How to Create Vector Drop Shadows in Illustrator
0This article looks at how to keep your Illustrator files ‘fully’ vector and still create an attractive Drop Shadow effect. It’s a straight-forward process to create a nice, feathered, transparent drop shadow in Photoshop, and the same process can be followed in Illustrator too by …
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Icon Design Software: ‘Icon Workshop’ Part II
Icon Scaling What I really love about Icon Workshop is its fantastic scaling engine. I did a comparison in a previous post (Why Fireworks Rocks for Icons), of how the Adobe products render off 16×16 PNG files and the results were different for each product …
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Icon Design Software: ‘Icon Workshop’ Part I
Axialis have recently released version 6.62 of their excellent ‘Icon Workshop‘ Icon Design software so I thought it was a good enough excuse to talk about the software and how I use it. Icon Workshop What does it do? Icon workshop has been around for a …
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The importance of ‘concept sketches’ in Icon Design
I find the most efficient way to produce quality icons is to spend a good proportion of the time allocated for the project, on the initial ‘Style Development’ stage. It might sound pretty obvious but getting this part of the project spot on can save …
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Apple iPhone and iPad App Icon Sizes
Apple’s iPad and more recently iPad 2 have been with us for quite a while now so I thought it about time I follow up on my original iPhone Icon Sizes post and provide a short guide on the required icon sizes for the Apple …
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Step-by-step: How to Design a Custom Icon
This tutorial will explain the process of designing and creating an icon from one of my favourite sets of custom icons. This dark, metallic and slightly glossy set was produced for a ‘button-type’ custom icon design to be used in a PDA driven software application. …
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