How to draw recolorable icons
Author: Denis Kortunov
18 June 2009
What is a recolorable icon? It is a picture which is capable of changing its color, hence is the world recolorable. There are several ways of getting there. I will tell you about a simple technique that we used while developing Iconza. In essence it’s a web application that provides for changing colors of icons followed by generating the required files.
For example, we want to draw a recolorable folder. We take our favorite vector graphics editor and draw a folder.
How do we go about making this picture recolorable? The secret is that the picture contains two bitmap files: semitransparent flashes/shadows and a color backing at the bottom. So we have the color backing shine through the semitransparent mask. The mask should look like this:
How do we draw such mask? It is quite easy. You take the colored backing and put flashes and shadows on top....Read this awesome post! Turbomilk
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