However, if you’re going to create more than one icon, having a pre-selected palette can give your icons a more consistent look and feel. You may think palettes are only necessary in special cases like indexing colors of web images. Nautilus (gnome-vfs) can’t yet handle compressed GIMP native files Choosing a Color Palette ¶ Especially since filemanagers like Nautilus have problems with creating thumbnails for compressed images, it’s best to accompany any. However, since we’re working with very small files, compression simply doesn’t save enough space to justify the effort. GIMP enables you to save compressed files and work with them transparently, using the. Before You Begin ¶Īs with any new task, it will help to have a little background information: Filenames and Structure ¶ In this short tutorial, we’ll show you how GIMP ( GNU Image Manipulation Program) can help you create icons for your desktop.

Intention ¶Īlmost every desktop enviroment I’ve seen has a special application for creating icons, usually a very limited drawing application. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Jakub Steiner and may not be used without permission of the author.