E-flite UMX Hyper Taxi

Icon for the Eflite UMX Hyper Taxi, blends with Deviation background.

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Comments Welcome!

Well I first tried to make them transparent so they can be used on any background. The thing is if I use ARGB155 with photoshop the icons will simply not display in Deviation. See attached SP125 transparent icon as example.

I did not want to make the background solid as I wanted the model to "fly" over the GUI. So since transparency did not work I went for "transparency illusion" to achieve my goal.

It will indeed look odd on a custom background (different from stock Deviation background), icon solid background would not improve much in that case.

If the transparency issue is solved I can quickly re-save the icons without the background layer and re-upload them so they could be used on any system background.

FDR wrote: Yep, because your alpha (transparency) channel is all black.
It should be black only on the transparent parts, but this way the whole content is transparent...

Alright I can do fine with the basic model shape and export as BMP with transparency. Things become more complicated if want to apply a drop shadow effect to the basic shape and export the whole thing with transparency ----> shadow appeard on white background ---> bad bad bad. Any idea?

There you go...
This actually how I came to make the icons the way they are using "fake transparency" ....