Making My Own ICONS...

[skip2mylou]

hey everyone,
i was takin a new look at my desktop and thought "man, im plain." so i decided to add a little kick to my cyber self. i searched GOOGLE, and found that people made icons, and i thought that was pretty cool, and it would be a nice change from the standard FOLDER picture. so could anybody please advise on HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN ICONS. thanks.

[reboot]

Iconforge. http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_if.html
Actually any good editor such as (your current fave) Gimp or PSP.
http://www.graphic-converter.net/
http://www.autoimager.com/more_info/2/convert-bmp-to-ico.htm
http://users.pandora.be/liontech/ (free)
http://www.microangelo.us/
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconutils/

[skip2mylou]

ok, so what extension do i save it as?

[reboot]

.ico

An icon is nothing but a jpg, tiff, gif, or whatever, with the .ico extention.
They MUST be a certain size though (32x32 or 48x48 pixels).

[jackal70058]

I got a utility IconEdit 32 but I don't remember where it came from. Ive made tons of my own icons and modified Windows icons.

[Shadow57]

I got a utility IconEdit 32 but I don't remember where it came from. Ive made tons of my own icons and modified Windows icons.

Maybe this is it...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1658439,00.asp

or this...

http://www.iconedit2.com/

[skip2mylou]

wow, this icon thing is pretty easy. thanks guys. like my good friend reboot pointed out, i used one of my favorite apps, GIMP, to output the jpegs into icos, a little TOO simple, dont you think..?

[reboot]

Nope, not too simple at all, but MS would have us think that .ico is a very mystical type of magic button, that only THEY can control...bwah, ha, ha, ha...

[skip2mylou]

hehe, that made me laugh...he he LOL