Create an icon in Windows Vista
The Graphical User Interface (GUI) has introduced many
features in the operating system environment. This includes
the ability to display realistic pictures on the screen.
In GUI, Icons are the pictorial representation of some
functions. For example, in MS Word, you will see a small
picture of floppy disk near save command in the file
menu. The picture of floppy gives an idea of the functionality
of the command. Similarly, you have plenty of icons
in the system to represent something. Therefore, icons
are the pictorial representation of something. Computer users are crazy about free vista icons.
How to create icons?
There are some programs gives the ability to change
icons. For example, you can change the icon of start
menu programs, by right clicking and selecting Properties
of corresponding program, in the resulting menu. If
one can change the icons to desired ones one must be
able to create it. How to create icons? This is the
question many of users ask me.
Icon file
Basically, icon pictures are of small sizes and are
stored in different format other than the usual way
of storing large pictures. The icon file is stored usually
in file with ico extension. It was found necessary to
have tools for creating, modifying the icon files. The
tool which enables one to do this is termed as icon
editor. There are many icon editor tools are made available
in across the internet world. But, not all icon editors
create icons for the new Windows Vista operating system.
The creator of icon editor programs will release upgrades
to their programs. Only, in such cases, one will be
able to create icons for Windows Vista.
Icon editor program
The icon editor program ArtIcons Pro enables one to
create icons for Windows Vista. This award winning tool
is from Aha-Soft, and is of version 5.16. The new icon
editor tool, apart from creating, modifying and managing
various types of icon files and libraries, provides
a great deal of chance to work with Windows Vista icons,
which has got capabilities to display special effects
that is meant only for Windows Vista.
Windows Vista desktop icons
Vista style icons have special style effects, which brings
high level of sophistication to the world of imagery.
Aero styled icons are more realistic than ever before,
but, not really photorealistic. First, the icons in
Windows Vista are in different format, other than usual
icon files. Secondly, the maximum size of icon is now
extended to 256x256 pixels, which is advantageous for
high DPI displays. Moreover, these high resolution icons
enable one to attain high visual quality in the list
views with large icons. The Windows Vista make user
to feel comfortable with icons, especially with the
large icons.
UMPC – Mobile phone with Windows Vista
The ArtIcons Pro 5.16 will give the following benefits
to its users.
- Support for sophisticated new Windows Aero-styled
icons.
- Support for PNG format for compress high resolution
images without causing loss to the quality of icons.
- Saves Vista icons without compression, such that
it becomes compatible with XP.
- Importing and exporting of images are made easy.
- Import and Export ICO, CUR, BMP, JPG, PNG, PSD file
formats.
- Support for Multilanguages.
ArtIcons Pro 5.16 can run in Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/NT/2000/2003/Vista.
The software is available at around $40.00 (USD) for
single user. The Registered users are entitled to get
lifetime technical support and discounts on further
updates. One can get 30-day trial copy of the software
at http://www.aha-soft.com
IconLover 4.16
One can make use of IconLover 4.16, Icon Utilities
for managing icons creation, which is also from the
same icon creation software developer.
Icon creator tool
Icon creator tool is mainly useful to the software
developers than the ordinary other users. They need
to create plenty of icons to include in their programs.
However, ordinary users can also use these tools to
create their own icons, and can use them when a program
allows icon customization. However, majority of users
for icon creator tools are the software developers. |
