Techniques to make good two-color images for icons?

[StratosVX]

Ok, turns out I forgot about my own software in less than three months.
...
Yeah I am a little bit embarrassed how fast one could forget such stuff.

Glad I'm not the only one that has this problem!

[Count Mohawk]

It took longer than I thought it would, but I now have icons for all 4 elementals:



Anderas, are these of sufficient quality to run through your vector program?
If so, feel free to produce icons in your array of alternate color schemes as well. Thanks in advance!

[Anderas]

I check them later today

[Anderas]

Ok, here we go.
They are recognizable even in the Raster format now.
The zip contains everything needed including proposed changes to the object.xml

I ran a noise filter on the icons, then they were good to go.
Sadly Flickr died the heat death, now I need to find another photo service. Google was difficult to use, as far as I remember. Does Imgur still exist?

Icons.zip

Air_Elemental_EU.png

Water_Elemental_EU.png

Fire_Elemental_EU.png

Earth_Elemental_EU.png

[j_dean80]

Imgur is still up and running plus free. (At least for now)

[Count Mohawk]

Hey-presto, thanks for doing that! Now I've got me some colorful Elemental icons to use in my Quests.

One note to Anderas and to others who may also want to use these icons: there's already an icon with the name "Air Elemental", "Fire Elemental" and "Water Elemental" among the All-in-One Monsters. So if you add the Objects.xml script included in the above ZIP folder to the bottom, you'll need to change their "name" identifiers to something else (look on lines 79, 178, 277 and 376). I made the new ones "X Elemental (CM)" because I'm Count Mohawk and I helped make the images, but you can do whatever else you want.

Keep an ear to the ground and you'll see the Water Elementals appear in a new Quest Pack preview pretty soon!

[Anderas]

Turns out I also forgot to mention your name in the object.xml... I just let the software run as it was, and the original just mentions me and Marcus Weber.

An update is due... but now I am en route again to north Germany.

[knightkrawler]

... but now I am en route again to north Germany.

but why? North Germany is the third worst part of Germany right after East Germany and West Germany...

[Anderas]

It's still better than that as I will be buying a house just south of the river Elbe, which means I am technically in southern Germany.

[Count Mohawk]

My apologies in advance, Anderas, but I need a second favor.

I've drawn up one more new icon for HeroScribe for another Quest Pack I'll be drawing the maps for shortly, and I'd like your assistance in adding this one the way you helped with the 4 Elementals:


This guy will be called a "Jannisary", being a Middle-Eastern-style raider. Probably no one would search by that name, though, so a more generic name such as "Bandit" or "Raider" would also be appropriate.

Anyway, thanks much if you can help.