Free clock icons available for download.
Please visit “Recent Work” pages on SETCHIN Freelance Consulting site to download. Enjoy!
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Monday, 3 January 2011
Free Candle in the dark Icons for Download
Another free icons of the candle in the dark with bonus free New Year Postcard.
Please visit “Recent Work” pages on SETCHIN Freelance Consulting site. Enjoy!
Free Coffee Cup Icons for Download
I recently published different size PNG and ICO icons of the Coffee Cup image I created in Inkscape.
Please visit “Recent Work” pages on SETCHIN Freelance Consulting site. Enjoy!
Sunday, 2 January 2011
Create icon with Inkscape and IcoFX
Inkscape and IcoFX are two open source and freeware graphical programs. Inkscape is a powerful vector based program, similar to Adobe InDesign or Corel Draw. It can be used to create an image. IcoFX does work of importing these images created with Inkscape and saving them as ICO files. In this post I will show how to create ICO files of different sizes based on the image below I created in Inkscape.
Step 1: Create a 64x64 Inkscape document
Open SVG source file of the image in Inkscape. Select the whole image you want to make an ICO from and group all selected objects of the image with (Ctrl+G). Copy grouped image and create a new Inkscape document from File menu. For this example I selected File>New>icon_48x48. Paste copied image into new Inkscape Window. With my image I had to zoom out and resize copied object to fit icon size page. Make sure you lock the width and height to make scaling of the image same. Also it is handy to use Align and Distribute tool to set object in the centre of the icon. In the result you should get something like shown below.
Step 2: Export Inkscape Icon into PNG file.
Now we can save our icon as PNG image. Select File>Export Bitmap (Shift+Ctrl+E). In the Export Bitmap dialog click Export area Page, Bitmap size change to 64x64 pixels for width and height. Give it a name and the path where to save a file. Click Export.
Step 3: Create ICO file with IcoFx
Start IcoFX and Open our icon in PNG file. Make sure you tick 48x48 size of the image in the New Image dialog as shown below.
The image will be imported and we will be able to save it as in icon. Click File>Save As and save it as an ICO.
Finish
Congratulations! We created our icon with the two powerful programs Inkscape and IcoFX.
To practice a bit more, try creating icons of different sizes. Enjoy!
References
 | An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. |
 | IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. |
| Joomla Web Designer | Create your own custom Joomla favicon using Inkscape |
| Inkscape Tutorials | Creating a Coffee Cup with Inkscape |
Friday, 29 October 2010
Using Twitter for Business
We all know that success of any business is in its people. The wider network of contacts business has, the more people will know about it and the greater chances some of them will use services business offer. With raise of networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. more companies are trying to workout if these sites are suitable for use in the business marketing, increasing level of support, and getting better connections with their customers. In this post I am listing some popular sources from Internet about using Twitter social networking site for business.
Internet Sites about Using Twitter for Business
Twitter 101 for Business — A Special Guide - This is a very interesting site providing a lot of useful information like guides, best practices, case studies and handful references to many other resources like books, tips and tricks, and links to other related sites
Using Twitter for Business – a free e-book from Duct Tape Marketing
50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business – This is an excellent post listing the steps to get started in ides about what to tweet and how to survive in the information overload.
4 Ways Companies Use Twitter for Business – another post with business ideas for Twitter
How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business – one more if not enough
Twitter Tools and Applications
10 valuable Twitter utilities for business users
Twitter Fan Wiki / Apps – a very long list of Twitter applications for any platform
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