In Android Studio, while creating a Launcher Icon, there is a preview of a "Safe zone" circle that defines a certain padding around the edge of the displayed boundaries.
What does it specifically define?
Adaptive Icons, which are introduced in Android O, allows the system to apply a shape mask on top of your icons, which gives users a more consistent icon theme. Instead of a mixed bag of square & circle icons, users can now be shown all square or all circle icons.
The question is, how big a mask can systems make? Can they clip away 40px (10px from each side) of your icon? How about 80px? 120px? Even 400px? So Google created a rule:
A device OEM can specify a mask that may include a radius that is as short as 33 dp along certain points of the shape.
So the "safe zone" is the area that is guaranteed to not be clipped.
It looks like Android is planning on introducing parallax effects on icons when scrolling in the home screen, when they do, icons that are not completely in the "safe zone" may get see unnatural motion with the background when they are being animated. (See the "Clock" icon, and how it "escapes" the bounds of the background)
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I have a rich text label that works fine under a resolution of 1920x1080. However, when scaled down to the resolution on my laptop, which has a 1366x768 resolution, the text on said label becomes janky and malformed.
Some lines are cut off at the top or the bottom, and others are squished (as you can see in the image at lines 3, 6, and 13).
I'm using Godot v3.5.1 and the text font is Noto Sans Regular from here
I tried enabling mipmaps, using the filter, disabling anti aliasing, disabling font oversampling and enabling GPU pixel snap under Project Settings > Rendering > 2D > Snapping. And out of all of those, only the pixel snap setting worked. Completely fixes the issue and the text is rendered properly.
However, this completely breaks an animation of a spinning circle that plays at basically all times during the actual gameplay. It becomes stuttered and shakes instead of the normally smooth animation it has otherwise. I realize this may possibly be fixed by using SVG instead of PNG sprites, but I feel like that's not an ideal solution in case other sprites get added. Especially since my game will also allow community members to add their own sprites for their own game play.
So is there any way to fix the text without breaking the animations, or make it so that the animations don't break with pixel snap enabled?
I would like to use a decent size rectangle shape icon in android 12 splash screen, even though the icon I use is rectangle shape it is always displayed in a circle shape. I saw one question / answer here,
How to change icon shape in Android 12 Splash screen?
If I follow the answer from here, the icon is rectangle but it is small?
Like, this netflix is good size one (which is from android 12 phone), and I would like to make a similar one.
I read the documentation carefully, and it cannot use wider space! It stated
For example, if the full size of an image is 300×300 dp, the icon needs to fit within a circle with a diameter of 200 dp. Everything outside the circle will be invisible (masked).
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/splash-screen#splash_screen_dimensions
I was using an icon with background originally, so I was able to use only 160dp, however, once change the icon to be without background, I can use 192dp(or 200dp?) as the documentation, which is enough space for us.
I had to modify my image size by adding in our svg file to fit in the circle.
<vector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:width="1920dp"
android:height="492dp"
android:viewportWidth="1920"
android:viewportHeight="492">
<group
android:pivotX="960"
android:pivotY="246"
android:scaleX="0.65"
android:scaleY="0.17">
<path .../>
<path .../>
</group>
</vector>
I'm trying to create the "Ed, Edd, and Eddy" art style. Here's an example image:
Specifically, I'm trying to capture the effect of having accent lines with varying stroke values within the same line.
I have access to the Adobe suite. Spent a couple hours trying to see if I could do something in Photoshop or Illustrator to no avail. Any help?
You'll need to use Illustrator, here's a quick tutorial on how it's done in Illustrator CC.
Draw your starting shape:
Choose the width tool from the toolbox
click anywhere on the path and drag it out to the desired width
Repeat this (you can widen and thin the stroke) until you have the desired result.
In Photoshop, simply create a brush that is pressure sensitive (= change brush diameter with pressure) with your tablet.
That should give you the desired effect.
#user3488148 you are looking for a free form drawing strokes and for that you can use a brush that provides accents while you draw and can respond to pressure (if a tablet stylus is used) as well. Check out for inbuilt brushes and modify their diameter, length, pressure, etc.
There is this site http://game-icons.net/ that offers huge number of open source icons. That is 1345 SVG files to this day. I would love to use them with a web project I am working on right now. The logical step is to transform them into an icon font. Normally, I would just upload them to https://icomoon.io/app/#/select/font and voila ... but!
The icons are inverse, white symbols on a black rectangle. I can invert colors in Illustrator, but some of the icons have overlaping shapes and this breaks them when icomoon tries to make them Black-transparent.
Example: http://game-icons.net/lorc/originals/archery-target.html
The circles are white, not transparent.
How to flatten a Black-White SVG file with overlaping shapes into an icomoon friendly Black-transparent SVG?
My wish is to make the font open source as well and send it back to the site admins for everybody to enjoy.
At the moment the icons have layers of black and white paths. You are going to need to use the "merge paths" feature of Illustrator or Inkscape to make the white (or black) paths into holes where appropriate. I think this is pretty much going to be a manual task. You could write a script to help with some of the work, but I suspect you would end up needing to fix a large number of the icons afterward anyway.
We have been provided with a Photoshop created specification for a website. It gives specific pixel-based panel widths and various font sizes for different items (in points).
For example, the text in a data grid is 12pt Verdana. The grid is 765px wide.
When rendered in a browser (Chrome or IE) at 100%, the grid is 765px as expected, but the font appears larger than the design (around 20-25% larger in the browser).
We suspected the DPI settings in Photoshop might be a cause, but if anything they should have had the opposite effect (Photoshop doc set to 72DPI, Windows/browsers rendering at 96DPI).
Any suggestions on what we are overlooking? Should the Photoshop file be authored at 96DPI?
Here is another discussion about pt vs px in photoshop and how you can change to px instead. Maybe it helps :)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3868627/photoshop-pt-size-conversion-to-web
Make sure your photoshop document is set to 72ppi, then it will match browser size
Under CS2 its a simple process of going into the Edit Menu -> Preferences Submenu -> Units and Rulers then change the units type to pixels.