I'm sure there are already a few tutorials like this one out there, but hey, what can one more hurt?
What's this do?: Krita has features you can use so you can make quick edits to your icons all at once, and save them all out individually with the press of a button. It's a great time-saver, and gives you a lot of flexibility in your edits!
What you'll need:
Krita, a free and open-source painting / image editing program!
Icons!
Part 1: How to export your icons all at once.
( warning: long and image-heavy! Written with beginners in mind. )
Once you open Krita, you'll want to go to Window > Workspace > Animation on the uppermost bar to change the layout for what we'll need, here.
We're going to be using Krita's animation features to make iconing / icon-editing a little easier.
( as an extra note, hitting '1' on your keyboard will set Krita's zoom to the image's actual size, while '2' will have it fill the available space. Helpful for seeing how your icons will appear on the dash. )
Okay, let's get started! Make a new image ( File > New or press Ctrl + N ), set it to whatever dimensions you want ( I default to 100x100px ). Make a new layer ( Click the plus icon in the layers tab, or press ins ), and then put that layer in a group ( Right-click the layer and click group > quick group, or press Ctrl+G while its selected. )
With that grouped layer selected, Grab your icons, and click & drag them into Krita, onto the canvas ( the big empty grey space in the center ). When Krita prompts you, select 'insert many layers.' This will load in each image as its own layer. If you don't have the grouped layer selected, you'll have to select them all and put them back in the group. ( No big deal, just shift + click the first and last layers, and drag them where you need them. )
You can now delete your initial paint layer in the group, if you want. Otherwise it will make an 'empty' icon when we export.
Select that group, then go to Layer > Convert > Convert Group to Animated Layer on the top bar.
( This is only accessible through the top bar, not the menu that appears when you right-click on a group. I don't know why. )
Congrats! Now all your icons are frames in an animation. Each cell on the timeline is a single icon. If you have a scroll wheel, you can scroll to quickly look through them all.
If you can't see all of your icons on the timeline, click the three bars here and set 'clip end' to whatever number of icons you have ( or a little more, for extra wiggle room. )
Find the last filled cell, right-click it and select 'set end time.'
When you're ready, hit File > Render animation.
You'll want to make sure you set it to export as an image sequence, and select where you want your icons to go on your computer. Give them a naming scheme.
Make sure you save before you export your icons, as I've had Krita crash while exporting a large number of icons all at once.
( If it does this to you, just try again. Worst comes to worst, you can export by setting the first frames and last frames to smaller chunks instead of all at once. )
Hit OK and voila! No more saving icons out one-by-one!
Of course, we haven't done any editing yet, so this is all redundant unless you're saving out your own freshly-cropped icons. Let's move onto the fun part:
Part 2: Editing
Right-click your new group layer and hit add > filter mask. Choose any you want- for demonstration purposes, I'll be using my favorite: gradient map.
This will put that filter over all frames in that animation layer, meaning you won't have to repeat your edits per icon.
If you want to edit your filter mask after you click off, just right-click it in the layer tab and select 'properties.' It will bring the initial prompt up again for you to adjust.
You can add as many filter masks as you want! The order the layers are in does matter, though, so keep that in mind.
If you want to add frames, banners, name tags, symbols etc, you can do that on layers over or under that animation layer! They'll stay consistent across the 'animation' unless you add new frames to them on the timeline.
If you want to edit your icons again, just do so, and re-export! If the naming scheme and numbers are the same, Krita will automatically overwrite the old files. But watch out; if you're trying to save new icons, make sure you start numbering at a higher number than your last icon, or change the base name.
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