10-21-2003, 10:40 PM
An Icon is a small graphic which is used as the symbolic equivalent of a file. There are "large" and "small" icons, 32x32 and 16x16, respectively.
A lot of applications have icons "in" them, because when they create files, the files will appear with these icons in Windows Explorer, etc.
Icons can also be standalone files, typically with the .ico extension.
If you want to create your own Icon from a graphic, you'll need an Icon editor. Here is a link to what I got when I searched PC World online for "icon" in the Downloads section. Most of the results are libraries of Icons; you may wish to browse a few of these for something that will suit your purposes.
Alternatively, you can use any graphics editor to edit the picture down to 32x32, then use IconForge (it's in the list) to create and save an .ico file from the picture.
Good luck!
Orbert
A lot of applications have icons "in" them, because when they create files, the files will appear with these icons in Windows Explorer, etc.
Icons can also be standalone files, typically with the .ico extension.
If you want to create your own Icon from a graphic, you'll need an Icon editor. Here is a link to what I got when I searched PC World online for "icon" in the Downloads section. Most of the results are libraries of Icons; you may wish to browse a few of these for something that will suit your purposes.
Alternatively, you can use any graphics editor to edit the picture down to 32x32, then use IconForge (it's in the list) to create and save an .ico file from the picture.
Good luck!
Orbert
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