Uploaded June 2013 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
Some of my favorite years of my life were spent wrapped up in a classic game like Zelda, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana... You get the idea.
All these games were based in the good ol 8bit/16bit days where pixel art (sprites) ruled the gaming industry.
Taking a trip back down memory lane I decided to create myself a new desktop background and on the net I was not able to find any suitable icons for the games I wanted.
So the solution of course as always, If you want something done right do it yourself!
All we need for this project is some free time, motivation, a image editor (using Photoshop) and a free icon program called Greenfish Icon Editor Pro
If you do not have photoshop I would use Gimp, it should be able to do all these simple tasks just with different tools.
I hope everybody enjoys the video and learns something, there are a few neat tricks here like color range selection and also how to use the pencil tool as an eraser.
Some of my favorite years of my life were spent wrapped up in a classic game like Zelda, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana... You get the idea.
All these games were based in the good ol 8bit/16bit days where pixel art (sprites) ruled the gaming industry.
Taking a trip back down memory lane I decided to create myself a new desktop background and on the net I was not able to find any suitable icons for the games I wanted.
So the solution of course as always, If you want something done right do it yourself!
All we need for this project is some free time, motivation, a image editor (using Photoshop) and a free icon program called Greenfish Icon Editor Pro
If you do not have photoshop I would use Gimp, it should be able to do all these simple tasks just with different tools.
I hope everybody enjoys the video and learns something, there are a few neat tricks here like color range selection and also how to use the pencil tool as an eraser.
