Inkscape is good for making icons, assuming you want vector icons.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2024
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What's wrong with Krita and Inkscape? Be sure to always use vectors for icon designs, you can raster them afterwards.
Nothing wrong , I just wanted to know if there are other alternatives
Emblem from the GNOME Circle. It's very basic but it doesn't take any time to make an icon with it.
I like to write SVG by hand with a text editor and Firefox, but that's probably not for most people.
I mainly like it, because you're entering all the coordinates as numbers, which makes ratios more apparent and also easy to work with...
The advantage here is that you can start baking in animations, themes, progressive enhancements. I would agree this isn’t the best tool for most authoring, but considering tow lackluster the XML editor is in Inkscape & how break points can make sure your icon is clear at all sizes, it is a good idea to spend time in a text editor as well.
Inkscape is for vector graphics, GIMP is for pixel graphics. You probably want to use a combination of both for many situations (design the logo in Inkscape, touch it up and scale it in GIMP).
From my experience, GIMP is close to par with Photoshop in terms of both features and user friendliness. Inkscape is unfortunately much harder to use than Illustrator.
I agree with those that say Inkscape, it's where I've designed all my logos. However, I've been tempted to try using FreeCAD to do it lately. I'm not sure if it can export as SVG, but the thought of have a proper parametric tool for designing logos sounds up my ally. I tend to try to treat Inkscape like one, by liberal use of construction lines, but at the end of the day, it really doesn't like being that precise.
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mtPaint is a painting program which Mark Tyler developed from scratch so he could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos.
JDraw is a pixel oriented graphics editor designed especially for small to medium-sized pictures used to decorate web pages. It is completely written in Java, simple to use and saves (animated) GIFs, ICOs and PNGs.