What do you folks use to create icons?
in [Visual Basic]
|
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 17 Mar 2010 22:47 Folks I'm curious as to what tools folks use to create icons. Mostly because I'd like to have a page on my website with a bit of info on icons and links to icon editors. I've been using Icon Edit (a Component of Icon Suite http://www.bouffler.freeserve.co.uk/) which is freeware. It's decent enough for someone of my very limited/non existent graphic skills. However it has one irritating feature which is that the transparent pixel feature isn't documented very well or at all. Also there is no way, that I know of, of telling it to make a specific background or colour transparent. Thanks, Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Shotgun Thom on 18 Mar 2010 01:26 On Mar 17, 7:47 pm, "Tony Toews [MVP]" <tto...(a)telusplanet.net> wrote: > Folks > > I'm curious as to what tools folks use to create icons. Mostly > because I'd like to have a page on my website with a bit of info on > icons and links to icon editors. > > I've been using Icon Edit (a Component of Icon Suitehttp://www.bouffler.freeserve.co.uk/) which is freeware. It's decent > enough for someone of my very limited/non existent graphic skills. > However it has one irritating feature which is that the transparent > pixel feature isn't documented very well or at all. Also there is > no way, that I know of, of telling it to make a specific background or > colour transparent. > > Thanks, Tony > -- > Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP > Tony's Main MS Access pages -http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm > Tony's Microsoft Access Blog -http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ > For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files > updated seehttp://www.autofeupdater.com/ > Granite Fleet Managerhttp://www.granitefleet.com/ I use two... 1. IcoFX. Very full featured. A little bit of a learning curve but it's an excellent program. Freeware. The link is: http://icofx.ro/ 2. iICO: This is actually a VB6 project created by Carles PV on PSC. It's over 4 years old and I believe Carles has moved on... but the icon program is great. It does ARGB icons (32 bit) and you can mix and match icon styles and formats in a single file. For example you can create a 24bit true color or 256 color 16x16 for your VB project for form icon and also have a 32 bit version for your desktop in the same icon file. You can import PNG and other files. Very good. Less of a learning curve. Easy to use. The link is: http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=54968&lngWId=1 Tom
From: Dee Earley on 18 Mar 2010 07:57 On 18/03/2010 02:47, Tony Toews [MVP] wrote: > Folks > > I'm curious as to what tools folks use to create icons. Mostly > because I'd like to have a page on my website with a bit of info on > icons and links to icon editors. I use Visual studio (often working directly in resource files) and Paint shop pro for the graphics side of things. > I've been using Icon Edit (a Component of Icon Suite > http://www.bouffler.freeserve.co.uk/) which is freeware. It's decent > enough for someone of my very limited/non existent graphic skills. > However it has one irritating feature which is that the transparent > pixel feature isn't documented very well or at all. Also there is > no way, that I know of, of telling it to make a specific background or > colour transparent. You normally use flood fill to replace whatever colour you want with the background colour (in VS). Obviously a full editor should allow alpha levels, etc. -- Dee Earley (dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk) i-Catcher Development Team iCode Systems
From: Paul Clement on 18 Mar 2010 08:33 On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:47:09 -0600, "Tony Toews [MVP]" <ttoews(a)telusplanet.net> wrote: � Folks � � I'm curious as to what tools folks use to create icons. Mostly � because I'd like to have a page on my website with a bit of info on � icons and links to icon editors. � � I've been using Icon Edit (a Component of Icon Suite � http://www.bouffler.freeserve.co.uk/) which is freeware. It's decent � enough for someone of my very limited/non existent graphic skills. � However it has one irritating feature which is that the transparent � pixel feature isn't documented very well or at all. Also there is � no way, that I know of, of telling it to make a specific background or � colour transparent. � � Thanks, Tony I use either Microangelo (http://www.microangelo.us/) or IconWorkshop (http://www.axialis.com/iconworkshop/). Paul ~~~~ Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)
From: mayayana on 18 Mar 2010 10:30 I mostly use IconEdit32 from PCMag, but I see now that it's not free anymore. The version I have is limited, and only makes 256-color (8-bit) icons, but I'm usually just converting a BMP. I don't try to draw them in the program. It's just too tedious to work at the pixel level. I create something in Paint Shop Pro and then convert it. Years ago I wrote my own program to create 24-bit icons. It's not really terribly involved. You just need to build a 2-bit mask image to designate the transparent regions. Then you write an icon header to file, followed by the icon BMP, followed by the mask BMP. I don't know about 32-bit icons. Perhaps they require a 3rd mask for alpha? I still stick pretty much to 8-bit icons. I suppose that 24-bit are probably universally supported by now, but if someone is running with 16-bit display a 24-bit icon can look very ugly. Another thing I often use is IrfanView. That's handy and very easy if you have something like a GIF, where you just want 1 specific color to be transparent. > I'm curious as to what tools folks use to create icons. Mostly > because I'd like to have a page on my website with a bit of info on > icons and links to icon editors. > > Also there is > no way, that I know of, of telling it to make a specific background or > colour transparent. > When that's all you need you can use IrfanView. Just save the image as .ico and click the color you want transparent. You have to watch out for faulty icons, though. Some editors make 24-bit icons that look fine on Win9x but have a black background (visible mask image) on at least some NT systems. I once traced that to a particular byte in the file header, but I don't remember now which byte it is.
|
Next
|
Last
Pages: 1 2 Prev: Run time error 4003�?'what can I do ? Next: using CFileSearch by Ulrich Korndoerfer |