Posted on July 1, 2009Drawing Images with Aqua Effect
Drawing a brand-new icon featuring the famous 'aqua' effect is easier than you think - if you have proper tools. You can draw an icon from scratch by only using a free, small and easy icon editor.
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Posted on May 28, 2008An Icon Editor from Siberia
How many Siberian products do you know? There is something in Siberia besides bears and forests. Deep from the heart of Russia comes Sib Icon Editor.
Posted on May 28, 2008Topics on Usability: Creating Hot-Tracking Icons
The usability effect of hot-tracking is more than just looks. Automate the process of creating 'hot' versions of icons to enable hot-tracking in your software.
Posted on March 9, 2008Semi-Transparency Effect in XP and Vista Icons
Shortcuts to modern applications sure look different in Windows XP and Windows Vista. Why? The graphic designers of those products used a semi-transparency effect to smooth edges of the icons in order to better blend with the environment. Can you...
Posted on March 1, 2008Producing Photo-Realistic Icons
Photo-realistic icons can be handy when designing certain types of software products and Web services. While converting an image into icon is easy, creating a good-looking small-pixel-count icon from a high-resolution photograph is not.