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Re: [ECS] ECS Ad Image Ingo Pakleppa Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:03:14 -0800

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Making non-square icons is actually quite simple. The icon itself, of
course, is always square. Transparent is simply a "color" that you can
choose in the icon editor.

One thing that is easy to overlook is that if you draw, say, a dark blue
house, you will want to surround it with a white one-pixel-wide line. This
is important to make sure it doesn't disappear on a blue background.
Similarly, if you draw a white house, you will want to surround it with a
black border (for an example of what I mean, look at the standard arrow
mouse cursor - it is surrounded by a black line to make it easily visible
in front of a white background).

Ingo

At 12:52 PM 1/23/99 +0000, Carl Keyes wrote:
>Dan,
>
>I didn't create the globe shot with an icon in mind but I suppose it
>could be modified to be one.
>
>thanks,
>
>carl
>
>Dan Carrington wrote:
>> 
>> I would agree with the comment saying make the icon a non-square icon.
>> Have the world, hand, and house only.  No black box behind it.  If you
>> look at most icons on the desktop nowadays, they are an object shape,
>> not a box.  The rest of the box is transparent.  And don't ask me how to
>> do that in an icon, but it should be do-able as the rest are.
>> 
>> Dan Carrington

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