Let's make some icons! Yay!
Addendum 8/22/2014: My boss pointed out to me today that http://icofx.ro/ might be a better tool to use. (Just get a free trial.) The reason is that the first tool doesn't do transparencies as good and transparent pixels may appear as black instead of transparent in some cases when they are done wrong. While I am talking about icons, it is possible to make an icon in a tool like Photoshop too by making a .bmp and then manually changing the extension to be .ico, but you don't want to do this. Icon files have four sizes:
- 64 x 64 pixels
- 32 x 32 pixels
- 24 x 24 pixels
- 16 x 16 pixels
...and, if you do the .bmp to .ico trick you are just accomodating one of the four sizes and the image will just scale poorly to fit the other three sizes when circumstance demands.
Addendum 10/6/2014: This is wrong. I think there are eight sizes.
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