Yingchun5207 wrote:I was thinking it would make a nice icon for icon snapshot on/off - I like the metaphor, if mezich could recreat an icon similar to this.
Yingchun5207 wrote:I was thinking it would make a nice icon for icon snapshot on/off - I like the metaphor, if mezich could recreat an icon similar to this.
#1 does indeed remind me of "beam me up, Scotty" or "The Rapture" and #3 and #4 are too complicated for small icons while communicating too many different memes to be succinct. One might confuse them with "slide show"...
John, yes #2 is 'ok' ....I certainly think the choice here comes down to #2 or #3 .
The thing I don't like about #2 is that it simply lacks color, it's just a plain black+white, and to me, won't look good amongst the other existing color-bound toolbar icons (If I was to custom place 'Spotlight' function/icon shortcut to the toolbar in Xnview MP).
That lack of color is a useful distinguishing feature that causes the icon to stand out from the other, more colorful, icons around it.
Though uniform appearance/style is an admirable aesthetic property of an icon set, it tends to make icons more difficult to distinguish quickly ("at a glance"), one from another, esp. at the small sizes used in menus and toolbars.
In the best of all possible worlds each icon in a set would look completely different from the others, but also share in the overall "style". Impossible, right? Well, not impossible but...
This is why I continue to say that icon design is the most difficult task in software!
Ok John, you have point and always are eloquent about software matters
I am ok for either #3 or #2, I don't mind now.
final 'spotlight -icon' screenshot mock-up
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JohnFredC wrote:
budz45 wrote:
this would go well for 'Icon Snapshot on/off'
EDIT:- the colored 'dots' are nice for "icon snapshot on/off" but I think must not confuse with the same colored dots metaphor used on 'ColourLabel' 16x16 icon
budz45 wrote:EDIT:- the colored 'dots' are nice for "icon snapshot on/off" but I think must not confuse with the same colored dots metaphor used on 'ColourLabel' 16x16 icon
What is the difference between new "snapshot on/off" and current "capture" ?