i'm trying to make an ico icon for my app notifyicon control, every image is scale (using photoshop) look distorted and "unclear" is there an acceptable method of creating ico that i'm not aware of ?
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i'm trying to make an ico icon for my app notifyicon control, every image is scale (using photoshop) look distorted and "unclear" is there an acceptable method of creating ico that i'm not aware of ?
This is not a vb.net question...
But inside the IDE you have an "image editor" you can create your icons there.Code:Application Properties\Resources\New Icon
but i have an existing image i want to display as icon and not create of from scracth
Like i said that's not a question for this forum :P
But the only way that i know, it's after openning the image in photoshop, select image\image size... then set the new size (32x32 for example) and set the type for Bicubic Sharper...
did that, still distorted , well thank you anyway.
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Distorted how? What's the original image size (pixels)? DPIs?
not looking clear, original size is 114,94 px and i scale it to 32,32 px
Can you post here the image...
You need to either crop the image to 94 x 94 and scale it to 32 x 32, or pad it to 114 x 114 and scale to 32 x 32.Quote:
Originally Posted by motil
ok thanks i'll try it
Icons are a little tricky to make, especially if you want nice, alpha-blended edges to eliminate that jagged, chunky look older icons have. There's a professional image editing program out there called GIMP that's free to download and use. It's very powerful, possible just as powerful as Adobe Photoshop.
With it, you can make your icon and save it as a PNG file. Make a set of PNG files of various standard sizes: 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 16x16. Then using another free tool called png2ico, bind them all together into an .ico file.
Thanks!
Hey, that's great. Now, can anybody teach me to draw? My problem is not so much the size of the icon as my utter inability to draw, which makes the icon look like crap.
well, no one is perfect! :p
That's my problem to... Lack of ideas, design guidelines, and so on... :)
that's alright I'm not an artist nor designer as well, just some basic knowledge of PS :)
Most of the icons I make, I don't draw, I just fond some simple graphics, cut out the background, fix the edges, shrink to 32x32 and see if it's still recognizable. If it is, then I see of 16x16 is still halfway recognizable too. If that isn't, I may pencil in the 16x16 by hand. Making something on a 16x16 pallet isn't hard! :)
The beauty of icons, is that each size is a completely different picture, and thus, can be a completely different thing. An example is the icon for our flagship produxt. At 32x32, it's our product logo, a colorized, stylish image. At 16x16, that logo becomes totally unrecognizable, so we just used a simple white box with the company's initials "DS" in it.
Of course the resized image will look distorted because the aspect ratio wasn't maintained when you resize it.Quote:
Originally Posted by motil
Usually i just create the main icon from some pictures. Or just use the freeware ones (for toolbars, menus, etc).
I havent got the time or the skill to make anything that looks nice, so I just bought about 60000 icons from here a while ago: http://www.iconshock.com/
You don't mind telling us how much it cost you for the 60000 icons you bought, do you?Quote:
Originally Posted by chris128
That was a typo actually, it was 600000 not 60000 (came on 40 DVDs or something) - it cost about £200 I think. Which is a lot of money just for some images... but a lot less than any other icon company I found when comparing the quantity, quality and the amount of different formats you get the icons in. As I'm using WPF to make nice looking applications I figured it was worth actually getting some decent looking images to go in them instead of ruining them with my own custom creations. I mean there is no way I could make anything that looked remotely as good as this: http://www.iconshock.com/icon-sets/s...ing-icons.html
EDIT: Looks like they have since added another 100000 icons to the collection as well
Thanks Chris... Yeah, their icons look very good and the prices are very resonable too.
Which deal did you buy? I see the link you showed has 3360 icons for $129 US, where's the 600,000 one?
yeah its weird, they have this mega deal which they dont seem to advertise until after you say you want to buy one of the normal sets. Basically when you add a set to your cart and then try and pay it asks if you want to pay an extra £100 for the entire current collection (or an extra £200 for the vector based Adobe Illustrator source files as well etc).
AH! Ok, I see it now. Yea, when you click on Buy Now, they give you the option for a subscription which allows you to download anything on their site for $370 US for the next 6 months or something. That's a pretty cool find.
I wish they'd advertise that factoid up front because I always shied away from the site because I thought you could ONLY buy the things set-by-set. If you see an icon you want to use in this set and another in this set over here, and a third in this set here, that's $375 you've spent already and you only have 3 icons you actually want, and 9000 you probably don't.
Yeah I think its pretty daft that they dont advertise it as well. I would never have even attempted to buy from them if DeanMc hadnt told me about that deal..