Gokuma Posted December 4, 2003 I got some crappy MS image editor that can only do 16 color icons. It must have been made for Windows 3.1. It's really sad that when I make icons of 8-bit Nintendo graphics (not exactly known for being high color), skin color becomes yellow or light gray. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted December 4, 2003 I use png2ico when I have to make icons. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted December 4, 2003 I use Microangelo. http://www.microangelo.us/ 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted December 4, 2003 Heh, Microangelo was probably the first third party application I ever installed on a computer. Spent countless hours making animations with it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Infinite Ammunition Posted December 4, 2003 I use IconArt and IcoEdit, both of which can be found at webattack.com. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted December 4, 2003 I use IconArt, and it is great. You can import images and turn them into icons (if they actualy survive the massive compression). :P 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted December 4, 2003 I can't understand why image editing software can't simply export to icon format. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted December 4, 2003 AndrewB said:I can't understand why image editing software can't simply export to icon format.I can't understand why .ico is still the only icon format that Microsoft Windows supports. 0 Share this post Link to post
Psyonisis Posted December 5, 2003 Fredrik said:I can't understand why .ico is still the only icon format that Microsoft Windows supports. Wait, there's something else? 0 Share this post Link to post
insertwackynamehere Posted December 5, 2003 I use the default one that comes with Microsoft Visual Studio. You don't have many options, but it's as easy as making a (simple) bitmap. 0 Share this post Link to post
mmnpsrsoskl Posted December 5, 2003 Erm, an icon can be resized to 16x16 and changed from a bitmap. I used to do that all the time. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted December 5, 2003 Psyonisis said:Wait, there's something else? Any conventional image format. 0 Share this post Link to post
nxn Posted December 5, 2003 I can't think of another image format that can contains multiple resolutions of an image in one file. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted December 5, 2003 nxn said:I can't think of another image format that can contains multiple resolutions of an image in one file. Possibly not, but Fredrik did not imply that ico should be done away with, but rather that as well as supporting ico, other formats could be supported. A helluva lot of people must just want to make a simple image and use it as an icon without having a bunch of different resolutions and colour depths. A lot of files only have one icon format in them anyway and Windows resizes them to suit the display option at the time. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted December 5, 2003 nxn said:I can't think of another image format that can contains multiple resolutions of an image in one file. What Enjay said. In many (if not most) cases, one resolution and one color depth suffices. 0 Share this post Link to post
Xaser Posted December 6, 2003 I use Jasc Animation Studio, which came free with my Paint Shop Pro 7 disk, to create animated .ani cursors. Works like a charm. 0 Share this post Link to post