Hello!
I am a bit new in the topic of creating icons. I like the hand-drawn style, this is why I made me some icons for my favourite apps. You can see the items in my Picasa Gallery at http://picasaweb.google.com/110196198576872958715/HandDrawnIcons?authkey=Gv1sRgCJrEjpyc7_2_Gg&feat=directlink or you can download them in JPG with 480x480 in my Dropbox at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14389308/Handdrawn.rar .
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I wanna create a theme that looks handmade too. I got no idea how to make those items look good on a background. I would like to use crinkled paper or something as a background. I would really appreciate some help or maybe tipps how to do this.
Thx in advance.
I like the idea!
I have seen something like that for Windows:
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=icons#/d286emb
Here's a wrinkled paper texture that could be used as background.
http://digitalricky.deviantart.com/...38545187?q=boost:popular+wrinkled+paper&qo=15
Maybe lighten it up a little bit, or add a grid.
I used the textuare and some Gimp skills and created a pre-version of the style
I made the icons 110x122 to fit the 1x1 Desktop Virtualiser widget cause I would like it to look like the tiles from WM7. Do you know if I could bring in my own handwriting which I got as a font to make some time or date widgets?
If you've got it as a font, then I think yes.
Also a little suggestion, if you make the icons transparent, then it looks like it's actually on the paper.
What I mean is just have the drawing lines visible, without the white background you used to draw on.
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Is there any WinMo software/application similar to the Iphone ColorSplash application out there? If so, what is called and does anyone have feedback on it?
C.!
Im looking for an app similar or just like this for winmo as well. I know that winmo devices dont utilize the multi touch, but a program similar to this would be dope. Heres a little video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwehbr3MRyQ
Thanks
I fail to see the purpose behind this "cool" app, but for example Pocket Artist can achieve the same effect and much much more.
Just duplicate your picture layer, make the top layer B/W and create a mask, select the mask and paint areas you want to have original color with black (these areas will be transparent so you will be able to see the colorful layer beneath). You get exactly the same result and stylus gives you much more precission than a thumb so you can get color to much smaller areas without zooming in by 1600%.
Any if you want to be just cool, tell me what is cooler - an app to make "colorfuls" in your mobile OR a portable mobile photoshop with almost all the great features and tools as the PC/MAC counterparts
EDIT: I am adding an example I made.
Only the sign and back lights of the cars have color
http://zip.rozepi.name/images/IMAG0027.jpg
And here is a screenshot of layer configuration in PA
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I just bought better cut because I wanted to change my icons. Is there any way to change the icons that are displayed in the drag out tray and not just icons displayed on the home screen?
Edit: How come some android 2.0 icons are pixelated when I try to make them my icons. The market for example, looks great on my computer but as soon as its on the phone it looks awful. Any ideas?
Yes, you have to change the icon png in the apk file. But if you know how to do that you wouldn't need better cut in the first place.
I dont have the SDK yet. Would that also fix the way the icons are displayed? For some reason they are ugly. Even when I downloaded the android2.0 icon pack from the market. Some of the icons in the pack are pixelated.
Here are the icons that are in the icon pack from the market. Notice how some of them look awful. Like market, youtube, gmail, and others.
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Here are the icons that are in the icon pack from the market. Notice how some of them look awful. Like market, youtube, gmail, and others.
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Bump. Nobody knows why??
I'm gonna say it I love the look of WP7, but the rest of the OS is, quite frankly, ****.
Anyone else who likes "typography and squares"? Would someone like to create a minimalistic theme that removes useless 3D "effects", round edges, shadows and false chrome?
Maybe even create tile-like calendar, people and music widgets? Or square skins for Pure calendar and messaging widgets?
Or what about a Sweeter Home theme?
First attempt:
- Pure weather, calendar and messaging skinned
- MusicMod skinned
- Minimalistic top bar
- BetterCut Icons
THANKS UltraLinx for your work, help and inspiration!
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Gimmie. 10char
Uhh....
Sorry but, ewww? lol
volcomdesigns said:
Uhh....
Sorry but, ewww? lol
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You have no taste. Like people with no taste buds... gosh. Life like that must SUCK!
But no really this is nice. I love it!
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I made myself an icon pack to use with desktop visuliser
I just thought I would share it with you all
if I think of more to add I will do
there are lots icons to chose from
all you need to do is save them to a folder on your sd card
and point desktop visuliser to those icons
they are 110 x 122 size
I haven't included any bigger ones, because these are for my own personal use so i didnt bother with various sizes
thanks to Taine0 for the idea
and whoever made the various icons I downloaded from google images
anyway
here they are
I hope you enjoy them
p.s yes I have a thing for skulls which is why I kept the skull image on all files in the background
all files zipped HERE
you can also find these images on my dropbox gallery here
requests are welcome, but may take a little time
any suggestions / tips, feel free as long as its constructive
These look awesome. Thanks!
Oh, does this include the skull icon that is in your profile pic? That is a sweet icon
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Oh, does this include the skull icon that is in your profile pic? That is a sweet icon
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yeah, I left the skull on them all, the foreground image is 95% transparent, so you can still see a little bit of the skull in there
the zip vanished, so i have re-uploaded it, and stored it on dropbox as well just in case
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So here is a little icon set I made for my latest screenshot. Thought I'd release it.
Nothing too original here, I fell in love with space potato icon pack but thought it might never get released for android phones, so pretty much my own take on some of my favourite icons around. just wanted to do them my way and in a collective icon pack. So all credit goes to original artist designs. Nothings a copy and paste apart from the entypo icons
There's 33 icons and a PSD, I probably won't really make any more as it was just a little thing I did for my home screen but thought I'd share it. People are welcome to use the PSD to make more icons.
Enjoy and download here
I won't be making a themed apk version of this icon pack as I use 360 launcher for my setups.
nice one mate, hope this takes off.... be nice to see peeps contributing to this:good:
Its a shame really you're not continuing this
Gr8 icons
Sent from my Katana