Has anyone made templates for these?

[isnorden]

I have begun work on a modpack which will add lots of material to Civ5--new resources, new units, new buildings, new religions to choose from. Have any modders made templates or utilities for the kinds of graphic work I'll need? Specifically, I'm looking for these--

1. Templates for resource and building portraits.
2. Templates for religious selection (making a new symbol fit the same size and color as the others on the "found a religion" screen).
3. Templates for unit icons (the colored shape-with-a-symbol-inslde above each unit); ideally, it would come with a color-selecting utility.
4. Templates and/or utilities for font icons (those tiny pictures that can be added to a text description, like the scroll for Culture or the anvil for Iron). With new resources coming, giving each one a separate symbol and "ICON_FOO]" label is best.
5. Some kind of tool for recoloring/tweaking terrain resources. (Being able to tell Barley and Wheat apart on the map should be possible by color alone; the same applies to Flax and Cotton, or to Berries and Dyes.)

If any of those is a simple operation in a program like Photoshop (2-3 other steps between opening and saving the picture, only one setting to change), then it should go into a guide/tutorial on graphics modding; I'm not so good at that part yet. For the requests that already have templates or modding tools made, could you please tell me where to get those? (I'm using an old PC with WinXP Home Edition, if that matters.) Many thanks!

 

[Putmalk]

Actually all of them can be done on GIMP or Photoshop. The actual method is the tough part. I usually ask for help on doing my graphics, but that's because I have to allocate myself on other parts of my mod (i.e. getting it working).

 

[isnorden]

Actually all of them can be done on GIMP or Photoshop. The actual method is the tough part. I usually ask for help on doing my graphics, but that's because I have to allocate myself on other parts of my mod (i.e. getting it working).

That makes two of us: most of my work on a mod (including remods!) involves struggling with the code and the onscreen text. If I can find other modders to help with the pictures, that usually works out best--hey, I'm happy to mention them in the Special Thanks section of a .modinfo file. Still, I know that most of the graphics experts here are swamped with requests; I was looking for some shortcuts I could use, just in case no one else was free to help.

 

[chrome-rome]

I'd actually be interested in number 4 as well; for some reason, I cannot figure it out . As for the an icon template for 1 and 3, sukritact has one in a PSD format here.