This is my second GlowIcons collection. I received a lot of encoureaging
mail concerning my first collection. Thank you for your support.
These icons are in OS3.5 iconformat and don't contain any NewIcons data.
You will need OS3.5 to be able to use these. I'll never make NewIcons
versions of these, because I encourage you to buy OS3.5. However, there is
a PNG-picture in this archive that will show you what the icons will look
like.
None of these icons are fully drawned by me. I just copied some parts from
the other icons and pictures. So don't credit me for these. However, I spent
quite some time antialising and repixeling scaled icons. If you scale a
picture in small size, the quality isn't always too good. Maybe someday I
will make something from the scratch.
You may notice that some of the icons or parts of them are from the Matt
Chaput's first GlowIcons archive (WCPComplete.lha) that appeared on Aminet
in 1998. It was a preview collection and wasn't by no means complete.
Icons used standard NewIcons V4 -palette and many of them lacked a proper
selected image. I remapped some of the icons to OS3.5-palette and tried my
best to draw them ready.
I don't consider myself as a gfx artist and I'am just learning the technique
of antialiasing by hand. Technique that is, in these PhotoShop-times, saddly
forgotten.
These icons use standard 32 colors OS3.5 GlowIcons-palette. As many of you
may not know what the palette is. I will put it's RGB-values here:
0. 170,170,170
1. 0,0,0
2. 255,255,255
3. 227,227,277
4. 198,198,198
5. 170,170,170
6. 138,138,138
7. 106,106,106
8. 73,73,73
9. 41,41,41
10. 173,173,240
11. 127,137,194
12. 82,102,148
13. 36,66,102
14. 117,219,110
15. 86,177,90
16. 56,136,70
17. 25,94,50
18. 201,173,159
19. 159,133,114
20. 117,93,68
21. 89,60,31
22. 145,54,130
23. 170,104,162
24. 194,153,194
25. 239,231,20
26. 223,186,69
27. 219,117,65
28. 223,53,53
29. 130,0,0
30. 117,225,240
31. 89,185,180
There is also a ILBM-palettefile in the the archive. As you can see there
is two same grays (170,170,170) in the palette. first one is for background
and WB will show it TRANSPARENT. Another gray is intended to be used on
inner parts of the icons. So remember to check that you are using a proper
gray in your icons. Also if you are using transparent gray in inner parts
of your icons that shouldn't be transparent then IconEdit's "Add glow" gives
bad results. The order of the colors in the palette isn't important,
because IconEdit saves icons only with the colors that are used in the icon,
but be careful to choose the right gray for trasparency in IconEdit.
As the new iconsystem in OS3.5 supports icons up to 256 colors, some of you
may think why bother to remap all icons to use the same standard palette. I
have some good reasons to explain why:
1. 256 color icons are dead slow to load. Even with 060 and gfxcard.
2. The "general look" of the GlowIcons stays more easily the same that Matt
Chaput has intended.
3. There is still some poor souls with AGA who will appreciate that icons
don't use more than 32 colors.
CU on better bits!
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Kind regards,
Jaakko Oranen - jackson@mbnet.fi
Team AMIGA
A4060/82MB/15.2GB/CV3D/DelfLite/OS3.5
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