Alpha Blended Icon Source

I am graphically challenged.

Can you point me to:
- Free sources of beautifully alpha blended icons.
- How to create them.

For example, I found this package:
http://www.devcomponents.com/iconpack/

How do you make these?

Anon
Monday, August 30, 2004

Look, these are made by pros. You are probably not a graphician to do this. Your question is something like "how Ferrari makes those cool engines, how can I do the same?".

the blank anon poster
Monday, August 30, 2004

. . . or, perhaps, an answer like:

http://www.iconconstructor.com
Seems to do a "good enough" job from any photo source.

Anon
Monday, August 30, 2004

What a stupid icon software. It's a shame what sw developers spend their time on.

the blank anon poster
Monday, August 30, 2004

Do a google for "Create XP Icons" and one of the top hits should be the official article from Microsoft that walks you through step-by-step. It was written by the peoploe who did the actual XP icons, and they share their tools and techniques.

  --Josh

JWA
Monday, August 30, 2004

http://www.microangelo.us/

This software has been pretty good in the past. I haven't tried Creation, though, but judging from their previous apps it might be worth checking out. (I might check it out myself soon.)

Adam Vandenberg
Monday, August 30, 2004

Josh/Adam,
Thank you for not being asses.

Anon
Monday, August 30, 2004

One non-ass post do not mean that they are not.

Monday, August 30, 2004

The freeware program IconEdit32 ( http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,4016,00.asp ) was a great little tool for making icons for Win98. I don't know if the icon format has changed for WinXP. But it's worth a try.

DaveF
Monday, August 30, 2004

Look like IconEdit is going to cost me $5.97 - not a lot, but hardly freeware, more like subscriberware.

trollop
Monday, August 30, 2004

Anon,

google how to use google
then google alpha blend icon editor
then google improve iq or work ethic

hee haw
Monday, August 30, 2004

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons.asp

Gary van der Merwe
Tuesday, August 31, 2004

hee haw: google 'help me i'm a sputid wuckfit' and then follow the 'did you mean . . .' link.

nona
Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Skip step 1 as you seem to know how to drive already.
Step 2 above leads to at least one free alpha blended icon editor. Try it.
Step 3 iterates. Try poltroon.

hee haw
Tuesday, August 31, 2004

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