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Icon master launches Icon Resource
Although I am certainly not a designer, I love and appreciate good iconography, typography, and other graphical elements. The beauty of the OS is just one of many factors that pushed me over the edge to embracing life as a full-time OS X user in the first place.That said, the process of actually creating my own icons has always struck me as arduous and overwhelming. I'm actually pretty good at Photoshop, but I can't draw a straight line to save my life and that has always scared me off from investigating any further into icon creation.
That's why I'm so excited about the new project from icon designer extraordinaire, Sebastiaan de With. Icon Resource is a new site/service that features high quality screencasts that teach the and explain how to create modern icons using Photoshop. According to Sebastiaan, the screencasts aren't aimed at designers, but instead "intermediate computer users," which makes it perfect for someone like myself.
For € 95 (about $150 USD), users can get a complete IconResource pack that contains screencasts covering not only the history of icon design and icon standards and guidelines, but the entire icon creation process from beginning to end. The screencasts are available in HD or in iPhone/iPod size for portable watching. Additionally, Photoshop files for each tutorial are included and Sebastian offers written documentation as well.
The price point might be a turnoff to some users, but the price is actually on-par with what I have paid for tutorials/books for other design/graphic oriented topics in the past. Sebastiaan has a preview video available on his site, so if you are interested in icon design, check it out!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Danny said 12:46PM on 4-02-2008
Great site, already got the videos.
But errr his name is Sebastiaan de With.
SebastiAAn. Just being picky ;-)
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Christina Warren said 12:53PM on 4-02-2008
whoop! Thanks for correcting me! Fixed it.
mark said 5:46PM on 6-26-2008
if you're done with them, ill buy the set from you
Kent said 1:20PM on 4-02-2008
I think the price is reasonable. From the look of the sample file on the site, the quality of the production is quite high. You get what you pay for. As the article states, you can easily pay that much for a few books.
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Matt said 2:09PM on 4-02-2008
"I'm actually pretty good at Photoshop, but I can't draw a straight line to save my life..."
Hold shift
;-)
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Luigi193 said 5:23PM on 4-02-2008
I was thinking the same thing!
Christina Warren said 5:30PM on 4-02-2008
Touche!
Peter Zich said 1:45PM on 4-02-2008
Looks like great stuff, but €95 is now ~$150.
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Silo said 4:13PM on 4-02-2008
This looks cool and potentially well worth the money. Still, $150 is nothing to sneeze at. Be nice if someone puts out a mini-review of sorts on this...
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