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Cyberwizzard
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 Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject: Designing graphics like KDE's.... |
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This is starting to annoy me - I see all kinds of programs with slick icon sets or other program graphics which look awesome. I'd like to be able to design stuff like that as well.
Is there a tutorial somewhere explaining where to start with stuff like that? |
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jfb3
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:37 am Post subject: Re: Designing graphics like KDE's.... |
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| Cyberwizzard wrote: | | I'd like to be able to design stuff like that as well. |
So would I. Unfortunately the gene for that talent either can't be developed in me or doesn't exist at all.
I have friends that are able to design and draw, their tutorials were education in a design or art program and training in the profession. |
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Cyberwizzard
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I was affraid one might need a full education to be able to come up with stuff like that 
I was just hoping there would be some magical howto somewhere teaching us how to design the basic icons  |
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boroshan
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| Cyberwizzard wrote: | I was affraid one might need a full education to be able to come up with stuff like that
I was just hoping there would be some magical howto somewhere teaching us how to design the basic icons |
I don't have access to my bookmarks right now, but the tools you'd probably want to use are the Gimp and Inkscape/Sodipodi. Inkscape comes with some good built-in tutorials, and there is a massive manual (book, not man page) for the Gimp with loads of examples. Do a bit of googling for the Gimp as well - there are a couple of "how to make shiny 3-D buttons tutorials out there.
There is quite a lt to learn for all tree packages, so don't try and absorb it all at once. The best thing to pick a task and learn what you need to accomplish that, then move on to the next one.
Shouldn't need a degree to learn the stuff. Just don't panic when they start talking about "bezier curves" and you'll be fine
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Cyberwizzard
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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For imaging i'm still a windowze whore cause I keep using Paint Shop Pro - perhaps its time to learn the Gimp
I'll look into the Inkscape/Sodipodi thing - never heard of it, perhaps time to learn these things
If you find those bookmarks, please post them here and thanks! |
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boroshan
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| Cyberwizzard wrote: | For imaging i'm still a windowze whore cause I keep using Paint Shop Pro - perhaps its time to learn the Gimp
I'll look into the Inkscape/Sodipodi thing - never heard of it, perhaps time to learn these things
If you find those bookmarks, please post them here and thanks! |
Well all three packages are in portage. Inkscape is a fork of Sodipodi - they're both scaleable vector packages
http://www.inkscape.org/
http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
http://www.sodipodi.com/
And the Gimp is... well I never used paintshop pro so I can't really comment. But there are plenty of howtos:
http://www.gimp.org/docs/
http://gug.sunsite.dk/?page=tutorials
That should keep you going for a while 
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