Making Icons

jsburnett · Post by **jsburnett** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:56 am

I have been searching for a way to make my icons - can anyone give me any information on what has worked best or not worked?

Thanks.

John

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:32 am

On Windows, I use IcoFX which is freeware and can make not only XP and Vista icons, but Mac icons in the icns format as well.

http://www.icofx.ro/

On the Mac, I don't remember what I used... It's been a while, and I don't remember if there was anything on Linux either.

*EDIT: I just remember that the latest version of Gimp has icon support now, but not sure if that means support for Mac icons though, and not sure if this ability is present across all platforms or if it's just for Windows.

http://www.gimp.org/

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:53 am

Hello John,

IcoFX is a great icon editor for Windows. For Mac, I use Apple's Icon Composer, which is included with Apple's Developer Tools.

I use an image editor to design the icon and use IcoFX or Icon Composer to convert the picture into an icon.

For Linux, you can use ico files. Perhaps you could even use PNG files. I don't know of a way to automatically attach an icon to an executable file. It would be great if I had a shell command to attach an icon.

Best,

Mark

andyh1234 · Post by **andyh1234** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:30 pm

Im using iconworks from Axialis, its not free but it works really well, comes with lots of components you can build up icons with and then save them to both windows and mac formats.