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Dave
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Jan 24, 2012 - 5:48 am

Morning,

Quick quesiton... When you created the forum images did you do so in color and then greyscale them? If you did create them in color is it possible I could have the original psd files?

Thanks for all the help and support you both are providing to everyone!

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 24, 2012 - 7:06 am

Oh goodness! Yes and No. Some of these started life as greyscale and that prompted me to keep that as standard. I didn't 'create' many of those although I do sometimes modify third party images. Most came from royalty free icon sets. Many came from bigger originals that were then resized and cleaned up. They did not, in short, all come from the same source and I doubt I have original psd's for the vast majority.

Sorry!

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Dave
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Jan 24, 2012 - 7:52 am

Not a problem and thanks for taking the time to explain!

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Conrad_Farlow
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Jan 24, 2012 - 7:53 am

I have done quite a lot of custom icons for my (soon to go live) test forum Dave and was doing so in minutes.

I used a package called Axialis Icon workshop. Check it out it is excellent and not that expensive.

Have a look at a few of them here:

http://www.g0ruz.com/ABF_Test/forum

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Dave
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Jan 24, 2012 - 11:40 pm

Thanks Conrad. I have Photoshop and Icon Workshop. I just didn't want to have to reinvent the wheel - so to speak - and it's often hard to come up with something cohesive for something like this.

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 25, 2012 - 2:48 am

Don't I know it!
Er... community developed icons and themes always welcome by the way 🙂

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Dave
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Jan 25, 2012 - 3:57 am

OK, here are what I've done tonight! Light blue, similar to the sky-blue overlay which my theme is based on.

Included are all the icons I could figure out where they go and what they do along with several for plugins that display info on the forum frontend.

I will say that there needs to be a change in plugin image storage, maybe storing them in the active theme's icon directory. Too many locations and a very high chance of overwriting your work during an upgrade to a plugin.

AAAAHHHHH. No zip uploads!
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Dave
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Jan 25, 2012 - 4:04 am

Conrad, post yours up - would love to see them!

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 25, 2012 - 4:46 am

Nice. We would love to be able to offer these and any others users create - when V5 is finally 'gold' released.

I am not sure why we didn't add zips to the upload. I see no harm in that and we will talk that over.

Now - you raise the question of storage/locations. We allow for users to move/copy a plugins CSS file to their theme but don't currently allow for the same options with icons and images. This is an oversight really and I have opened a ticket to allow this to happen as well.

So for custom theme makers, they can create custom icons for plugins that would also be safe from updates.

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Dave
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Feb 5, 2012 - 6:41 am

Any update on zip uploads? I've finished my icon pack and was going to upload it to share until there was a formal method.

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