Creating Button Icons - Best Tool?


Joe_Carrick
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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.

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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?

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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.

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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:

Capture-4.thumb.PNG.df1e3a49180d5ee7afd64379ee521a58.PNG

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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.

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