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How can I make an icon?
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Name: Noci Runi
Date: February 11, 2001 at 19:19:00 Pacific
Subject: How can I make an icon?
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Comment: How can I make an icon from scratch? Can I make them in any image editor like MS paint? Is there a specific size they have to be? Or does anybody know a site that explains this process. thanks everyone!
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Response Number 1
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Name: wcr3d
Date: February 11, 2001 at 19:28:38 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You can make them in Paint but you won't be able so save them as the right file format. Save them as a .gif and then get a program like Microangelo (Shareware) and convert them to a .ico or .icl. There are a few different sizes that are used in different places and this is what the .icl (Icon Resource Library) is used for.
HTH,
wcr3d
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Response Number 5
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Name: mamm
Date: February 12, 2001 at 00:38:10 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You can make an icon from any bitmap, just rename the file with the ext. ICO example:
lake.bmp rename to lake.ico
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Response Number 6
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Name: Bryan
Date: February 12, 2001 at 03:29:21 Pacific
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Reply: (edit) bmp2icon 1.0 for Win9x/NT4 (141 kb)
Updated: Sep 17, 1999
Homepage
Author: Pagewell Software
Description: "Utility/Tool for converting bitmaps into icons."
I was unable to connect to their homepage but this is a direct download link... http://www.nonags.com/files/?/grapht/bmp2icon.zip
It is not very good but it works.
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