Joe_Carrick Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 I've seen several Button Creator Tools - but most seem limited in what they produce. Text Only A Selection of Graphic Images Chief's "Default Image" Is there one that you prefer for using with Chief Toolbars? ie: more user defined graphics - but very easy to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 It looks to me like most of chief's default buttons were designed within chief so I just carried on doing my custom ones that way. It beats learning a whole new program anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted July 4, 2022 Author Share Posted July 4, 2022 31 minutes ago, Chopsaw said: It looks to me like most of chief's default buttons were designed within chief so I just carried on doing my custom ones that way. It beats learning a whole new program anyway. So can you explain how you create one using Chief? IOW, what's your typical procedure to create a new button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 37 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said: So can you explain how you create one using Chief? IOW, what's your typical procedure to create a new button? Just draw what you want your tool to look like with all the available tools that you know so well and save it as a 128 x 128 .png image file. Sometimes just an image of the actual library object will work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 i know Rene creates his own icons and has a video for it on his website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I use Paint Shop Pro but any image editing program will work. Just set your canvas size to 128 x 128 as Chop mentioned and you have about 16,000 pixels to work with. It's a bit of an art form to work in such a minimal area but when you get what you like save it as a PNG file and put in in Chief's buttons folder. C:\Program Files\Chief Architect\Chief Architect Premier X14\resources\buttons Some examples: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renerabbitt Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I use photoshop I have a square brush and 3 of chiefs default colors saved. I always start with one of chiefs button icons located in the resource folder within the install directory. I usually draw them using symmetry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
para-CAD Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I used Chief and an app to take specific screen shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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