AZOET Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Hi,I am a new user of PTE, and am making now my first project, and it is almost finished. But now I have a question. May be through my less knowledge of the English language, but I can't find how I can make a pictrogram for an icon for my first project. Can anyone tell me, how I can do that? Or were I can find it how to do that?Many thanks for your help!Annemiek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Hi Annemiek,Icons are either sixteen by sixteen or thirty two by thirty two pixels. You can take any jpg file and resize it using Photoshop or other software then save it as a Compuserve GIF file with 256 colors only (no more than 256 colors). Then open the file in a program like IrfanView which will let you save it as an icon with the .ico extension (Windows Icon). Obviously, it best if you use an image which is closely cropped so there is a major subject or even a design rather than lots of detail. Fewer colors are better than lots of colors. Sometimes it's nice to put about a four pixel black border around a 32 pixel icon for better visibility.The essence is that an icon must be 32 pixels or 16 pixels square (32 looks better) and must have no more than 256 colors. Since a Compuserve GIF file is 256 colors it's just convenient to save a jpg this way to strip off the excess colors then simply open the GIF and save it as an .ico file.Best regards,LinHi,I am a new user of PTE, and am making now my first project, and it is almost finished. But now I have a question. May be through my less knowledge of the English language, but I can't find how I can make a pictrogram for an icon for my first project. Can anyone tell me, how I can do that? Or were I can find it how to do that?Many thanks for your help!Annemiek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfa Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 Welcome to the world of PTE AVs and the user forum Annemiek, you will find lots of help and advice here.If you haven't already got the Windows graphic viewer "IrfanView" you can get it for free from here:http://www.irfanview.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidh12 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 Thanks for the question and the answers and link I have found that useful.Just tried it.One further question how do I now link that with my exe file as some people have doneso when you run explore the icon appears with the file?David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 project options/main/use yourown icon/add iconput your icon in your working folder and direct "add icon" to the folder's pathken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidh12 Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 Brilliant, thanks Ken, I never thought of looking for it in PTE was looking to do it Windows.Probably not using half the programs capabilities. (Must find time to read Lin's instructions).Thanks again.David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZOET Posted September 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 Lin,Many thanks for your clear explanation how to make an icon, it just works!Thanks to JFA for giving the link of Irfanview,and at last thanks to Ken for his answer to DJH!All these answers did help me a lot!Especially I will say to Lin and Jeff "Thank You", for their PTE 5 Manual!I have read it for several times now, and is very helpfull to me!Thanks again for your work!Best regards, Annemiek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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