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Originally Posted by Polen
In Photoshop you can make Layers visible or not, just change the IE layer's visibility. Click the little eye looking check box next to the layer you want to make visible or not, then create a new layer for your new icons. You can also use the Visibilty check box of the Icon Pressed layer set to see the 3D effect and adjust icons to get the desired outcome.
In the psd file I provided, there's 2 layer sets, IconPressed and Icon. What I do is paste my icon without it's background into the Icon project file I provided, then use Edit/FreeTransform to size it and then move the image to center it. Now, in the layer window move your new icon into the Icon layer set and then rename it to something. Now right click the new icon layer and select Duplicate layer and name it to your icon name with the word Pressed and move it into the Icon Pressed layer set. Now, Freetransform the your new icon Pressed image and reduce the size a bit.
To get the blue effect, right click on the IE Pressed layer I provided and select Copy Layer Style and then right click your new Icon Pressed layer and select Paste Layer Style. Do the same to your original Icon by copying the style from my IE layer and pasting it to your icon layer.
Also, your layer order is important, your icons in each layer set needs to be above the button within the layer set. Think of layers as peices of paper you cut out and stacked on a large peice of paper.
-Polen
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I'm VERY new to making icons. I don't have Photoshop, but I did download yesterday the open source graphic software, Gimp (
http://www.gimp.org). This software is compared to Photoshop. Will your instructions and layer sets work in Gimp? The terms you use are some of the options is see in Gimp. Thanks.
EDIT:
I was able to open the psd file in Gimp. Now I need to learn what to do with it.