[Android Themes] federicolandra:
Hello everyone!

I've decided to start a new thread here, in the Android Themes forum, to teach you how to create your own icons missing in the biggest icons pack ever, called "Vexillum Project" for the MIUI ROM, that contains over 1300 .png files and also to contribute to expand it!

Even if there are hundreds of icons, it may happen that you use apps that don't have the right icon yet. So i've opened this thread where i'm gonna write, step by step, what you gotta do if you want to create them.

I know that there is already a guide on the Vexillum project thread but i found it a little bit confusing and to make it clear i rewrite the guide as good as i can to help you.

Once you have done your icons i pray you to post them on the original thread, so they would be put in the next release of the pack and everyone would enjoy them.

So, i won't write only the metod to create icons and put them in the pack yourself, i wanna collect all the icons developers (designers) in this thread of the Vexillum Project and everyone who would like to become one of them. This would help all the people that have icons requests and, of course, they aren't considered for the tens of post that everyday invade the original thread.

However, people the have requests should write the name of the app they need next to the market link to speed the process of creating.

<<EVERY ICONS DESIGNER CAN WRITE A POST WITH AT LEAST 2 ICONS AND I'LL INSERT THEM IN THE DESIGNER LIST IN THE FIRST POST>>

HOW TO CREATE AN ICON

1. save the model icon to your PC from the net

(model icon = is picture that contains the symbol or the name of the app)

2. download the public template from here

(public template = is a .psd file that, once opened with photoshop, would help you to cut out the icon so it can fit with the other theme's icons)

3. open the

public template

file with photoshop

4. open your

model icon

(source file) with photoshop

5. select the parts of the model icons that you want to keep (with "

Magic Wand Tool

" or other select metods)

6. right click (don't deselect) and choose "select inverse"

7. click the "canc" button on your keyboard and all the parts you don't need will be deleted

8. select the "

crop tool

" on the left

9. on the top, in "width" write "

80 px

" and in "height" write "

80 px

"

10. crop the icon using "maiusc" (on the keyboard) to do a squared crop then click the "V" on the top to confirm

11. select "

rectangular marquee tool

" on the left

12. select all the icon and copy it

13. move to the public template tab you opened before and "

paste

" the icon

14. choose the background color just keeping visible it (click on the little square on the left of the color layer) on the right-bottom layers

15. select the "

sample

" layer (with a green cicle) then right click

16. select "

copy layer style

"

17. select "

layer 1

" (where you paste your icon) and right click

18. select "

paste layer style

"

19. select "

file

" on the top-left then "

save for web & devices

"

20. make sure that on the top-right "PNG-24" is insert

21. save it to your PC and public it on the original thread or below

(if you do more then 2 icons, please make a .zip file when you post them)

<FINISHED>

ICONS DESIGNERS LIST:

-federicolandra

-MetaLord

-callito

-...

(...)

!write below to join in the list!

Attached:

-public template

-4 icons examples

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