where I can find very small and clear icons that I can use in a personal (non-commercial) project?
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3D tools to create icons [closed]
I really like icons like those created by SoftFacade.com
I read the interview from one of their founders here: http://www.iconfinder.com/blog/12/
where he mentions that they use "3d tools" without ...
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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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I need some icons etc. designed, but where to start? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best Way To Find Independent Designers?
Problem: I need some graphic design work done.
I'm developing a website with a college friend of mine.
I need a lot of icons, ...
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Remove identical pixels in two layers/images with free software
I've inherited a large set of button icons at work, which I'd like to use in another project, but with a different button background. The trouble is that the original files have been lost in history, ...
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How can I map the colors in a greyscale image to a specific color “gradient”?
Caveat: I'm not a graphic designer and may be misusing some terminology. Please bear with me. :-)
I'm attempting to add color to some greyscale icons (i.e. all three channels are identical). I ...
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Where can I find a customizable arrow button?
I'm implementing an up/down voting system, and I want to find a standard but sleek button with an arrow inside it that you can customize by color, arrow size etc.
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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 ...
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How would you represent “religion” in an icon, neutrally?
I am involved in a web application where items in a list have a category. Each category of an item is shown through the use of an expressive icon. One of the categories is religion.
My coworker, a ...
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Services and resources for creating Android icon(s)
What services/resources, paid or otherwise, are available to android developers who want an icon designed for their mobile app?
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icon / design element database / site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where are some good places to find free stock images?
Are there good central locations for icons / buttons / ui elements?
There are a number of great font databases ...
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How can I ensure my custom font-face icons alias correctly?
I have a set of icons as a custom font and am using them in place of an image sprite.
The issue is the icons alias terribly at low sizes; i.e. the size that they are meant to be in the majority of ...
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New generation of Save icon that is not a “disk”?
Currently, the save icon in almost all applications represents a 3.5-inch disk from the 20th century. An example from Microsoft Office 2010 is shown below:
As we move towards more advanced ...
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Tool for working with cross platform/desktop icon format?
I want to create/edit a desktop icon that must work on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (KDE/Gnome) and mobile devices. Is there a tool that handles all these different formats?
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Range of icon sizes and formats on various operating systems
I would like to know the range of icon sizes allowed in different OSes (such as Ubuntu, OSX) and the default format they use.
For example, windows allows icon sizes from 16x16 to 256x256 and uses a ...
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What are some good resource for programmers to design icons?
I'm a computer programmer, and find myself needing to draw icons frequency. Does anyone out there have any good resources for both the tools and how to design icons?
