Custom dock icons for your MP4 player

maderin1 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:50 pm **Posts:** 20650

xaveri

nice work with the icons but i would say for creating icons quickly use the following program. your icon are nice but, with having only one image size of 128px do not have the multiple sizes needed by XP to display them at their best.

windows .ico files actually can consist of several images at various sizes and color depths (see screen shot below), this is so i can select the required icon depending on how your system is set.

http://icofx.xhost.ro/

this is an excellent dedicated icon maker.
it allows you to create full color XP icons with transparent backgrounds, and at the click of a button will create an icon with multiple image sizes and color depths, see image screen shot below:

it allows you to add effects, drop shadows, and the reflections i used in my icons were all done in mere seconds, photoshop is great and i use it for work, but it is overkill for this little job

xaveri · **Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:30 am

That is awesome!!

It been some time since I've done icons and I used to use Microangelo to make them in various sizes. Thx a lot for the information. I will get right on it and remake the icons.

xaveri · **Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:08 am

Thanks to maderin1's suggestion, I have changed the icons to support all the sizes for Windows and improved the general quality of them. I have edited my original post to include the correct link to the zip files with the new icons.

Just in case that you are lazy enough not to go up, here is the link

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/3c2dcccfa6_0.14MB

Buzzygirl · **Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:16 am

Hi Xaveri,

Nice work on these icons, thanks for posting this. I use Ubuntu Linux 99.9% of the time at home. I'll bet there's a way to create custom icons for Linux systems... I'll see if I can find out through the Ubuntu forums. Not sure if anyone else uses Linux on this forum, but if I find out a similar technique to create custom icons for Linux, I'll post it.

maderin1 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:50 pm **Posts:** 20650

Buzzygirl

when you find out how to do it in Linux can you post it here and when it is done i would like to add it into the main instructions if that is OK

if anyone knows of how to do this for the MAC then please post and i will add that also

thanks

joshd963 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:13 am

yes sir, sorry sir, and yes sir, they're AWESOME mate, * thumbs up*

Sorry for disturbing your mp4 talk!!

jo gobel · **Joined:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:39 am **Posts:** 782

does this work in Vista?

maderin1 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:50 pm **Posts:** 20650

jo gobel wrote:

does this work in Vista?

sorry, i only use XP so can not answer that but i see no reason why it should not work
the icons in the download are all vista compatible also

give it a try, you have nothing to lose and let us know

jo gobel · **Joined:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:39 am **Posts:** 782

i might just do that when i get home if i have time tonight.

i rarely ever use my XP PC anymore, i do all my computing on my Vista laptop.

joshd963 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:34 am

it works mighty fine on Vista

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