Re: Icon creation tool
Re: Icon creation tool
- Subject: Re: Icon creation tool
- From: Chris Williams <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:57:48 -0700
- Thread-topic: Icon creation tool
All excellent points, but for may uses, I prefer to simply google "mac
icons". There are many people making icons. Some are freeware, some are
quite inexpensive shareware, some are more expensive. Like most things, you
get what you pay for. But you can find a wide range of them and often don't
need to reinvent them.
On 7/8/07 5:47 PM, "Laurence Harris" <email@hidden> wrote:
> The vast majority of developers don't have the talent and skills
> necessary to produce good icons for Mac OS X. (And that's okay. No
> one is expected to do everything well.) Back when all you needed were
> a few 32x32, 8-bit icons for the application and documents, you could
> often work up something yourself that looked decent. Now, with
> 128x128 32-bit icons with transparency and toolbars, homemade icons
> really stand out, and not in a good way. Photoshop doesn't make you
> an icon designer if you don't have the talent and experience any more
> than a box of brushes and paints make you an artist. No software will.
>
> Toolbar icons, being smaller than Finder icons are a little more
> within the reach of those of us lacking graphic design skills, but
> they bring different challenges to the table: quantity and
> consistency. While you may only need two or three Finder icons, you
> might need 10, 20, or more toolbar icons. Not only do you then have
> to create a bunch of decent-looking icons, but they all need to share
> a common look, or theme. Ten nice icons in a toolbar that have 10
> different looks will still look bad.
>
> If at all possible, you should consider hiring a professional to do
> your icons. Use some you whip up during development so you know
> exactly what you want when you talk to a designer, but let someone
> who's really good at icons do them. The good icon artists aren't
> cheap, but if you consider the value of your time and how long it's
> going to take you to create something that looks decent, it doesn't
> cost that much more to get something that looks awesome, and you can
> use that time doing something you actually do well.
>
> Note, though, that lots of people already know what I just said, so
> the better icon designers tend to be booked up. Don't assume these
> guys are waiting around to get started on your icons. They're busy.
> Contact them ahead of time to determine their availability so you
> don't end up waiting for icons to release your product.
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