Does Anyone Know How To....

DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can't Comm.England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
edited February 2004 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Make Icons? Help?</div> Hopefully someone can help me with this:
I made a program for cleaning out the Windows Clipboard
(Its nothing special but it makes my life a little easier)
but I don't like the default icon. So I want to know
how to design my own.

What program can do it?
Is the file-extension .ico?
Yes you can have the program is you want it (completely free)
but let me get the icon sorted first :-)


[edit]Quick Edit There, Nothing Special[/edit]
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  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    use mspaint and save it as .ico <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • FamFam Diaper-Wearing Dog On A Ball Join Date: 2002-02-17 Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    edited February 2004
    Personally, I use Photoshop and <a href='http://www.axialis.com/axicons/' target='_blank'>IconWorkshop</a>. Works very nciely indeed. I believe the demo of Iconworkshop has a 30 day trial, with no limited functionality.

    The file extension is .ico, which is a library of a number of different images which are used on different Windows versions, at different colour depths and sizes. You should make your icon in Photoshop at about 128x128 pixels, on a transparent background, with alpha transparency, and compress it to one layer. Or you can tell IconWorkshop to use a PNG, or even a gif if you dont care about it looking nice on Windows XP.
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    I tried that Caboose but its has to comply to a certain
    colo(u)r limitation.
    Thanks Fam, downloading IconWorkshop now. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    Check out <a href='http://www.microangelo.us/' target='_blank'>Microangelo</a>, its the best icon editor I've ever used.
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    Thanks for the replies guys. I used Fam's link and
    made an icon in roughly 2 minutes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    At the moment it's an exclusive to these forums
    so feel honored. :-P
    <a href='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.taylor2/downloads/ClipBoardClearer.zip' target='_blank'>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.taylor2/...oardClearer.zip</a>


    12k - Compressed into a .zip file with a Read Me.txt file.

    Feedback and idea's for future projects appreciated.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Feb 14 2004, 01:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Feb 14 2004, 01:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Check out <a href='http://www.microangelo.us/' target='_blank'>Microangelo</a>, its the best icon editor I've ever used. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    but you have to <i>pay</i>.. and if you don't, then you get annoying messages, like, every 5 mouseclicks >_<
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  • FamFam Diaper-Wearing Dog On A Ball Join Date: 2002-02-17 Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I would say that Microangelo comes in a distinct second to IconWorkshop. IconWorkshop allows you to make your icon entirely in Photoshop, and then within 4 clicks have it saved as an icon in every format needed.

    Thants not to say Microangelo isnt good, but Ive tried them all, and iconWorkshop really does put the cherry on the cake.
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    YEah I gotta admit, IconWorkshop was amazingly easy to use.
    I had it open for less than 5 minutes and got the job done.
    A simple job but a complete one non-the-less <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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