Tuts+ Premium - Icon Design, Rockstar Icon Designer + Icon Resource

Book

Rockstar Icon Designer by Kate McInnes

Veteran icon designer Kate McInnes introduces you to the wonderful world of icon design, so you too can become a Rockstar Icon Designer!

In this book Kate shares with you her experience and expertise by

covering everything from the history and theory of icon design, to best

practices and methods. She?ll also take you through the whole process of

creating your own icon set, and walk you through actual tutorial

exercises where you?ll design icons from scratch.

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Icon Design Tuts+ Premium Course

Icons can be the cornerstone of any good design. They?re the symbols that guide users and the design elements the set the tone of a design. Yet, icons need to be simple and versatile for a number of uses. Author of Rockstar Icon Designer and Editor of VectorTuts+ Kate McInnes will walk you through the fundamentals of good icon design and advanced techniques to create cohesive icon sets. Some topics included in the course:

??? Planning the concept for a cohesive icon set

??? Creating and refining icons in Adobe Illustrator

??? Working with multiple artboards

??? Advanced icon drawing techniques

??? Working with perspectives

??? Finalizing and polishing finished icons

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Icon Resource - Learn how to make perfect icons for Mac OS X and Windows

Picture Perfect Icons

Icons for desktops can be small feature guides or large application icons chock full of detail - a giant canvas, just waiting to be filled and nicely detailed can be very intimidating. Don?t worry, though: Icon Resource will show you how to fit your vision into those power- of-two pixel size documents, one shape layer at a time.

iPad and iPhone

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Built to Scale

Icons come in many shapes and sizes; from glyphic pictograms to elaborate ?realistic? HIG-compliant OS X and Windows icons, Icon Resource covers sketching them out, modeling them in just Photoshop or similarly featured software, and ensuring they kick ass at all intended sizes ? including fitting them into cramped spaces.

Theoretically Academic

Icon Resource doesn?t just let you figure out the design methods and step-by-steps for pretty pictures, it also tells you a bit about the background of icon design, the guidelines you have to adhere on various platforms, and teaches you common pitfalls so you can prevent those nasty ?redesign situations?.

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