DryIcons Blog

Image Batch Processing in Adobe Fireworks

vssr — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:56:47 +0000

Batch processing of images is often a necessary procedure in order to fulfill a certain task quickly and efficiently. The image processing software used to accomplish a batch manipulation process has essential effect to the final result. Recently we had a short tutorial on batch processing of images in Adobe Photoshop. In this short tutorial we’ll go through the important steps of an image batch process in Adobe Fireworks. In Fireworks, the Batch Process sums to three simple steps.

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Multiple page printing from a HTML Adobe AIR Application

vssr — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:01:20 +0000

It’s been almost two months since Adobe released its first official version of Adobe Integrated Runtime — AIR 1.0. AIR provides a pretty flexible way for development of desktop-like applications by the use of web technologies: HTML / JavaScript, and Flash / Flex. In other words AIR allows web programmers to develop desktop applications. I speak from my own experience when I say that web developers have a hard time developing desktop applications.

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ADOBE FIREWORKS and DRYICONS start a collaboration and other exciting news!

Orchida — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:13:21 +0000

Recently ADOBE FIREWORKS and DRYICONS started a successful and productive collaboration. The result of this wonderful experience came in the form of a tutorial called: “Creating an icon in Fireworks”. This tutorial will help you create your own icon in Fireworks CS3 and you won’t believe how easy it is to create a fabulous looking icon! This article is available on the adobe.com website, here’s a direct link.
Check it out, and give us feedback through our blog comments, tell us how your icon creating turned out!

On another note, this month has been the most exciting and by far the most productive period for DryIcons’ team. In case you missed it, let me give you a quick recap of the activities at DryIcons.com for this month.

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Valentine Love

Orchida — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:51:41 +0000

It’s February friends, it’s still winter all right, but if you’re very eager you can definitely smell that subtle spring breeze in the air. It’s the slightest smell, but it’s here, secretly announcing the arrival of glorious Spring, the period of growth and renewal. But that’s not the only reason we’re so fond of February, is it? February is also about romance and love and one special day: Valentine’s Day! The day when candy, flowers and cards are exchanged between loved ones. In that manner, we’re presenting our brand new set called “Valentine Love”.

Because this holiday is so special to all of us - we worked very hard to capture the special holiday feeling and produced 12 high quality web icons, expressing our celebration of love and romance. Our ” Valentine Love” free icon set comes in 32-bit transparency PNG and 32×32px, 48×48px and 128×128px size. (more…)

Image Batch Processing in Photoshop

vssr — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:07:47 +0000

As a designer you’ve probably needed to process a set of multiple images, all in the same manner. A batch processing of images might be a very useful approach in handling this kind of needs. Here at DryIcons we’ve found the use of some kind of a batch image processing tool necessary in order to provide various size icons in a very fast and very high-quality way, so we think it might be useful to share our batch experience through Adobe Photoshop’s Batch.
The presentation will be done using Adobe Photoshop CS3, however things work pretty much the same in any other version (and perhaps in any similar software for that matter) and an average intuition and following the advises described here will probably keep you up on the right track. (more…)

Free Graphics – DryIcons’ coolest new feature

Orchida — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:18:50 +0000

Dear DryIcons users,

Tick-tack, tick-tack…the clock is ticking to start the New Year 2008; it is time to sum things up, and call it a year.

Firstly, we’re happy to share with you that the number of visits to DryIcons.com has multiplied a couple of times this month. So, we’re closing up this month (and year) with a total of over 25.000 visits. Thanks guys, we’re feeling the love!

Speaking of numbers, we did a little counting these days, and we found that DryIcons has already more than 600 unique web icons (627 to be exact), and not just any icons, but Free Icons! If we did manage to develop more than 600 free icons in only two months, you can do the counting what we’ll have in our archives in saaay, 6 months Now you see we really meant it when we promised to make DryIcons.com your on-line resource for free icons! (more…)

Christmas Surprise (4in1)

Orchida — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:48:11 +0000

Only 14 more days till Christmas and we’re already very excited! We have decorated our Chrismas Tree, we’ve been singing Chrismas Carols, we went shopping for Christmas gifts, we watched the snow fall from our window. We’ve been under heavy influence by the festive feeling that only Christmas brings, but at the same time, we’ve been working hard to deliver our special “Christmas Surprise (4in1)” icons set to you.

We named this set “Christmas Surprise (4in1)” because of several reasons. One is that we wanted to make this set our special Christmas present to you, and to make it a surprise we didn’t announce it on our Home page, like we usualy announce our new sets. Second reason why we called this set “Christmas Surprise (4in1)” is because the set itself contains a surprise inside itself…actually, this set consists of 4 different christmas icons sets: “Christmas Ornaments”, “Christmas Rounded Buttons”, “Christmas Notes” and “White Christmas”. (more…)

Hot, fresh icon set from DryIcons’ laboratory!

Orchida — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:48:38 +0000

We’re happy to let you know that our new icon set “Ruby Multimedia” is now available on DyIcons.com.

Ruby Multimedia icon set is the new creation of DryIcons’ laboratory. Using only two colors, red and white, we brought style and class to the next level. This set can find its use in lots of projects and applications. It contains 13 high quality web icons in 32-bit transparency PNG and Photoshop PSD format. They come in 16 x 16px; 24 x 24px; 32 x 32px; 48 x 48px and 128 x 128px size. (more…)

Celebrating 1 month of DryIcons.com and 5.000 visits!

Orchida — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:57:58 +0000

Dear friends,

It’s been a month (and one day) since DryIcons.com first saw the light of day. During this “small” period of time a lot has happened to us personally and our website.

We started DryIcons.com with only 2 icons sets: Aesthetica and Blue Velvet. Today we have 4 icons sets and a new one coming next week! During this month we developed our 2 WYSIWYG icons sets: Classic and Sapphire and additionally worked on a whole new set: Ruby Multimedia. All in all, today DryIcons.com archive consists of 4 icons sets and a total of 340 unique icons.

I don’t know if you noticed, but we also changed DryIcons’ looks a bit. In conversation with our users, and after a personal realization, we decided to remove all Google Adsense from our website, and continue our work without them. Removing them created some serious gaps in our design structure, so we had to redesign the whole home page. Now we have a more stylish and user-friendly home page, and we’re very proud of it!

Of course, our celebration wouldn’t be complete if it wasn’t for you, our visitors. We started off this project out of pure enthusiasm, we had no expectations and no goals, we only wanted to continue working on our icon sets and developing this website. Now, a month later and 5000 visits away, we feel even more thrilled to be doing this, because we know our work is serving its purpose, and because there are people who appreciate what we do. A month later and our goal had set itself: “To make http://dryicons.com/ your on-line resource for free icons, so you don’t have so search any more!”

For those who know how to keep a secret: we’re also working on a “Christmas surprise” icon set, since we’re all starting to sense the holiday spirit and make it our Christmas present to you.

WYSIWYG icon sets are now avaliable!

Orchida — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:45:25 +0000

DryIcons has officially made the WYSIWYG icon set available. Driven by the huge popularization and demand of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web icons, we created these highly useful icons sets and made them available for everyone visiting the DryIcons website. This useful collection consists of two slightly different icon sets: “WYSIWYG Classic” and “WYSIWYG Sapphire”.
The “WYSIWYG Sapphire“, as the name indicates, can find its use wherever you might need WYSIWYG editing or similar actions in your applications. The WYSIWYG Sapphire Icon Set is a part of the DryIcons’ WYSIWYG sequence icon sets, the name is inspired by its specific tone colors giving it an unique ’sapphire’ look. This set contains 47 high quality web icons. They come in PSD and PND file formats, in 128 x 128px size. (more…)