Comments on: Create icons with VariIcons http://www.internetspotter.com/2008/02/24/create-icons-with-variicons/ Spotting the internet Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:16:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ohno-I BlewwitAggin http://www.internetspotter.com/2008/02/24/create-icons-with-variicons/comment-page-1/#comment-746 Ohno-I BlewwitAggin Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:00:57 +0000 http://www.internetspotter.com/2008/02/24/create-icons-with-variicons/#comment-746 I Downloaded this little application from Sourceforge just this morning. I often need custom Icons, but I'm just not happy with the ones my "Icon suite" can create. There was only one version of the file available for download, and sourceforge never mentioned language Issues at all... so, You can imagine my surprise when I noticed I couldn't read anything the installer said. Okay, I'd had a long night studying, but was I really that tired? NO, as it turns out my eyes were okay, it's just that everything in this little program REALLY is written in German. :shock: ( I don't read German at all ...not a word..not a line..none at all.) This thing is supposed to create text, maybe it even does, but I don't know how, The text tool didn't seem to work. I did figure out the gradient tool, but setting the colors is difficult and doesn't work well on my computer. None of it really worked well on my computer, the paint brush didn't paint every time. I had been hoping to import already prepared images to create my icons, but hmm, I just cant figure out how to do that. Long story short, unless your language of choice is German it probably isn't worth the download. If German is your language, and you don't need much of an Icon builder, this one might do. Additional note: The little cross bars that help you line up angles and lines are kind of fun at first, and the color picker is better than those on most of the freeware Icon creation tools I've tried. I Downloaded this little application from Sourceforge just this morning.
I often need custom Icons, but I’m just not happy with the ones my “Icon suite” can create.

There was only one version of the file available for download, and sourceforge never mentioned language Issues at all…
so, You can imagine my surprise when I noticed I couldn’t read anything the installer said. Okay, I’d had a long night studying, but was I really that tired? NO, as it turns out my eyes were okay, it’s just that everything in this little program REALLY is written in German. :shock:
( I don’t read German at all …not a word..not a line..none at all.) This thing is supposed to create text, maybe it even does, but I don’t know how, The text tool didn’t seem to work.

I did figure out the gradient tool, but setting the colors is difficult and doesn’t work well on my computer. None of it really worked well on my computer, the paint brush didn’t paint every time. I had been hoping to import already prepared images to create my icons, but hmm, I just cant figure out how to do that. Long story short, unless your language of choice is German it probably isn’t worth the download. If German is your language, and you don’t need much of an Icon builder, this one might do.

Additional note: The little cross bars that help you line up angles and lines are kind of fun at first, and the color picker is better than those on
most of the freeware Icon creation tools I’ve tried.

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