jodandawg 18 Posted June 15, 2013 I feel like a dumbass asking this but, how does one go about building shortcut icons. I want to make some icons for my SF games and possibly for this site. Thanks, Dan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spiritwalker69 15 Posted June 15, 2013 (edited) www.xiconeditor.com/ You can visit this site and upload any pic. The site will the allow you to crop it and convert it to an .ico You then save it to your pc as favicon.ico and can rename it to whatever you wish.ico Then drop it in the root folder of the app you want to use it as a shortcut for. Right click on the .exe the shortcut is for and create a desktop shortcut by selecting send to desktop. Now select your new shortcut and right click, select properties and you will see an option to change icon. Simply navigate to your new icon and select it. To actually produce your own icons you can use gimp to create a 64x64 pixel gif and convert it as above. Edited June 15, 2013 by Spiritwalker69 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wrench 9,872 Posted June 15, 2013 actually, irfanview does ico as well Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Erik 1,812 Posted June 15, 2013 A lot of higher end image editors do it. Axialis IconWorkshop is what I use when I have to only because I rarely have to do them and that does just fine. Search the web for .ico editors. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jodandawg 18 Posted June 16, 2013 OUTSTANDING INFO GUYS!!! I really appreciate the input. Hopefully I can come up with some good icons and shortcuts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
