PhotoLine UI Icons Customization Project

[shijan]

beta 11.
Gradients and Invert icons redrawn with "Background" "Foreground" tags and now works in dark mode.
More Adjustment layers and Filters icons.

[shijan]

beta 12.
Color Picker icons redrawn from scratch.
More vector icons added and improved in different places.

[shijan]

beta 13.
Tool -> Mask menu icons redesign.
Some other Tools icons in vector.
Still testing variations of Load, Save, Save-as icons...

[shijan]

beta 14.
Lasso Tools icons redesign.
Improved some Mask Tools icons.

[shijan]

beta 15.
Some new icons in Edit and View menus.
A lot of Apple SF Symbols icons are modified, redrawn or just optimized for pixel perfect grid.
Many other cosmetic fixes.

[shijan]

beta 16.
- Redrawn from scratch Painting (Brush) tool icon
- Redrawn Hand and Finger tools (based on modified Apple SF Symbols)
- Connect Vector Paths tool icon
- Some variations with "New..." badges
- Some other icon changes

[shijan]

beta 17
- "New Layer" and "Duplicate Layer "toolbar icons changed to dark appearance to unify them with "Duplicate"/"Add"/"New" badges visual logic used in other icons.
- Text Tool icon redesign.
- Line Style Editor icons redesign (icons look slightly blurry there because global bug in many places of PhotoLine UI, when icons are transformed from original 15/17/19 to 14/16/18 px grid).
- Some other small changes.

[shijan]

beta 18
- Redesigned arrows tools in Curves window (icons look slightly blurry there because global bug in many places of PhotoLine UI, when icons are transformed from original 15/17/19 to 14/16/18 px grid)
- Redesigned pages navigation arrows in the status bar.
- Some new Filters icons.


(it appears that pages navigation arrows in the status bar and navigation arrows in browser share same icon source as Curves window. This is not good for customization. Those arrows also became invisible In dark mode because status bar don't affected by dark theme)

[shijan]

beta 19.1
- 3 dots instead of arrows in legacy filters window side panel.
- Redrawn Eraser tools icons.
- Redesigned and simplified "Proportional", "Centered" and other Tool Settings icons.
- Some other small changes.

[shijan]

beta 20
Redesigned Quick Selection and Border Matting Tool Settings icons

[shijan]

beta 21
- Redesigned Free Lasso Tool icon.
- Redesigned Only Contiguous Areas Selection icon.
- Redesigned Fill Holes icon.
- Redesigned Deep Selection icon.

[shijan]

beta 22
Not too many changes yet because i was busy with other project.
- Returned back to "classic" arrows in Curves window
- Redrawn some tools Icons
- other small fixes.

[PhilM]

Hello,

I said before that I don't care too much about UI look.

But I want to recognize the effort you are putting in this attempt to improve it.
I can see the amount of work.
Thanks for that.

Personally, I would hate to see an UI all made of gray shades.
Colors are visual anchors that help a lot.
When a button is on, it should change color. Not just change to an indistinguishable shade of gray.
A tool icon should be colored.

Traffic lights are saturated red and green ! Not light and dark gray.

Best regards

Philippe

[shijan]

PhilM, i am not against colored icons and i posted a lot of examples of well designed icon sets arranged by color in other apps like Cinema4D or resent version of Blender. Combine tool groups by color just require more work and more rethinking. I agree that the look of "pressed icon" in PrhotoLine is not perfect. But it is just because PhotoLine use random system UI buttons look.
Tiny simple and clean monochrome symbols usually works well and just recognized by human as part of a text. Graphic editing apps are very special tools that should provide maximum concentration on image. Colored icons and too random shades of UI windows and backgrounds distract a lot in this scenario.

beta 23:
- Layer/Document/Pages - Rotate/Trim/Scale/Change Size icons
- Dynamic Symmetry icon
- Flipped Magnifier Tool icon
- other small fixes

[shijan]

beta 24
- Updated Layer/Document/Pages - Rotate/Trim/Scale/Change Size icons.
- Unified "Trim" and "Bring to Doc size" icons for Image and Document.
- Text to Picture icon
- ICC icons
- Updated Import/Export icon
- JPEG Compression icon
- Other small fixes