How Do You Make Custom Windows Icons With Free Software?
This article will show you how to create custom Windows Icon files using Microsoft Paint and a free web based converter. Paint is bundled with Windows. Although commercial software like Adobe Photoshop has a lot more features, the humble Paint is good enough at making small images that we will convert into icon (.ico) files. Icons are usually 16×16 pixels for menu bars and 32×32 pixels for folder icons and shortcuts. Open Microsoft Paint, go to -Image/Attributes- and set your image size to one of those two resolutions, depending on which icon type you want to create. Those icons are pretty tiny, eh? Go to -View/Zoom/Custom- and set your zoom factor to the largest possible (800%) As you create your image, don’t forget to switch back and forth between this zoom factor and -Normal Size-, in order to ensure that your icon will look good when it is being used. Now get to work! The Pencil tool is the most useful, because it allows you to draw individual pixels. This is the best way to create
