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The Awfullness of CS3 Icons

Chris — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:14:57 +0000

You may or may not be aware that Adobe has released a beta of Photoshop CS3, mainly I think to prove to those Intel Mac owners that there will be X86 versions on their way. There have been many posts of the subject so I won’t bore you with the details, I’ll just state my opinion and offer some appropriate links.

I started off liking them for, mmm, around 5 minutes untill I realised how essentially broken they are. The CS/CS2 icons are fairly broken, but examples like Icon Masks and the comedic Their Toolbar make the point quite well. BeckleyWorks makes a good arguement, unfortunatly he also links to the Icon Masks image, which is equally true in the pre-CS style squares. I’m happy with abstract, but really icons should be icons not minature versions of the finder label highlights.

Hybrid Works Desktop Vacation Finally Up

Chris — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:33:34 +0000

Hybrid Works 2006 Desktop Vacation is finally up, I won’t hold it against the guy as he is hellavabusy. Surf to http://www.hybridworks.jp/

David Lanham’s Amora

Chris — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:00:09 +0000

I use DL’s Agua at home as it is an excellent system replacement icon set. He has recently released a new set called Amora. It’s style is based on the video for ‘All is Full of Love‘ By Bjork. I love how David remembers to do res-specific icons something few creators remember to do. Check it out!