from what i understand, firealpaca is free. ( you can also try this on photoshop, but i highly recommend saior firealpaca for the job. Since i use sai, i’ll just give you screencaps of my setup.
Firealpaca binary brush how to#
This tool is going to be your best friend in making formatted/bordered icons.Īnother thing we need to know is how to use the binary eraser, which is really easy, you just need to click this little box: My settings for binary tool are pretty standard but in case you want to know what they are if it’s set differently ( i think it’s the default though ), these are my settings: first, you need to find the binary tool ( firealpaca also has one, it makes everything look like pixels ). This erases everything, but also in the brush setting. another thing you will need to do is utilize the scale tool: it’s quicker and more efficient to use than the eraser, so don’t use the eraser for erasing things. These are really all the tools you’ll need when making your fancy schmancy icons.
( of course your clever mind is going to help you ! ) also, firealpaca has a different setup, however still has the binary tool. please use that tool like your go-to man because there really isn’t going to be a better tool for icons. ( photoshop file ) so that you can keep all the layers when you want to make more icons**īut now that we’ve started understanding what to do, let’s start with the circular icons, okay?Īlright so it’s really tasking and annoying to actually make a whole circle by yourself, so i find a circle render and paste it onto the 100 x 100 canvas, just make sure to scale it: **a lot of these are cooler with transparencies, so it can show up on your theme, so make sure to save your icons as pngs ( will be further explained below ). to be honest, i’m not going to change it that much, but this is what i’ve got: Next, we decide were we want the circle, and how big we want it. **do whatever you want, i’m going to do something a bit different, but i’ll explain how to do the dashes and stuff with the square icons** See now it’s nice and centered, and it doesn’t touch the edges of the blank canvas. We’re going to make the redish circle the place to put the icons.
the black circle will be the outer-most border. another thing is, notice that fuzz around the icon? it’ll look worse in a thread, so now we gotta go use our handy-dandy binary tool to paint over the fuzzed out part.
See it looks much clearer and looks better. unfortunately, it’s very hard to pixelize circles, as pixels are essentially little squares, but you’ll just have to keep fiddling with it until you’re pleased. **this part is completely optional, but i think it looks nicer** now i’m going to separate the two circles. We’re not going to be using the colour white ( though you can do that if you want ), but instead use our friendly binary eraser. So now i’ll just make the outermost border be a little fade to black, using the theme of wannyapu’s kagerou days pv: ( make sure you still have binary selected as the tool, though ). ( to do this i used a LOT of clipping group layers and multiple.
Now you can do whatever you want with your border, include making it a more interesting shape: clipping groups make sure it only affects what you already have on that layer. ( to be honest, you really just have to add the corners and lines of a square to make it look like this, play around with it and make it your own.
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