New Icons

[DeathShot]

How do I make new icons? Like I was trying to get a cool new icon look for my recycle bin here:

http://rocketdock.com/addon/icons/17057

And

http://rocketdock.com/addon/icons/17056

And like for my FireFox here:

http://rocketdock.com/addon/icons/2710

But I don't know how to put all of the links into the shortcuts I make and put the picture, because when I make a shortcut it's a folder and I click on it and it takes me to the image of it or to the folder -_-

Help please!!

 

[DeathShot]

BUMP


Please!! Someone help me! I'd appreciate it forever!!

 

[Legit^]

you can get custom stuff here

http://www.wincustomize.com/

 

[Toasteddude]

To change the icon for the recycle bin:

Go to your desktop.
Right Click and select "Properties".
Click on the "Desktop" Tab.
Click "Customize Desktop" Button.
Here you will see a bunch of icons including "My Computer" and the ones you want "Recycle Bin Full/Empty".
Click on the icon you want to change, then click "Change Icon..."
Then in the new window that pops up, select "Browse" and navigate to your desired .ico file.

Assuming you already a have desktop icon for Firefox, just right-click that icon, select "Change icon" and do what I said above.

 

[DeathShot]

OK, I get that far and then when I go to try and pick the one I want after I browse into my desktop and then the folder that should have items in it, there aren't any items -_- Help please!!

 

[LightHunter]

Ok well the picture needs to be an .ico file. http://www.entity.cc/icon-from-jpg.php <-- This is a link to a good tutorial on how to do convert the picture to a .Ico file! By the way, thats an awesome sig u got!

 

[Toasteddude]

Ok well the picture needs to be an .ico file. http://www.entity.cc/icon-from-jpg.php <-- This is a link to a good tutorial on how to do convert the picture to a .Ico file! By the way, thats an awesome sig u got!

Yep. I don't know what format the icons you downloaded are in, but they need to be .ico files to be used. Though I can vaguely remember using a BMP file as an icon once...

 

[DeathShot]

Haha, thanks for the comment =) But I still can't get it to work -_- I'm using Google Chrome and I watched tutorial and I'm going step by step:

Get the icon file you want
Open it
And then save it... but when I open it like it says in the videos I don't have a single option to save it anywhere -_- someone help plz!!

 

[DeathShot]

UPDATE: Never mind guys, I give up -.-' every time I try to get it to work, no matter which way I do it (I have tried at least 3 different ways) my computer just wont let me do it for some very strange reason. But, thank you so much for trying to help me =) But I guess my computer just doesn't want new icons -_- But once again, thanks =)

 

[Officer-Pie]

MAKING new icons:

You need the following:

• Graphic Design Program
• Skills or a Tutorial

Okay, lets get started. Your graphic design program, if you do not want to spend $400 on a good one (PHOTOSHOP), get the free version, just as good, called The Gimp.

Get that installed. Then, open it up. You might want to get oriented with some of the tools first. Play around with the tools like: Rectangle Selection Tool, Circle Selection Tool, Bucket, paintbrush, wand selection tool, pencil, and gradient tool. Some of those, you may not need, but it is nice to get to know them. I could only draw, in the paintbrush tool and text tool, my name when I first got the program. Now I can make a sig like the one I have, and much more. Don't feel bad if you can't do much.

Now, to the tutorial. I have no experience with making icons, so here are some good tutorial sites, you may want to take a look at:

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Creating_Icons/ (Actual Icon tutorial)
http://gimp-tutorials.net/ (Good tutorial site)
http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/3d-icons-in-gimp.html (Again, actual tutorial, but this is advanced)
http://www.gimpplus.com/icons/create-a-page-icon-with-gimp/
http://help-developer.com/index.php/2008/06/create-an-rss-feed-iconbutton-part-5/
http://gimp-tutorials.net/node/95
http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/gimp/icons_and_emoticons/

.ICO file

If the file is a .ico, then you're ready to go. If it isn't DON'T RENAME IT! Open it with the gimp or another image manipulation program, and then "Save As" "name.ico". Any other file WILL NOT WORK, last time I checked.

Changing ICONS:

Modified from what Toasteddude to make it more understandable.
Navigate to your shortcut that you wish to change it's icon.
Right Click and select "Properties".
Click on the "Change Icon" Button.
Click "Browse".
Go to the folder which your .ico file is in.
Double click the icon you want it to be.

If you need any additional help, or something cleared up, feel free to post.

 

[DeathShot]

Wow, Officer-Pie, you should make that a little more detailed and then have someone sticky it, this is great, but I still have a question for you, since I get to the last step and then it says, when I click on the icon that I did everything to, "There is no icon logo, please check a different area" (something like that) and then it takes me to a little place and it's a lot of icons but mine's not in there -_- help please!! If you want, come into VENT and you can talk to me or you can just explain right here or any other way. Thanks.

 

[Toasteddude]

Ok, I am going to use that Recycle bin empty icon you linked to as an example here.

So first of all, you downloaded the .ZIP file from that site. Extract this file using your favourite ZIP extraction program. Extract it to a location easy to access, like your desktop. Inside, there is a file named "black empty.png". This file is 512 x 512 pixels (too large) and it is the wrong format. Once you have GIMP installed, open GIMP. Select "File" then click on "Open...". Select "black empty.png" as the file you would like to open. When the file is open in GIMP, click on "Image" (fourth option to the right of "File"). Then select "Scale Image". This will open a new window. This window has a bunch of option but you only need to change one thing. In the little boxes next to WIDTH and HEIGHT, the values are set to 512 each. Change them both to 48 (if you change one, it should automatically change the other). Now the pixel will be reduced to 48x48 pixels. Now go to "File" again and select "Save As". In the NAME field, it says "black empty.png". Change that to "black empty.ico". Then change the SAVE IN FOLDER section to whichever folder you want to save the picture. Click "Save".

Now navigate to your desktop. Right-Click on the desktop and select "Properties". Click on the "Desktop Tab". Click the "Customize Desktop" Button. Here you will see a bunch of icons including "My Computer" and the one we are going to change right now "Recycle Bin Empty". Click on "Recycle Bin Empty" then click "Change Icon..." Then in the new window that pops up, select "Browse" and navigate to wherever you saved "black empty.ico". Double click on it and it should work.

Just make sure, whenever you are trying to do something on the computer, never give up. Many people are willing to help and eventually, you will get it working.