Working on a legacy .NET web application we have the following issue: graphical themes are made of hundred png
files. When it comes to create a new theme (ie. same icons but new set of colors), we take each png
file and change its HUE using paint.net
. It a very long process with poor results (images are pixelated, transparency is hugly...).
Using Adobe Creative Cloud
we are trying to create a master PSD file that will contains all graphical elements. With well-named layers we will export them to individual files. We'll work with shapes and not "pixellated png" so changing color would be easy and clean. Moreover we will be able to change all icons' color in a row.
Icons aren't the same size and most of them doesn't "fit" content: for instance, one icon file is 27x27
with graphical content sized 13x18
at bottom right corner. Photoshop fits the layer to the graphical content: how to force it to a size of 27x27
and keep transparent content around the 13x18
painted area? Size can be 27x27
or 20x20
or 50x10
or ...