Any icon making s/w ???

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_lordJaz

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Hi all,

Can any1 tell me about any free icon creating s/w?? and from where to dload the same??

TIA :)
 

theraven

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free ?
im sorry i dunno of any free ones :|
the better ones (shareware) are stardocks' icon developer
and microangelo which is very old. . i wonder what happened to it
anyways then theres axialis icon workshop to convert png's to ico's
 

Biplav

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hey raven, i got aston and wat i see is when i take my mouse pointer to any icon it changes like its animated. it looks good and the format of the icon was png or something of that sort.
now how do i make those kind of icons tat would animate when clicked ???
 

Kl@w-24

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I don't think there is a way to create animated icons for Windows... If there is any, I'd love to get my hands on it !!!
 

club_pranay

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u dont have to search for the software dude!!

1. open ms paint
2. Press ctrl+E
3. set height and width 80 pixels
4. draw your own icon
5. save as *.ico

you're done!!
 

navjotjsingh

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club_pranay said:
u dont have to search for the software dude!!

1. open ms paint
2. Press ctrl+E
3. set height and width 80 pixels
4. draw your own icon
5. save as *.ico

you're done!!

Nice tip but softwares like MicroAngelo are much better.
 

Biplav

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I dont know whether there is a way to create or not. but with aston when i move my mouse over it, the icon animates
I suppose this has been created so we should also be able to do so.
 

khattam_

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club_pranay said:
u dont have to search for the software dude!!

1. open ms paint
2. Press ctrl+E
3. set height and width 80 pixels
4. draw your own icon
5. save as *.ico

you're done!!

Will this create real iconz...........

I really doubt it..............
 

Kl@w-24

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Yup, it sure creates REAL iconz ;) But no one has yet given any info on animated iconz... :( I don't think th Windows shell allows it...
 

theraven

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@biplav.. thats what aston does ...
it probably has settings for it
afaik theres no way to create "animated icons"
and yeah completely forgot abt the ms paint trick
it definitely works and can be quite easier
thanx @club_pranay
 

club_pranay

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khattam_ said:
club_pranay said:
u dont have to search for the software dude!!

1. open ms paint
2. Press ctrl+E
3. set height and width 80 pixels
4. draw your own icon
5. save as *.ico

you're done!!

Will this create real iconz...........

I really doubt it..............

well brother, it works, as far as i know.
the best thing about it is that you dont have to install a seperate software for creating icons!!
 

Biplav

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:cry: bad.
no way to create animated icons. huh? wonder how these programs do it.
 

Gaurav

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Microangelo 5.5.9c is the best. SHAREWARE. search for it's full version through google you will get it.
 

tekkrazy

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GConvert is the king...makes cursors too

GConvert is a full-featured icon toolkit that everyone who likes icons should use: with it you can extract, view, create, edit, manage & convert icons without requiring any additional tool or knowledge.

GConvert extracts icons from files and displays them in a list: you then select the icon you want and it can converted to the format of your choice. GConvert reads any icon files such as executable, DLL, ICL, OCX, VBX, CPL, BPL, NIL, IL, SCR, CUR, ICNS, ZIP, RSRC files and allows you to save extracted icons as icon, bitmap, PNG, Adobe Photoshop PSD, and many other popular formats (JPEG, GIF...); copy them to the Windows clipboard or drag/drop them for direct use into your applications, documents, Web pages...

Get the latest (shareware) version (4.1) at *www.gdgsoft.com/gconvert/
 
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