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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Supunqw" data-source="post: 8608264" data-attributes="member: 225222">How to Create Custom Icons                                                                   This is a little tutorial that will show you how to create custom icons, I like using it for movie files so it shows the cover of the movie instead of whatever it will open with (like windows media player, quicktime, etc.)ex. <img src="http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8575/moviesu.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Obviously not all the icons are customized, I just haven't gotten around to all of them yet. But you get the picture from the ones that are =].There really is only one thing you will need, a freeware program called pixel toolbox. You can google this and download it easily, otherwise i uploaded the set-up to rs: <a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/263511722/Setup.exe" target="_blank">http://rapidshare.com/files/263511722/Setup.exe</a>The way I do it may not be the easiest way, but as with anything out there a better and easier way will always exist, this is simply the way I do it. It is somewhat a pain in the ass, but it still only takes a few minutes.Find the image you want, for my examples I am using movie covers for movie files, but it can be anything you want. Once you get the image, chances are you will have to resize it. The icon will work best if it's perfectly square, otherwise there will be white stuff where more icon image could be.Open the image with paint, and play around with the image to resize it and get it as close to a perfect square as you can, and once you save the file once it has been edited, open up pixel toolbox and check the windows icon box. You can play with the settings, they are just colors and pixel width, personally I always go with 64x64 and the color option farthest to the right that you can select.<img src="http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/9492/pixeltoolbox.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Once you have your options selected, go up in the upper right corner and click start. This will open up the actual area where you will make the icon. There are a lot of fun things to play around with, but to my knowledge no way to resize the image (if anyone knows how, please tell me). This is why I resize it in paint to make it a square image, so it will fit properly. Click on import to get the image that you want in it, and it will pop up in the box. You can move it around if you didnt get it perfectly square to fit better, and even color in the white to make it different colors if it would fit better. At this point, it looks like shit...very pixely, not detailed, but you have to remember that it is an icon, and the icon will not be that zoomed in. It will look a lot smoother once it's actually applied. Anyway, this is where you should be at at this point...<img src="http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1139/pixeltoolbox2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />From here, very easy, just click save, choose name and where you want to save it, it automatically saves it as a .ico, don't change that.Now that you have the icon image, we can change your file. I make a shortcut of the video, but this is only because I have my computer set to always show the file type extension, and with movies I like having it look cleaner by simply having the name of the movie, and using shortcuts allow you to take off the .avi or .mov or whatever. With the regular file, right click it and go to properties. Then go to the icon tab, and check the "Change the icon for this file only" box, then click on change icon. From here, go to browse and then to wherever you saved your .ico and set it as that. If you wish to set all .avi or whatever other file type as a certain icon, leave the "Change the icon for this file only" box unchecked. After this do all the ok things and it will be saved.Using a shortcut is a bit different, but not a whole lot. Right-click the short cut and go to properties, and click on the "Change icon" button. From here, it's the same as the above.If anyone has questions or something to add to make it easier, feel free to ask or help out more =].</blockquote>

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