How Do You Create An Icon?

An icon is a graphic image that signifies an existing function on a computer's graphical user interface. To create an icon, you ought to have a special software programme that make is possible to create and save an image in ICO format. The size of an icon depends vastly on the application it is linked with. Some icons require a 16x16 pixel image while others may even need a 32x32 pixel image. The number of colours needed may be 16 or 256.

A shareware programme like Icon Easel is ideal for icon creation. You can download it from this web address: www.easyapps.com. To create an icon with Icon Easel, you have to simply open the programme and choose your icon size and colour preference from the drop down menu. The icon will automatically be created in the preferences you select. Please note that Internet Explorer has a condition that the icon must be of 16x16 pixels only. To design the icon, you need to look at the large window that contains all the squares, the icon canvas. Each square depicts a pixel and can be edited to customize your needs. You should utilise the tools on the left-hand side of your screen to edit these pixels and design the icon. If you have an image that wish to make an icon with,, you can do so either copy your image and paste it onto your icon canvas, or you can paste your image from a file.  Here is software to create an icon from JPG or JPEG file. www.entity.cc