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Icon maker, anyone got a good one?

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Post June 14th, 2006, 9:42 am

I need an icon maker, or a plugin for photoshop that will let me make icons, i found 2 seemingly good and appaerntly free programs but one of them did not work and the other was not free, i also found a photoshop plugin but it corrupted photoshop and i had to re-install photoshop.

someone must know of a good icon making program. Also it will be great if it allows you to import other graphics then convert into icons.

thanks for reading


note: this may be an icon for a program and or a favicon
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Post June 14th, 2006, 9:42 am

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Post June 14th, 2006, 3:21 pm

This photoshop addon worked perfectly for me when i installed it to Photoshop 7 a few months ago. I am not sure which version you have and i havn't tried it with CS2 yet.

Download it and read the instructions, once that is done you should be able to create Icons.

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Post June 15th, 2006, 8:01 am

brilliant, i will check it out
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Post June 17th, 2006, 9:15 am

I use IconArt which is free, you can upgrade to Pro if you want.
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Post June 20th, 2006, 2:56 am

Worth checkin out i guess...
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Post July 13th, 2006, 10:08 am

or you can just save the file as an .ico
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Post July 13th, 2006, 1:45 pm

minipwn wrote:
or you can just save the file as an .ico


In Adobe Photoshop 7.0 you cannot save a file as an .ico file unless you have got the plugin that i linked above installed.
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Post July 14th, 2006, 11:10 am

I would normally just save the file as a gif image in photoshop (I use CS2) and then open the file with paint and save it with the .ico file extension I normally dont lose any image quality
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Post July 14th, 2006, 11:45 am

when i make favicons i save the image as a jpeg.. then go to the files location and change the name to .ico
and it works fine..lol
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Post July 14th, 2006, 12:37 pm

Yes, but if you have a facility that allows you to save the files as a .ico file in Photoshop then why not use it? Save yourself a bit of time at the end of the day and you won't lose quality.
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Post July 17th, 2006, 10:28 pm

illustrator works well with making icons and stuff.
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Post March 16th, 2007, 7:20 pm

ArtIcons Pro is good.
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Post March 28th, 2007, 10:18 am

I've used axialis. I liked it a ton...but it's only a 30-day trial, and my trail is up.

ArtIcons Pro is also a 30-day. Anybody have one that's totally freeware and accomodates transparent icons?

BTW...the IconArt above has a fishy looking link to me...
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Post March 28th, 2007, 10:17 pm

minipwn wrote:
I would normally just save the file as a gif image in photoshop (I use CS2) and then open the file with paint and save it with the .ico file extension I normally dont lose any image quality

YIS! the greatest and most powerful software of all MSPAINT! hahaha :lol:
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Post April 16th, 2007, 9:18 pm

This post might also be what you are looking for:
http://www.ozzu.com/website-design-forum/making-ico-files-such-favicon-ico-with-adobe-photoshop-t255.html
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