icon maker

free icon maker

[matt1966]

does anyone know where i can get a free icon maker?

[pendanticist]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld matt1966 [webmasterworld.com] :)

Googling free icon maker [google.com]s seems to yield some interesting results.

Pendanticist.

[insin]

You can make icons using GIMP and NetPBM - I did a minitutoral on it here:

[dti.barrysworld.net...]

[pendanticist]

insin, Url drops are a no-no.

TOS-#25 [webmasterworld.com]

Pendanticist.

[insin]

Pedanticist, noted - but there are some issues with posting the tutorial on the forum:

• The forum script truncates repeating exclamation marks, which are essential for the tutorial due to the way GIMP exports files as c headers.
  
• The link is to a tutorial - the intent is not "self promotional", but there to help people who want to make a favicon. (I created this tutorial because I found some tutorials out there about creating icons with netpbm, but there were none about how to make icons with transparent areas - I was looking through some man pages for netpbm when I noticed there was a flag for a mask file, which worked after some tinkering and learning about the PBM/PNM image formats)
  
• The example images are useful, especially for people who haven't used the GIMP before - they show what you're supposed to have done for the relevant steps better than the mental image produced by parsing the "beautiful" replacement prose I tried to write ;-)
  

An area for people to upload tutorials with images/correct formatting and a "no copyrights attached to this content" disclaimer would be useful if you are going to enforce a no links policy.

Could a mod please snip the link out for me? (I can't edit my own posts? :/)

Thanks.

PS: You can find the tutorial I linked to with a google search for "creating favicons with open source tools".

[nex2k]

You can create a Bitmap or PNG image and convert it to an icon with Icon Sushi.
[towofu.s5.xrea.com ]

[martinibuster]

Nice one!

A brilliant name, too.

[kmtell]

Where I work, we got a really decent icon editor/maker for $25. IconCool Icon editor is the name of it. If you can't find a good one for free, this is pretty cheap for what you get. I think you get a free 30 day trial.

[korkus2000]

Here is an earlier thread
[webmasterworld.com...]

[limbo]

Icon sushi is the one

I find this to be a great little package. Has support for many extensions including PSD and PNG. Nice.