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VLC Icons

Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 07:01

vlc has the same icons for all file types, so I think we need better icons... I made this for the timebeing, please help make better ones
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Postby CloudStalker » 02 May 2007 07:44

You asked a few posts back if anyone could covert the icons. Here's a program that will easily allow you to convert ICOs to PNGs/JPEGs and from PNGs/JPEGs to ICOs, it's quite neat. :)

This is a direct link: http://icons.soboring.org/aveicon.zip

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Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 07:50

I already have a batch convertor, ImageIcon. But I needed one that could remove the white background and replace with emptiness(transparent). I found a shareware, but i need a freeware... anyway, check my icons and tell how useful they are not.( I want to get readymade png of that curved piece of paper which is used in most icons... if someone gives me that, then I will make some half decent icons(with the file name on top in verdna text, the cone below, like quicktime player, k-lite codec pak, vista, etc)
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Postby CloudStalker » 02 May 2007 08:12

If you find a program that easily removes the white background leaving only the PNG please tell me, I looking for one as well.

This might be a little cumbersome but, you could use FastStone Image Viewer. Change your icon to PNG format and you can open up the program and trace around the icon, you can do bits at a time if you want.

After you've finished delete what's highlighted and it will appear transparent. Make sure that the icon is first converted to PNG and when you are finished to save it as PNG (only way it will remain transparent).

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Postby MetalheadGautham » 03 May 2007 13:46

most such programs are sharewares, but I am trying for a solution in gimp or something.... can I select an entire colour region and convert it to a transparent layer :?: hmmm....... :? will see it more closely.. :|
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 03 May 2007 14:16

here are my UNNATURALLY SIMPLE VLC Icons:

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Please understand that I am a beginner in this stuff.... and how can I remove the white background :?: :?: :?: :?:
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Postby CloudStalker » 03 May 2007 16:23

It took about one minute to do this but I've used
FastStone Image Viewer to remove the white background.

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I can do the rest, but not right at this moment. If you want I could also post some sort of step-by-step on how to do this, but as I've said in a previous post depending on what it is you're trying to make it can get a little tedious because you'll have to trace around the icon to delete the background, but thankfully this one was easy to do because it is a simple triangle.

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Postby MetalheadGautham » 03 May 2007 16:25

wow its awssome...

PS: you could have chosen OGG or anything opensource instead M$ WMA
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 03 May 2007 16:31

You should have done this to the blank cone, so that the text can be easily added later.....


and BTW, is there a readymade png like this available? I got iths from wikipedia, and for the source of vlc's cone given in this site, I only have GIMPSHOP :(
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Postby CloudStalker » 03 May 2007 16:42

I did one more. I'll also post the information, with screenshots, on how to do this, later. 8)

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Postby MetalheadGautham » 03 May 2007 16:45

STOP IT... I DONT NEED IT ANYMORE... I FOUND A BLANK CONE AND I AM GONNA RE ADD THE TEXT AND PUT EMBOSSING EFFECTS TO THE TEXT AND I HAVE CHOSEN GRAY THIS TIME... :D
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 03 May 2007 17:51

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Postby h2g2bob » 24 May 2007 08:02

There are some good icons on Wikimedia Commons (under Mimetype icons):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/VLC

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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 24 May 2007 08:10

Yes, exactly. I just need them to be GPL... :D
Oh ? They are! I did not notice that. Cool :D

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Postby MetalheadGautham » 24 May 2007 08:45

then what are we waiting for? lets get some decent icons! :D
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 24 May 2007 09:03

if anyone can help me in this small problem, I will be really grateful: where can I find that folded/bent/curved on the corner white paper icon which most icon makers use as a base? can anyone give me a link to a png?
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 31 May 2007 09:05

Question: have the icons been implemented in the nightlies yet???
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Postby daveshrop » 02 Jun 2007 19:40

May be of interest.......

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/511 ... n%3Ascraps

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33515624/
the black/white VLC icon is amongst these beauties! :)

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Postby MetalheadGautham » 05 Jun 2007 06:50

who made them? is it GPLed or GPL compatable? (mine surely are, so are the ones from wikimedia commons)
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 05 Jun 2007 06:52

to j-b or anyone who knows: is

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License

compatible with GPL? (I think no)
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 05 Jun 2007 06:56

and btw, the first link looks like a personal website. can we request him for the icons then? most wil be more than happy for it and all that free publicity...
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 18 Jun 2007 10:52

wait.. vlc 0.8.6c is released, still no new icons???
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Re: VLC Icons

Postby 3breadt » 25 Jun 2007 15:56

There are already some icons existing for VLC, e.g mine viewtopic.php?f=10&t=19243
or Asim's at http://www.videolan.org/goodies.html
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Re: VLC Icons

Postby Arite » 27 Jun 2007 06:39

wait.. vlc 0.8.6c is released, still no new icons???
You can get the background sheet of paper from this icon from the Crystal SVG [LGPL] set:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... cycled.svg

Save the SVG and use Inkscape to edit the SVG and remove the recycled symbol, leaving the background paper. You could then either create a set of SVG vectorial icons in Inscape (worth considering if you wish to make an icon set/template - render at any size), or you could export the SVG image as a PNG/BMP file and edit in raster editor (Such as the GIMP).

As for converting a white background to alpha transparency - I would use the GIMP also (Just open the file in the GIMP and go: Filters >> Colors >> Color to Alpha).

Here is a 48x48 PNG image of the VideoLAN cone [just extracted from "vlc48x48.ico"] with alpha transparency:

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Also - here is a (rather poor) example image I created in Inkscape using the Crystal SVG icon background linked above and the 48x48 VLC icon:

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Does anyone know if there is vectorial version of the new cone VLC icon?

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Re: VLC Icons

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 27 Jun 2007 08:01

Hmmm... good question. I'll check.
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