# do it yourself Icons for xp, anyone know how?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 14, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-it-yourself-icons-for-xp-anyone-know-how/118896 "2002-07-14T06:55:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-it-yourself-icons-for-xp-anyone-know-how/118896/1 "2002-07-14T06:55:43Z")

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I want to change my recycle bin icons but cant find any premade ones that I like, so I made a couple in photoshop but I have no idea how to take a jpeg and make it into and icon.

anyone?

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**Author:** ![ForbiddenFruitsalad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ccd318/32.png) [@ForbiddenFruitsalad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForbiddenFruitsalad)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-it-yourself-icons-for-xp-anyone-know-how/118896/2 "2002-07-14T07:42:27Z")

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The [IconBuilder XP](http://www.iconfactory.com/iconbuilder.asp) Photoshop plugin (shareware) is pretty nice. I don’t use XP, but I used this the last time I needed to make an icon for one of my programs.

BTW, stay away from JPEG for things like this; the compression can degrade low-resolution images pretty badly. Use a format with lossless compression.

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**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-it-yourself-icons-for-xp-anyone-know-how/118896/3 "2002-07-14T09:22:54Z")

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thanks for the info, I will check that out.