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| * Cleanup * Composition * Community Control '''Cleanup:''' Pixel level optimisations of icons so that panels, nautilus and the majority of the desktop are crisp and most importantly sexy. |
* IconCleanUp * IconComposition * ArtworkCommunityControl '''IconCleanUp:''' Pixel level optimisations of icons so that panels, nautilus and the majority of the desktop are crisp and most importantly sexy. |
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| '''Composition:''' You don't have to be a good illustrator to know what works and what doesn't work for you. | '''Icon Composition:''' You don't have to be a good illustrator to know what works and what doesn't work for you. |
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| '''Community Control:''' Definitely the most important task of all is making sure everyone involved is having fun. | '''Artwork Community Control:''' Definitely the most important task of all is making sure everyone involved is having fun. |
This article has been written to aid the community in assisting with icon development. It points out the slow areas of development and the easiest places for anyone to assist especially you !!
The ArtTeam can be extremely beneficial if members assist with one or more of the following tasks.
IconCleanUp: Pixel level optimisations of icons so that panels, nautilus and the majority of the desktop are crisp and most importantly sexy.
Cleanup is essentially a time consuming role that requires a fair bit of optimisation and guess work. fortunately its lots of fun; turning the music up loud and pushing pixels for an hour a day will accomplish huge advances for the final icon set.
Also, this is one of the last steps in the icon creation process. so the final fit and finishing decisions are at the tip of your pencil, selection tool or sharpen filter.
Icon Composition: You don't have to be a good illustrator to know what works and what doesn't work for you. There are alot of graphical assets within the SVG icons and alot of icons not yet done that only need someone to make the required file with the right composition.
For example, if the icon for a PDF file type has been done but the application icon for a PDF viewer is missing. It may be as simple as removing the relevant assets from icons that contain PDF-specific assets and composing them with assets from icons that contain document-viewer/browser assets like a magnifying glass.
Creating the right composition is important. You need to know Shape, Balance and Suitability and you don't have to be an artist to contribute many many icons for the final set.
Artwork Community Control: Definitely the most important task of all is making sure everyone involved is having fun.
Opinions are important and we need them however too much negativity could discourage people who would otherwise be great contributors.
Being a critic of artwork requires generosity, justification for negative opinions backed up by solid suggestions for improvements. We are effectively writing Ubuntu's signature for hundreds of applications so Ideas and insight are both worthy of being passionate about. Lets just be supporting and not scare anybody off.
IconGuide (last edited 2008-08-06 16:29:27 by localhost)