I like using Xara, but I need to create some icons for our applications.
I thought it would be easy, but when you need to create a 16x16 icon, it seems that it can't be done.
I have had to revert to a bitmap editor, which is hard to use.
I like using Xara, but I need to create some icons for our applications.
I thought it would be easy, but when you need to create a 16x16 icon, it seems that it can't be done.
I have had to revert to a bitmap editor, which is hard to use.
You can save to png then use icofx and save to .ico ... is that what you want?
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I use icofx and it works very well. But keep in mind that 16 pixels is not a lot to work with.
But check out the favicon for this site It did an excellent job of reducing the fire department symbol.
Gary W. Priester
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Do you have any tips that help in creating something so small.
I think John's suggestion of downloading icofx is a good idea, and I found this page from 2006 with some handy hints and suggestions:
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...in-Xara-X-Tips
Visiting/participating in TalkGraphics since i/us (’97).
I was thinking more along the line of making it in XDP6 and then converting it to an icon in icifx. Is this not recommended?
That's what I meant in my post
JOHN -XaReg (FB) XaReg (DB - ignore prompt to register)
Windows 10 [Anniversary] pro Intel Pentium CPU G630 @ 2.70Ghz RAM: 4 GB; 64-bit x64
I make the icons for our software in XDP6 and then convert using Axialis (not free). Works find. AFAIK, it should work just as well using icofix.
Note that, as Gary said, 16x16 pixels isn't much to work with. I generally start with 48x48 or 32x32, then create a copy at 16x16 and export that as a png to import into the icon app.
I would recommend setting the screen units to Pixels, and make sure that your lines/objects line up on whole pixels. It will make for far less headaches when reducing the resulting bitmap/png/whatever.
-- Ben
Create box 160x160 pix
zoom in>create the image(use a minimum amount of colors/shapes)
zoom to 100% to see if it's great,if not,alter it
>Reduce the boxed image to 16x16 or 32x32 pix(whatever you want)
>export as gif
download xnView(freeware) http://www.xnview.com
open the gif in xnview>batch-convert save as .ico
done
Hans
Last edited by haakoo; 01 December 2010 at 07:56 PM. Reason: forgot a step
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