January 14th, 2010 in
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We use icons at a lot of places such as desktop application or favicon for our blog. For those who always change the Windows folder or application icons, you can always search for .ico images format, which is the icon files for Windows.
We had gone through a lot of articles that related to images and icons. But if you are new to our blog, then you may want to refer them back, which i would like to do a summary here:
- Image Optimization tools: This article shares 12 tools for you to optimize and reduce the size of your images. They may not be important for you, but these tools are essential for bloggers and webmasters. As Google put more weight on page loading speed, it is good that you pay some attention on your image size especially if you have many images on your articles.
- Free Icon Editors: 6 useful and free Icon Editors for you. Useful when you don’t want to install or fire up your Photoshop. Some of them are even portable, which mean you can carry them along with your USB flash drive.
But, if you want to use your own images as icons, then you may need some software/utilities to convert these images to .ico extension. Today, we are going to look into 5 different methods to convert your images to icon files.
Desktop Image to Icon Converters
SimplyIcon allows you to create icon files by drag and drop your images on to this application. This is a portable application and it requires .Net Framework 2.0 to run.
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January 11th, 2010 in
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Bloggers, especially web designers use Social Media sites to promote their articles and services. Promote your articles through social media is easier and you can see the results in a short period of time.
So, how to get your readers to promote your articles to their social media friends? One of the best method is integrate these social media buttons to your blog. These buttons should fit well with your design. Although you can hire designer to design unique social media buttons for your blog, but using free social media icon sets is a good choice especially when you are under budget.
In this article, we are going to share 33 Beautiful Social Media Icon Sets and we hope this collection can save your time searching online.
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December 21st, 2009 in
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Last week, we shared about 66 beautiful Christmas Wallpapers. How is your Christmas holiday preparation? This is the time when us, designers are busy with the projects. A lot of clients want to do a redesign in order to add some Christmas and winter look and feel for their sites.
So, i believe this is the time for us to do a sharing and roundup for Christmas resources. Today, we are going to do a roundup for various resources including Tutorials, Icons, Designer Materials, Wordpress themes and Fonts for your Christmas uses. With these resources, you can shorten your design and development time and hopefully can finish your projects before the date.
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Icon design is an essential skill for every web designer. A website or blog with beautiful icons will definitely attract visitors’ attention.
Although we may download free icons or purchase stock icons from the web, but learning the skill of icon design will definitely brings you a lot of benefits. Besides brush up your Photoshop/icon design skills, you will also have custom made icons that suit your website’s design. Some of the free icons are only for non-commercial products or websites. So having your unique icons, you can get rid of these restrictions.
If you are looking for Photoshop Tutorials for Icon Designs, then you had reached to the right place. Here, we collected 60+ Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Icon Design. I am sure you will become a good icon designer after reading these tutorials.
If you are looking for simple icon editors which do not require advance Photoshop skills, then you may want to refer to our previous post about 6 free icon editors.
1. How to Create a Planet Icon Set in Photoshop
2. Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial
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October 26th, 2009 in
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We use icons for our web designs, favicons and also Windows/Mac application. To create or edit an icon, you can use either powerful image editors like Photoshop, Paint.NET, premium icon editors, or just use a free icon editor.
Today, we are going to share 6 Useful Free Icon Editors where you can create and edit your icons for free. Some of them offer advanced features like extract icons from binary for free.
1. Greenfish Icon Editor Pro
Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is a very powerful icon editor. It is portable, with <1.8MB after unzip. It supports layer, able to create animated cursors, offers high-quality filters like Bevel, Drop Shadow and Glow.
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