My desaturated Icon set for CorelDRAW X3
When CorelDRAW 11 came out, the new icon colors seemed to incite a love/hate response from users. I prefer the look of Draw 9/10. From some reason, I'd thought they were more colorful in the older CorelDRAW versions, so I was shocked when I realized they were even less so!
Thanks to CorelDRAW Super Hero Osman Moscuff, I was able to globally change my CorelDRAW icons in Photo-Paint. Things got exciting when I'd mentioned to him it may be possible to adjust the icons as a whole. He'd vanished for a day, then came back with a VBA macro. We worked together on this project, but he has excellent skills in digging out CorelDRAW's resource libraries and then re-inserting the changes. Thank-you OS!
Some of you might be interested in changing icons the way I did. It gets a bit involved, since there are multiple icon libraries to deal with. The majority of you likely prefer to simply replace the set. If so, here's the 650k ZIP FILE. Note that you use my offering at your own risk - I've had no problems. I've included CorelDRAW X3's default icons in the ZIP as well.
Click the image to see an idea of what this icon set looks like.
Some icons still have the bluish tint, such as the Smart Fill Tool, and the Crop Tool. They seem to be in yet another icon library.
There were some icons I snagged form older versions of Draw such as the text Bold, Italic, and Underline icons. The justification icons are the old style too. Some icons are in full color, but not with the blue tint.
Have fun!
Thanks to CorelDRAW Super Hero Osman Moscuff, I was able to globally change my CorelDRAW icons in Photo-Paint. Things got exciting when I'd mentioned to him it may be possible to adjust the icons as a whole. He'd vanished for a day, then came back with a VBA macro. We worked together on this project, but he has excellent skills in digging out CorelDRAW's resource libraries and then re-inserting the changes. Thank-you OS!
Some of you might be interested in changing icons the way I did. It gets a bit involved, since there are multiple icon libraries to deal with. The majority of you likely prefer to simply replace the set. If so, here's the 650k ZIP FILE. Note that you use my offering at your own risk - I've had no problems. I've included CorelDRAW X3's default icons in the ZIP as well.
Click the image to see an idea of what this icon set looks like.
Some icons still have the bluish tint, such as the Smart Fill Tool, and the Crop Tool. They seem to be in yet another icon library.
There were some icons I snagged form older versions of Draw such as the text Bold, Italic, and Underline icons. The justification icons are the old style too. Some icons are in full color, but not with the blue tint.
Have fun!
posted by Jeff Harrison at
1:54 PM
4 Comments:
nice!
please include medium sized icons in your steel theme too.
I appreciate this idea so much that I use the iconpack for more than a week and it feels so fresh!
thank you
Hi Os,
Maybe in the fall I'll change the medium ones too. When I have more time... :-)
i had to chuckle when i saw the headline about icons. when i first upgraded to 11 it made me so mad. that, along with a few other frustrations kept me working in 9 until X3 was released. just had to say thanks. nice to know i wasn't the only one!
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