I’m trying to make up a desktop theme to offer on my website and am having a devil of a time creating icons. I tried a couple icon editors/creators and I can’t get a color icon at 256 colors and at 16 colors, it’s impossible to get a range of colors useful to me. Is it possible to get a 256 color icon that doesn’t come out gray scaled when I try to use it? Any hints or tips on icon creation to share?
Erm… help?
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
Thanks for the idea, but I was trying to use a .gif file converted to .bmp then turn it into an icon. I tried loading the .bmp in WinPaint and saving it as an .ico, but it just greyscaled out again
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
Whenever I create an icon, I use IconForge. I got it from www.themeworld.com. It lets you make 16 or 256 color icons, and it allows you to animate them as well. It’s quite swell.
Upon reflection, I realize that I didn’t get it from ThemeWorld. Which means I haven’t the foggiest idea where the program came from! At any rate, it’s pretty good, so if you can find it, I’d recommend checking it out.
