I'd really love to see someone do an icon tutorial in GIMP - both how to make image and text interesting. Do you know of anyone making (pretty) icons in GIMP?
I know nothing I could be wrong, seriously. I don't use Photoshop, myself. I know that there's something in Photoshop, something to do with colour, that one can't do in GIMP, but I can't remember the name.
I want to learn how to make tiny text readable like in your icon - when I make tiny text in icons, it always looks crap, not pretty like that 8-) I have a few rules of thumb I figured out for that, by trial and error: 1. Never put the text in before the icon is shrunk to 100x100; shrinking text always makes it look awful. 2. Some fonts look better than others at tiny sizes. At one point I went through my fonts, trying them out in GIMP at 10-point size and at 14-point size, and made lists of the ones that looked good that small. I should probably do that again; I've gotten more fonts since then.
I wish GIMP had a way of putting fonts into collections or categories, rather than having one huge long list. Oh well.
2. Ooh, that'd be a handy list! Might you consider posting those (even the old list, since those are probably the fonts I/most have, anyways) e.g. at gimp_gate?
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I could be wrong, seriously. I don't use Photoshop, myself. I know that there's something in Photoshop, something to do with colour, that one can't do in GIMP, but I can't remember the name.
I want to learn how to make tiny text readable like in your icon - when I make tiny text in icons, it always looks crap, not pretty like that
8-)
I have a few rules of thumb I figured out for that, by trial and error:
1. Never put the text in before the icon is shrunk to 100x100; shrinking text always makes it look awful.
2. Some fonts look better than others at tiny sizes. At one point I went through my fonts, trying them out in GIMP at 10-point size and at 14-point size, and made lists of the ones that looked good that small. I should probably do that again; I've gotten more fonts since then.
I wish GIMP had a way of putting fonts into collections or categories, rather than having one huge long list. Oh well.
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2. Ooh, that'd be a handy list! Might you consider posting those (even the old list, since those are probably the fonts I/most have, anyways) e.g. at
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http://www.katspace.org/graphics/digitart/icon_fonts/
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