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Jaz,

Did you create all the icons on this site on your own? Or, did you get/buy them from some other site? I am looking for some freeware/shareware icons for few of the websites that I am working on right now, and I was wondering where did you get the icons from.

I am not that good in using the icon creating/editing tools, and I am finding really hard to get some free icons that are also good in quality. If I do land on a site that has some good icons, they are only good in 32x32 format. The moment I change them to 16x16 or even 20x20, they become quite bad.

Any suggestions/pointers on where can I get icons like NAO has, that are simple, and of amazing quality?

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye opener.

I drew all icons myself.

SimpleBits sells two small collections of very nice icons. Also the Eclipse IDE has a pretty amazing set of icons, although I don't know about licensing.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

Thanks a lot Jaz. The Eclipse icons are really good. I have recently started using Eclipse and I did notice it's icons, but never realized that since it's open source, I can probably use it's icons for anything that I do non-commercially (I guess).

BTW, which software do you use to create your own icons? I have recently started using Gimp for all my image manipulation needs, but I haven't yet got a hold of many things. I used to use Fireworks earlier, and I found it pretty good, and I kind of miss it now. Fireworks that I used was a licensed copy supplied by my previous company, now that I have left it, I had to uninstall it, and hence I am tied to the software that are free to use.

Would it be possible to write-up a few tutorials for people like us who are interested in learning a few tricks? (Whenever you get time, that is!)

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye opener.

This post was edited by ReallyCoolDude on Jan 26, 2005.

BTW, which software do you use to create your own icons?

An ages old copy of Paint Shop Pro. I mean, it's a 16×16 patch of pixels, so having Über-tools is not going to help you anyway. You might as well use Windows Paint.

Would it be possible to write-up a few tutorials for people like us who are interested in learning a few tricks?

I'm afraid I just sit down and draw icons. If you already have a picture of your icon in your head, I don't find it hard to translate it into pixels because there aren't many ways to fit a shape into that limited space.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion