Comments on: 180 action bar icons in 25 categories

By: Martin Vereecken

Martin Vereecken — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:50:57 +0000

Hi glod,
I described the workflow in comment nr.5 of this post, you’ll see it’s not magic :-). I use MS PhotoEditor for it, but recently I also started exploring the well-known icon editor from Axialis. It can also do such conversion. Also notice that there’s new stuff added to this, like a reference card and an icondatabase. See “update” section on top of the post.

By: glod

glod — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:22:50 +0000

Thanx for the Icons? How do you Convert the PNG-Files from FamFam into gif? Do you have a Tool for this?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:43:42 +0000

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By: martin.vereecken

martin.vereecken — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:32:19 +0000

Hi Doug,

The workflow…
1) Select the icons I want to include
2) Think about the categories and create folders accordingly
3) Put the png icons in the folders
4) Open every single png and save it as a gif with (surprise!) Microsoft PhotoEditor. This seemed to be the only application that uses a transparent color that isn’t part of the png to replace the transparency in the png.
So, a lot of manual work was needed…

About the restrictions: this is what I found on famfamfam: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. This means you may use it for any purpose, and make any changes you like. All I ask is that you include a link back to this page in your credits.

This is what I did too, and maybe this is the only restriction I’d like to see myself for this set: let people know you got it from here

By: Doug Finner

Doug Finner — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:55:36 +0000

Thank you! I’ve seen Famfamfam’s work and love it. Dealing with the png to gif conversion was just too much of a time waster for me so I tend not to use his designs. You’ve rescued me!

If you can, describe the workflow you used to make the conversion - what tools did you use and were you using canned scripts/processes in the tool, did you write your own processing methods, or…

Thanks again.

FWIW, the site seems to indicate that the icons are for free with no restrictions. Most graphics sites tend to explicitly describe restrictions so I think what you did was well within allowed limits (IANAL)

Doug

By: Joost

Joost — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:43:08 +0000

It’s working now. Thanks

By: martin.vereecken

martin.vereecken — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:06:25 +0000

Thank you for warning me!

Should be fixed now, this was an issue with the download counter. Can you try again please and give some feedback? (might be possible you’ll need to clear your browser cache)

By: Joost

Joost — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:56:15 +0000

You’re download link does not work. It just says “Made it in”.
Using FF 2.0.0.8