I started downloading few brush presets. Now I wonder, how to make new photoshop brush presets(like the shape of brush, etc.)
Installing Photoshop brushes step by step:
Search for a basic brush set and find one you like on an internet (a few good sites – DevianArt, Creative Market, Design Cuts)
Download the .ZIP file to your computer
Use a ZIP Extractor to open the file and make sure there is a ".abr" file in the folder (it’s the only one that matters for you)
Open up the Photoshop in order to install your brushes
Click on the Brush tool, to bring up the brush bar on the top of the screen
Click on the small downward arrow in the brush bar which opens up the Brushes Preset Menu.
Click on the gear symbol, then "Load Brushes” and find the brushes you have just downloaded (these are in the .apr file)
Double-click on the .apr file to install your brushes (This will automatically add your brushes to your preset menu)
You can do the following -
1. Design a brush on a normal canvas.
2. Select the image ( Ctrl + A ) and goto Edit --> Define Brush Preset.
3. Done.
Hope it helped
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I'm trying to customize my IntelliJ editor and have been unable to find the config that corresponds to the background color for the file tree explorer. This same color is used throughout the editor (popups, menu bars etc) and would be nice to be able to change w/ out choosing an entirely different theme.
It can be manipulated by themes but I can't find it anywhere in settings -> appearance & behavior or settings -> editor -> color scheme etc.
Project view background color depends on the theme selected and cannot be changed without changing the theme itself. You can find that information at JetBrains' bug tracker (in several last comments):
IDEA-132299 Allow custom colors for the built-in UI themes (LAFs Darcula and Default):
Now you can develop your own theme and editor color scheme. It's been announced recently in the JetBrains blog: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2019/03/brighten-up-your-day-add-color-to-intellij-idea/
So please follow the instructions in the article and create your own colors.
Certain folders and files will have different colors based on the Scopes.
Also you may use another GUI Theme. You can download custom dark themes in JetBrains' plugins repository. For example "One dark theme" took 2nd place in JetBrains' theme contest.
On contest's page you could find additional 30 dark themes:
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/contest/intellij-themes/2019
I'm referencing the official Eclipse guidelines located here, which in the section "States" contain the information on "Creating the disabled icon state".
Sadly, the first sentences in this section are:
To create this state, you will use the "eclipse_disabledrender_R3V6.atn" action in the Eclipse-style Actions palette. Click here to download the Eclipse-style Actions.
Load the "eclipse_disabledrender_R3V6.atn" into the the Adobe Photoshop Actions palette.
I have no Adobe Photoshop, so I have no idea what that file does (I tried opening it as a text file, but it's nothing readable).
The image for this section is not accessible either, so any information on how to create disabled icons is lost (to me).
I assume it's something like "change saturation to -50 and brightness to +50", but I'd love to have the original actions for a consistent look.
How do I create disabled icons for a given icon?
I managed to get myself a copy of Adobe Photoshop, and this is what the action says:
It's German, so I'll translate the relevant part for whoever might have the same problem:
Hue 0 (no changes)
Saturation -80 (scale seems to be -100 to 100, with 0 the default)
Brightness +40 (on the same scale)
For some reason this action paints a rectangle around the finished icon (RGB 193, 193, 193), but I couldn't find a disabled icon where this was actually done.
Assume that I have an A color with value 0xff0f0f and two basic black and white colors. How can I create quickly a swatch consists of all medium colors between white and A(lighter) and between A and black(darker)?
Thank you in advance!
Edit: I'm practising some pixel-art shading, and I'd like to create a palette(or swatch) consists of limited colors that differ from saturation = 0 to saturation = 1. For example:
Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this in Photoshop alone. If you are willing to pop into Illustrator, you can set up your swatches there and then export them as .ASE which can be loaded into PS.
Here is what I would do:
Open Illustrator and pick your main colors. Place them in a swatch folder.
Select the group and go to the Color Guide palette. Here you will see each of your picked colors going to both light and dark. Under the palatte dropdown menu you can find some useful settings, especially the Color Guide Options, where you can specify the number of steps.
Drag'n'drop the newly generated colors to your swathces palette. Once they are all in place, go to the Swatches palette dropdown menu and select Save Swatch Library as ASE. Save it somewhere logical. :)
Now go to Photoshop and open the swatches panel there. Select Replace Swatches. (Load Swatches appends them) and navigate to your ASE file.
Happy drawing.
PS: I couldn't upload images for clarification because I dont have enough Reputation. Yawn. Will update the answer when I can.
In a form I have an ImageList named MainLogoImageList containing a 100x100 pixel 32-bit colordepth image. That is my app logo.
I am too lazy to set up an icon editor and edit an icon of that logo, or convert the image to an .ICO file. (Ergh, well, I am not allowed to install custom utilities.)
To set my forms' icon, I use
Icon = IconFromImage(MainLogoImageList.Images(0))
in the OnLoad event handler to set the window icon.
In my about box, i have a PictureBox with no image. In its OnLoad event, I use
LogoPictureBox.Image = MyMainForm.MainLogoImageList.Images(0)
Icon = IconFromImage(MyMainForm.MainLogoImageList.Images(0))
to set the About box's icon and content.
So far, so good, the icon looks pretty good for a being created from a 100x100 pixel bitmap.
Is there an easy "no utility required" :-) way to get the icon that is returned my IconFromImage saved into an .ICO file so that it will keep the color depth when loaded as the app icon? I want to use exactly the icon that IconFromImage creates.
Saving it using
Dim S As New FileStream("MyAppIcon.ico", FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Write)
Icon.Save(S)
S.Close()
in the main form's OnLoad event handler and loading that .ICO file as the app icon in VS's project properties dialog yields and icon that is obviously converted to 16 colors, and looks awful.
This is VB 10 Express.
Followed the wise advide to take this home, edit and convert it there.
Gimp#home at work.
Worked fine, looks great.
A codeless solution is better than no solution at all :-)
I have a vb.net 2008 application which has its corresponding icon.
The icon shows correctly except in the taskbar when the "small icon" setting is on.
My vb.net project includes a .ico file which when I see in the IDE includes 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64 and 256x256 bitmaps, in 4, 24 and 32 bits, also 3 .png images in 256x256 32 bits each.
I made the icon myself simply using a 64x64 bitmap and then converting it to .ico, and assigning it to the application in the project properties. I thought windows would use and escalate the corresponding image, it shows even in the file explorer properly in the small icon form, but not in the taskbar.
What's going on or what do I need to do? I'm not very familiar with this. Thanks...
You need to have the correct size/bit-depth version in your icon file for whatever context WinForms wanted (e.g. the form's title bar icon, the system tray icon, the taskbar
icon, or the desktop shortcut icon) to insure it will work. You have to maintain the transparency too.
Read the following article.