Free icon editor/converter?
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You'd think that with open source, there would be someone willing to write a program that just writes a high-color .ico file with alpha channel and submit it for free. But no... So, I have Paint Shop Pro ($55) and it doesn't write .ico files. Why not? I could use Adobe Photoshop for making icons, too, but it doesn't write .ico files either. Is this a conspiracy? I could buy something like Icon Forge ($40 -- why on earth is this only $15 cheaper than PSP???), but it does everything I don't really want it to do. I just want to take a .PNG file (created with GIMP, PSP, or Photoshop) and convert it to an .ico file. So -- what do you folks do if you want to create nice-looking icons (for buttons and the like) with 8-bit transparency? Cheers, Jake
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You'd think that with open source, there would be someone willing to write a program that just writes a high-color .ico file with alpha channel and submit it for free. But no... So, I have Paint Shop Pro ($55) and it doesn't write .ico files. Why not? I could use Adobe Photoshop for making icons, too, but it doesn't write .ico files either. Is this a conspiracy? I could buy something like Icon Forge ($40 -- why on earth is this only $15 cheaper than PSP???), but it does everything I don't really want it to do. I just want to take a .PNG file (created with GIMP, PSP, or Photoshop) and convert it to an .ico file. So -- what do you folks do if you want to create nice-looking icons (for buttons and the like) with 8-bit transparency? Cheers, Jake
Janovetz wrote: So -- what do you folks do if you want to create nice-looking icons (for buttons and the like) with 8-bit transparency? I'm rather fond of Microangelo[^] ($39.95 though)
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You'd think that with open source, there would be someone willing to write a program that just writes a high-color .ico file with alpha channel and submit it for free. But no... So, I have Paint Shop Pro ($55) and it doesn't write .ico files. Why not? I could use Adobe Photoshop for making icons, too, but it doesn't write .ico files either. Is this a conspiracy? I could buy something like Icon Forge ($40 -- why on earth is this only $15 cheaper than PSP???), but it does everything I don't really want it to do. I just want to take a .PNG file (created with GIMP, PSP, or Photoshop) and convert it to an .ico file. So -- what do you folks do if you want to create nice-looking icons (for buttons and the like) with 8-bit transparency? Cheers, Jake
I like SnIco Edit: http://www.snidesoft.com/products.html[^] It's free, but there seems to be a bug in 2.0 RC1 in that it inverts the alpha channel when importing PNGs :( - Mike