Social media icons?

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 2:44 pm **(#1)**

Anyone know how to make icons like this:

using gimp?

trandoductin · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:02 pm **(#2)**

I had to play around a lot... and don't remember steps...
But maybe you can play with this .xcf. change the color layers... and maybe the logo layer and put your logo there and add your own inner glow and outer glow.
The super bright spot can be better, but i lost my patience.
I think Congabui would be really good at replicating the youtube video in GIMP.

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mackenzieh · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:34 pm **(#3)**

trandoductin wrote:

I had to play around a lot... and don't remember steps...
But maybe you can play with this .xcf. change the color layers... and maybe the logo layer and put your logo there and add your own inner glow and outer glow.
The super bright spot can be better, but i lost my patience.
I think Congabui would be really good at replicating the youtube video in GIMP.

Attachment:

A_mytry.xcf

[ Image ]

That's a good try. I think I will try it out myself. I hope Congabui can replicate this video for us Gimp users.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:24 pm **(#4)**

Here's the written instructions, Make Social Media Icon Buttons.
Would BRL help?

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:32 pm **(#5)**

Odinbc wrote:

Here's the written instructions, Make Social Media Icon Buttons.
Would BRL help?

I have the written instructions.. 46 steps is a lot though. Not sure if BRL would help. I think this would take me countless hours to get a first try.

2-ton · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:49 pm **(#6)**

making shiny buttons isn't terribly hard, but getting that pattern inside exactly as the pic might be difficult.

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:08 pm **(#7)**

Does it have to be exactly the same?
If not,
I've made a video on how I made the glossy button in the image below.
I made the video on the fly so it's not very professional like, but it does show how I did it.

This is what it looks like.

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mackenzieh · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:16 pm **(#8)**

Wallace, it doesn't have to be exactly the same.. similar is what I want. Nothing is ever exactly how we want it.

2-ton · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:19 pm **(#9)**

doesn't gimp have a shiny button maker in the file-create menu, or somewhere in Gimp?

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:21 pm **(#10)**

mackenzieh wrote:

Wallace, it doesn't have to be exactly the same.. similar is what I want.
Nothing is ever exactly how we want it.

I made this button using the Plastic and Glass script.

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You would need to add some pressed in text, or something like that.

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:24 pm **(#11)**

2-ton wrote:

doesn't gimp have a shiny button maker in the file-create menu, or somewhere in Gimp?

Yes, it makes buttons that look like this one. You can also add text to it.

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This is where it's located in my Gimp.
I'm not sure if it's a default Gimp script.

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mackenzieh · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:36 pm **(#12)**

Wallace wrote:

mackenzieh wrote:

Wallace, it doesn't have to be exactly the same.. similar is what I want.
Nothing is ever exactly how we want it.

I made this button using the Plastic and Glass script.

Attachment:

plastic button.png

You would need to add some pressed in text, or something like that.

That's cool.

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:37 pm **(#13)**

2-ton wrote:

doesn't gimp have a shiny button maker in the file-create menu, or somewhere in Gimp?

I'd rather do it by hand than have a script maker produce it for me.

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:39 pm **(#14)**

mackenzieh wrote:

Wallace wrote:

mackenzieh wrote:

Wallace, it doesn't have to be exactly the same.. similar is what I want.
Nothing is ever exactly how we want it.

I made this button using the Plastic and Glass script.

Attachment:

The attachment plastic button.png is no longer available

You would need to add some pressed in text, or something like that.

That's cool.

If you like that here are the scripts.
I pulled them form my Gimp scripts folder.
There's 2 scripts.
One does dark colored orbs and the other does light ones.

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Kimba · **Posted:** Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:04 pm **(#15)**

Thanks for the scripts ,Wallace. Here's my attempt.

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Wallace · **Posted:** Sat Oct 24, 2015 12:19 am **(#16)**

Kimba wrote:

Thanks for the scripts ,Wallace. Here's my attempt.

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KOrb.png

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2015 1:18 am **(#17)**

Here's a gimp tutorial written by Conbagui:
http://conbagui.deviantart.com/art/Glos ... -569324483

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2445

Since it looks like GUG has totally died (yet again) and with it the tutorials archive

Here are 2 that fit the topic, not much changed in 10 years

and a bit of history for all you long serving Gimp users.

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2015 10:54 pm **(#19)**

I tried out Conbagui's tutorial and here's what I came up with:

I used a social media icon brush instead of an image for that step in the tutorial.
The brushes I found are here:
http://www.weblogcode.org/photoshop/soc ... -download/

Here's another set of brushes you may like:
http://jeri629.deviantart.com/art/Icons-203140994

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:15 pm **(#20)**

Nice one, mackenzieh :bigthup

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