I was curious to know if there's a way to create better looking icons for ribbon panel/toolbar buttons than the old way if filling in pixels with the pen/line and generic colors method? Autodesk default icons are really nice and have 'shades of colors' etc that make the icons look more realistic. When I create them I use the regular colors and there's no blending really. I was hoping there was a newer way to create more realistic looking images on the button...
@Anonymous You can literally use any image editor out there that you like to use all the time: you just have to remember the final result needs to be 32x32 (pixels) in size which will have some impact on any complex "blending" etc. you might wish to implement.
I always created the custom buttons within AutoCAD, zoom in and regen with the button filling the entire screen, take a screenshot, and paste it into MS paint and save it as a png or whatever.
I didn't use it that often, and forgive my memory if I'm incorrect...but I used a solid hatch as a background for the contents of the button. The hatch has a fairly decent assortment of color blending.
