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Sunday, July 04, 2010

I have been wondering how to make an icon, I have seen quite a bit of custom icons, and I just wanted to know how it is possible.

Monday, July 05, 2010

Ckelldo wrote : I have been wondering how to make an icon, I have seen quite a bit of custom icons, and I just wanted to know how it is possible.

Well there was a very good thread about that somewhere but I cannot find it.....

Monday, July 05, 2010

which program do you use?

the "icon" you made just needs transparent borders

Monday, July 05, 2010

Mjuksel wrote : which program do you use?

the "icon" you made just needs transparent borders

I used paint.

Monday, July 05, 2010

paint does not use transparency (unless you use paint from windows 7)

you have to use Photoshop or any other image software to make transparant png files

a good free program is Paint.NET
http://www.getpaint.net/

Monday, July 05, 2010

Gimp is another good one as well. I think of it as the poor man's Photoshop, since it works about as well, but is free.

http://www.gimp.org/

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

GIMP 2.7.1 is unstable at the moment. But it has a neat feature that almost everyone wanted.



Single-windowed interface!

The changelog for 2.7.1 (more detailed) is:
The Layers, Paths and Channels dialogs received a "lock content" button;
· Added layer groups support;
· Improved the export/save functionality;
· Multi-column dock windows are now supported;
· Cleaned up the user interface by introducing two new classes: GimpImageWindow and GimpDockWindow;
· The toolbox-window-hint setting from gimprc was replaced with dock-window-hint;
· Added single-window mode - with tabs! (it is still incomplete);
· Added Photoshop CS4 keyboard shortcuts in Postscript-menurc;
· Better highlighting with the Free Select Tool;
· The program's language can now be changed from the preferences dialog (interface section);
· The Toolbox no longer appears in the Recently Closed Docks list, it is now accessible directly from the Windows menu;
· The desaturate tool received and icon;
· Added a new crop guide overlay: Rule of fifths;
· Improved text editing/attribute settings;
· Alt+Click on layers no longer affects the active layer;
· script-fun's scheme was updated;
· The csource plugin received support for RGB565;
· Added grunge/texture brushes created by Johannes Engelhardt;
· Added more documentation for developers;
· Fixed many discomforting bugs;
· Updated many translations;
· and many more!

For the more adventurous people, they can download the development release of GIMP.
As in currently, many features and plugins are broken, so be extra careful with it.
However, in the near future (mostly on December), the GIMP development team will release 2.8.0 stable, which will include all these new features so far, and with many more improvements and stability fixes.

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

holy stuff single window mode that's amazing
too bad it isn't stable.
but dude as far as I know gimp 2.7.1 installer isn't available yet.
did you compiled it yourself

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

I installed it via a PPA repository on Ubuntu.
Weird, I thought the Windows installer was released too.

Edit: GIMP is not officially supported by the team, but there are who compile the Windows version from the source code. You have to compile it by yourself, I'm afraid.

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Huh... I hadn't even checked to see if there were any major updates for Gimp, I still have an older stable version with the multiple windows...

Nice to know they're putting it all into one window now though, the multiple window thing is a little frustrating at times...

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

This is how GIMP 2.7.1 looks with single-window mode on my desktop.