About Desktop

[TheKnight]

so, all those programs on my desktop (Photoshop, Silkroad online, Mozilla Firefox etc.) have different icon (Ps has the blue box, sro has the camel pic and so on). How can I make my own icon and place it on a program, that instead of PS blue box thing I could see something totaly self made or something, I need to use somekind of different file type and save to where?

Now just try to figure what i asked, and im not sure is the Artists corner right place for this, but since you do that desktop moding things here i thought it would be right place for it...

[Deadsolid]

Do you want Icons or a different desktop metaphor? You can get a dock like Mac's have here.

Or you can create your own desktop icons (64x64 pixels, i think) and save them as .ico files. Right click the shortcut on the desktop>shortcut tab>change icon.

[TheKnight]

I want to make my own icons, and I have tried to save some pictures I wanna use, but there is no option for ico. file

Edit:

Spoiler!

and take some icons from games, like these:

[Shomari]

http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/
Download the .ico format so you can open in Photoshop.

[Deadsolid]

Wow thanks!!! Ive always used Gimp for creating icon files.

Post from Zune BTW!!

[TheKnight]

Okey i downloaded the file but what then? open in Photoshop or save to somewhere?

[Deadsolid]

Program Files>Adobe>Photoshop>Plug-ins>File Formats

Stick it in thar!!!
(Don't put the text docs in, you don't need them.)

For some reason it won't show up as a file type, but if you type the extension it will save as a .ico file.

[TheKnight]

Won't work

[TheKnight]

I have messed around with my Ps pretty much, and I have no idea is it CS4 or CS3 anymore, since files are used to open with CS3 but when I launch Ps it says its CS4 -.-

[Deadsolid]

This is my file structure. I renamed it "ICO" but that didn't affect anything.

[TheKnight]

My file type isn't adobe Photoshop... its 8BI file

[Deadsolid]

Timeout are you on a Mac?

[TheKnight]

No, Windows 7

[Deadsolid]

You prolly dl'ed the wrong one.


http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/dl.ph ... f9-win.zip