Short:        A Small high quality GlowIcons collection.
Author:       Various
Uploader:     jackson mbnet fi
Type:         pix/icon
Requires:     Amiga OS 3.5
Architecture: generic

This  is  my  second GlowIcons collection.  I received a lot of encoureaging
mail concerning my first collection.  Thank you for your support.

These  icons  are  in  OS3.5 iconformat and don't contain any NewIcons data.
You  will  need  OS3.5  to  be  able to use these.  I'll never make NewIcons
versions  of these, because I encourage you to buy OS3.5.  However, there is
a  PNG-picture  in  this archive that will show you what the icons will look
like.

None  of  these icons are fully drawned by me. I just copied some parts from
the other icons and pictures. So don't credit me for these. However, I spent
quite  some  time  antialising  and  repixeling scaled icons. If you scale a
picture  in  small  size, the quality isn't always too good. Maybe someday I
will make something from the scratch.

You  may  notice  that  some of the icons or parts of them are from the Matt
Chaput's  first  GlowIcons archive (WCPComplete.lha) that appeared on Aminet
in  1998.   It  was  a  preview  collection and wasn't by no means complete.
Icons  used  standard  NewIcons V4 -palette and many of them lacked a proper
selected  image.  I remapped some of the icons to OS3.5-palette and tried my
best to draw them ready.

I don't consider myself as a gfx artist and I'am just learning the technique
of antialiasing by hand. Technique that is, in these PhotoShop-times, saddly
forgotten.

These  icons  use standard 32 colors OS3.5 GlowIcons-palette. As many of you
may not know what the palette is. I will put it's RGB-values here:

                               0. 170,170,170
                               1. 0,0,0
                               2. 255,255,255
                               3. 227,227,277
                               4. 198,198,198
                               5. 170,170,170
                               6. 138,138,138
                               7. 106,106,106
                               8. 73,73,73
                               9. 41,41,41
                              10. 173,173,240
                              11. 127,137,194
                              12. 82,102,148
                              13. 36,66,102
                              14. 117,219,110
                              15. 86,177,90
                              16. 56,136,70
                              17. 25,94,50
                              18. 201,173,159
                              19. 159,133,114
                              20. 117,93,68
                              21. 89,60,31
                              22. 145,54,130
                              23. 170,104,162
                              24. 194,153,194
                              25. 239,231,20
                              26. 223,186,69
                              27. 219,117,65
                              28. 223,53,53
                              29. 130,0,0
                              30. 117,225,240
                              31. 89,185,180

There  is  also a ILBM-palettefile in the the archive.  As you can see there
is two same grays (170,170,170) in the palette.  first one is for background
and  WB  will  show  it TRANSPARENT.  Another gray is intended to be used on
inner  parts of the icons.  So remember to check that you are using a proper
gray  in  your icons.  Also if you are using transparent gray in inner parts
of your icons that shouldn't be transparent then IconEdit's "Add glow" gives
bad  results.   The  order  of  the  colors  in the palette isn't important,
because IconEdit saves icons only with the colors that are used in the icon,
but be careful to choose the right gray for trasparency in IconEdit.

As  the new iconsystem in OS3.5 supports icons up to 256 colors, some of you
may  think why bother to remap all icons to use the same standard palette. I
have some good reasons to explain why:

1. 256 color icons are dead slow to load. Even with 060 and gfxcard.

2.  The "general look" of the GlowIcons stays more easily the same that Matt
Chaput has intended.

3.  There  is  still some poor souls with AGA who will appreciate that icons
don't use more than 32 colors.

CU on better bits!

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                               Kind regards,
                      Jaakko Oranen - jackson@mbnet.fi
                                 Team AMIGA
                   A4060/82MB/15.2GB/CV3D/DelfLite/OS3.5
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