.ico making programing
I am interested in making favicons for some of my sites. I remember reading about this back in the day and the only thing holding me back was having a program that can make .ico files. So are there any good free programs that can do this? I have adobe photoshop 6.0 if that helps.
The Webmistress posted this at 08:24 — 26th February 2003.
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As far as I know you need to have a specific program to let you save them as .ico
A search on Google found these ones
Busy posted this at 09:13 — 26th February 2003.
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irfanview can do it
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 10:38 — 26th February 2003.
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Question about IrfanView + icons-
Does it do transparency? The icons I tried all have white background areas and they show up white. Isn't the white supposed to be transparent? If that's not right, how should it be done?
Jack Michaelson posted this at 12:02 — 26th February 2003.
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I always use MicroAngelo. It comes with a HUGE library of icons for inspiration
and it supports transparancy.
The Webmistress posted this at 13:07 — 26th February 2003.
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But you have to pay for that one
Suzanne posted this at 16:08 — 26th February 2003.
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Iconographer as well. I know it is available for Mac.
Busy posted this at 20:01 — 26th February 2003.
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Abhishek, forgot how I did mine but may of saved a transparent gif to .ico irfanview has the .ico save as format (have only ever made 2 icons)
TOBART posted this at 23:27 — 26th February 2003.
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I ended up using IrfanView to make my favicon. I didn't feel like figuring out transparency so I just made square logos. If anyone figures out how though that would be greatly appreciated.
ROB posted this at 15:08 — 2nd March 2003.
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i believe you can use .gif's or .png's for favicons
The Webmistress posted this at 15:45 — 2nd March 2003.
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I don't think you can as it's IE that looks for a specific file which is favicon.ico
Wil posted this at 16:17 — 2nd March 2003.
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There is also a plugin for photoshop that allows you to save as .ico files.
ROB posted this at 15:15 — 3rd March 2003.
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use the link tag
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="./yourfavicon.png">works in mozilla browsers, not sure about ie. ie has a crappy implementation anyway, you only ever see the icon if you bookmark the page and half the time even that doesn't work (at least in ie5)...
TOBART posted this at 16:41 — 11th March 2003.
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ALRIGHT!!! Look what I came across the other day http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/
You can make .ico files in photoshop that support transparency! Fairly simple install, just download, copy and paste into you plugins folder, for some reason photoshop took like a day and 3 restarts until it recognized the new plug in.
Jimmy Changa posted this at 17:30 — 11th March 2003.
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I use a small program called "Bitmap to Icon" by QTam. It works nicely.
jammin posted this at 00:51 — 12th March 2003.
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... you CAN use paint, it think you have to save it as a .gif, then put favicon.ico in the filename bar, its that simple, if it doesnt work then try saving it as .bmp or something, but i know it works, i have done it before.
anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work they are supposed to be doing.
ROB posted this at 08:21 — 12th March 2003.
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jammin, that doesnt mean you created an icon - it means most likely that IE detected an invalid icon and attempted to determine the real type on it's own, and was successful.
jammin posted this at 23:05 — 12th March 2003.
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no, it actually makes .ico files, i know because i have done it before, i even use the .ico files for things other than favicons, paint can do it.
i tried it again and it doesnt work with .gif, but i tried it as a 24-bit bmp,and it worked, not sure if other .bmp would work, but the file info says it is an icon file.
try it for yourself if you dont believe me.
anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work they are supposed to be doing.
TOBART posted this at 04:14 — 13th March 2003.
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But paint doesn't support transparency. I guess I still can't get the transparency thing to work with Photoshop either, but I haven't put much time into trying.
Megan posted this at 14:10 — 13th March 2003.
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IME (and this was a long time ago but is probably still valid) it's pretty difficult to find a good icon making program for free - all the good ones cost money, and there aren't many alternatives. You'll probably have to go with what you've got.
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fifeclub posted this at 21:24 — 13th March 2003.
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I've used a few free programs and found the one I like was called GoldIcon. http://www.softpile.com/Desktop/Icons/Review_09013_index.html I haven't made an icon in a while but it's simple, free, and does transparency. Here's a simple "P" I made a while back.
http://www.pstvalumni.com/favicon.ico
But on the otherhand, now that somebody mentioned there's a photoshop plugin I can use I'm going to look into that a little more.
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