Icon Drawing Experience

First, choose icon Production tools;

The most popular icon design industry, professional icon/ico icon production software--axialis IconWorkshop.

　Second, the establishment of icon production theme;

Software icon is the image of software spokesperson, want to let users notice your icon, and through the icon to quickly understand the actual role of the software, which requires icon icons must be intuitive, characteristics, beginners have to understand the relevant application of the essence of the first.

　　Third, the choice of icon to make icons style;

Generally speaking, icon has three kinds of expression: image performance, text performance, graphic combination performance. Next we start with the play of this article-how to use the Professional Icon Production tool for icon making.

1, the pure image icon production method.

Open the IconWorkshop, the beginner can obtain the icon image material in three ways--import the local image material which you prepare from the iconworkshop outside, the selection IconWorkshop Manager provides the free image material, Self-drawing icon image in IconWorkshop Panel (PS if your drawing ability is not strong, I recommend you use the first two methods).

After the image in the IconWorkshop opened, the beginning of the specific icon production, the completion of the icon format to save icons, pure image icon production results:

Image selection is appropriate, like the image of the CD and the headset, the user can see that the video player

2, the Pure Text icon production method.

The text is concise and clear, directly to tell you who it is, is the most intuitive way to show the meaning of the icon. For pure text icon production, first of all, to prepare a text-only picture material, or in the IconWorkshop image editing panel using the "Add Text" (shortcut key ctrl+t) function, enter the relevant text, and then "New Macintosh icon from the image", After the completion of the Save icon format icons, pure text icon production results:

3, graphic combination of icon production methods.

Graphic combination of the icon is very vivid, not only to show the specific image of the software, but also contains intuitive text expression, but made a little difficult to make a point, beginners need to grasp the combination of graphics and text scale.

Again, three ways! Open the IconWorkshop, prepare the graphic combination of PNG image material directly to make icon icons, or in the IconWorkshop image editing panel to draw a satisfactory image, and then add text to it, or open a pure image picture, Then use the IconWorkshop editing function to add text to the image.

The following is a combination of graphic icon production results show:

Summary: The use of iconworkshop to make the icon can be produced a variety of icon icons, beginners have seen the icon icons inherent template, relatively open and active thinking, with the help of the IconWorkshop professional icon production tools, and then give full play to the initiative , you can think about how the icon production process of image material collocation, the form is a single image or multiple image combinations, or graphic combination, and so on, using IconWorkshop powerful icon production function to achieve, create different styles icon!