What do you folks use to create icons?

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Tony Toews [MVP]

Folks

I'm curious as to what tools folks use to create icons. Mostly
because I'd like to have a page on my website with a bit of info on
icons and links to icon editors.

I've been using Icon Edit (a Component of Icon Suite
http://www.bouffler.freeserve.co.uk/) which is freeware. It's decent
enough for someone of my very limited/non existent graphic skills.
However it has one irritating feature which is that the transparent
pixel feature isn't documented very well or at all. Also there is
no way, that I know of, of telling it to make a specific background or
colour transparent.

Thanks, Tony
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:53:49 -0600, "Tony Toews [MVP]"

I typically find them online, here for example:
www.iconarchive.com
As a matter of fact for a client using your AutoFEUpdater we needed a
dozen icons in the same family, and found them here.

-Tom.
Microsoft Access MVP
 
SnagIt will also save as icon files.

I love SnagIt for lots of reasons but should also reveal that I get a free
copy which saves me less than $50 for a program worth much more.
 
I use snagit editor for basic graphic manipulation (example: I tend to take
ribbon images and want them on my forms so I change the background color a
tweak a bit).
I use IcoFx which is free for icons. Not sure how it compares to what you
are using?

HTH,
 
I've been using Icon Edit (a Component of Icon Suite
http://www.bouffler.freeserve.co.uk/) which is freeware. It's
decent enough for someone of my very limited/non existent graphic
skills. However it has one irritating feature which is that the
transparent pixel feature isn't documented very well or at all.
Also there is no way, that I know of, of telling it to make a
specific background or colour transparent.
Click to expand...

I thought that the pixel in the upper left (or is it upper right?)
corner of the icon became the transparent color?
 
SnagIt will also save as icon files.
Click to expand...

Does it create multi-format icon files? If not, it's not much good,
as an icon file with a single icon in it is just a bitmap with the
ICO extension. In other words, if you need only a single icon size,
you don't need an icon editor at all, only something that can create
a bitmap file. It has to be the right size, though, and it has to
conform to the rule for the transparent background pixel (see my
other post).
 
David W. Fenton said:
I thought that the pixel in the upper left (or is it upper right?)
corner of the icon became the transparent color?
Click to expand...

I have no idea on that detail.

Tony
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Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
 
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