An icon is a graphic image, small picture, or object that represents a file, program, web page, or command.
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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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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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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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How do I make a good OS X Icon from an existing png
I have this image:
that I would like to make into a nice OS X icon. One that would go in the safaritoolbar or on an iphone. Problem is that they don't use PNG they only look at the shaded parts, so ...
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How do you export a font from Glyphs
I just made some small tweaks to an OTF icon-font (iconic) and now I'm having trouble exporting this modified font. Have I missed something? Can you export from Glyphs to an OTF or TTF?
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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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Why are some details of an icon fuzzy?
I've created an icon in Illustrator for an iPhone app.
When the icon is in the size for the iPhone, parts of the graphic fuzzy. How can I improve the details on the icon? My icon is a clock, and it ...
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Standards when creating Icons
I'm in the process of creating some icons for an application, and find myself coming up with the same question over and over again. Are there any guidelines for how thick the lines should be in an ...
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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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I am looking for point of interest (POI) icons which would be suitable for use with MapQuest
I'm developing a web application for our company that uses MapQuest and we are trying to plot different items on the map. The default MapQuest icon is a purple circle, we need to use different ...
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In Fireworks how to make a pictogram icon with partially overlapping stroke/outline
In Adobe Fireworks CS5 how to make a pictogram style icon like this one:
Or more precisely, how to get the overlapping stroke/outline of the star atop the bottle without using a stroke filter?
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Proper resolution for icons in Windows
I'm making a Java-based program for Windows 7 and I want my application to have a nice logo in the taskbar of windows. I have made a nice logo (in my opinion) but it´s hard to tell what it´s supposed ...
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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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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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Creating an .ico file with multiple sizes - web application
I want to be able to create an .ico file containing a complete set of Windows icons (16x16, 32x32, 48x48, and 256x256). Is there a web application that can do this for me given a png or bmp that is ...
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Looking for an elegant icon-set similar to Glyphish or Glyphicons, but colorful
Does anybody know a decent and modern icon-set similar to Glyphicons that is colourful?
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Is it possible to change the layer visibility (eye) icons to be more readable, in Photoshop Elements 11?
In previous versions of Photoshop Elements, the eye icon appeared as opened or closed to indicate a layer's visibility. In Photoshop Elements 11, the layer's visibility is only indicated by a diagonal ...
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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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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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Align to pixel grid problem
I'm designing small icons for screen, I'm using align to pixel grid. One problem I've encountered is aligning a compound path to the grid.
This is the letter "O", which is a compound path, when I ...
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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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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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Which app icon should i use? [closed]
My app allows the user to choose a color from a color picker or from an image, and has a wooden background (the one seen in these mockups) throughout. I have these 6 icon mockups, and i'd like your ...
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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 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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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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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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Unique icon design for a university map application? [closed]
Most university map apps on Google's Play store seem to just use their university's logo or a generic map icon. Neither way seems ideal, but I'm unable to come up with a better way myself.
How do I ...
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Microsoft Office Icons - At Least 500 x 500
Anybody know where there are some Microsoft Office Icons that are at least 500 x 500 pixels wide and a good resolution to download? I might even be willing to pay for them, I just don't want to have ...
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icons for web technologies [closed]
Hi I'm working on my own portfolio, and so I'd like to have some icons for technologies that I work with. So does anyone know of free icon sets that include css, php, c#, html5 and other web ...
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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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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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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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16x16 pixel icons for commercial use in web apps [closed]
I'm looking for quality 16x16 pixel icons for use in general web applications, that cover common web app concepts like users, links, images, tools, etc. They can be free or paid for, but must be ...
