Hi Gimp-user,

Has anyone run into a good online tutorial on icon creation with GIMP?

Any tricks on resizing icons from 64 to 32, or changing colors?

Thank you.

Hi,
D> Has anyone run into a good online tutorial on icon creation with GIMP? D> Any tricks on resizing icons from 64 to 32, or changing colors?

I normally use imageMagick w/bash for batch processing, but I ran across Dave's Batch Processor for Gimp, and thought others might find it useful.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html

I found some helpful information on icon creation at the Tango project, specifically the suggested workflow. http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines#Suggested_Workflow_.26_Support_Files

I had my base icons at 64x64, and wanted to resize to 32x32 and change the main colors, like red to green. The resizing part is the hardest. I'm not sure it can be done without touchup. The FX-Foundry has Step Resize, and that seems to do a better job than just resizing once. I just couldn't seem to get good results w/imageMagick, no matter what filter I used. I tried using InkScape (import/export) to see if that made any difference. I used Gimp's Colors->Map->Rotate Colors to change the basic color scheme. I've always wanted to use Gimp to create all kinds of icons for applications.

Hi,

RP> check this:
RP> http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Creating_Icons/ RP> Greetings from Belgrade, Serbia

Thank you.

I was going through the tutorial and tried the antialiasing. I took a fuzzy circle brush #5 and changed the opacity to 40. The first time I tried it, I clicked and dragged, stopped, and clicked again. That's when I got a different shade. But it didn't look like the example in the right image. Is the trick, to get the various shades, to click often and overlap?

Along this line, I wanted to created a rectangle border w/rounded corners. I thought one way might be to: (1) select->round rectangle, (2) select->border, (3) edit->fill with fg color. The corners are jagged, not antialiased. What did I miss? :-)

Thank you.