isabel95 Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 I've always been able to make usable icons with Irfanview, but I kept getting error messages. I made the icons 16 x 16 and 16 colors.Can anyone set me straight as to how to prepare an icon for version 4.3?TIA.Isabel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Isabel with irfanviewopen a jpg save as *.icothen try setting to the following32x32 256 colouri checked my icon folder and found one as low as 7 coloursi always have to diddle the colour setting it can be done - just perservere:)ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronwil Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 IsabelThe following is a piece I wrote for a club member. It may help.I make my original creation in Photoshop usually from an image within the sequence, cropping it to 4x4 ratio. I then add lettering usually three characters otherwise they will not show. I then reduce the image to 32 x 32 pixels and save as a *.jpg file.Next I use the IrfanView programme a freebie downloaded on the Internet. There are various sites if you search, but try www.IrfanView.com. Once you have the programme, open it and select File>Open and your saved file above. Check from Image>Resize Resample that the image is still 32x 32 pixels and from Image>Decrease color depth that it is set at 256 colors (here I have found it necessary for use in PTE to select 16 colors then back to 256 colors, don’t ask me why)Then, still in IrfanView, File>Save as>File Type>ICO-Windows Icon, give it a file name and select where you want it saved. I have a separate folder for my icons and I also save it in my Project file for the sequence.Ron [uK] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isabel95 Posted December 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 Isabel with irfanviewopen a jpg save as *.icothen try setting to the following32x32 256 colouri checked my icon folder and found one as low as 7 coloursi always have to diddle the colour setting it can be done - just perservere:)ken Thanks, Ken. As I replied to you via email 32 x 32 x 256 worked just fine!I'm just puzzled as to why 16 x 16 x 16 didn't!Oh, well, the larger dimensions have to make a better icon anyway!Thanks again.Isabel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 Isabel,Did you try 16 x 16 x 256? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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