[DUG] Icon creation

[Alister Christie]

I made this video a few years ago
http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27 
<http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27>
making icons with GiMP.

However there are some quite good free standalone Icon editors.

Alister Christie
Computers for People
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On 9/11/2010 5:32 p.m., John Bird wrote:
> I have never read up on best practices/sizes etc for creating program 
> icons and BMP files for buttons/images etc.   Anyone got any good 
> references to read up further??
> q1 – I have figured how to create a BMP with transparent background 
> for bit buttons etc so the image is not square.  How do I create same 
> for program ICO files?   All my program icons in the task bar are 
> square as a result.
> q2 – Where does everyone else store their image files?  Really they 
> should be considered part of the project.   Only the IDE does not 
> store what the original filename was, so to find the image again (for 
> a bitbutton/program icon etc) I have to know what it was and 
> where.       I haven’t made up mind between storing them in the 
> project source folder or a separate images folder...
> Any Embarcadero programmers out there reading this – how about the IDE 
> stores the names of the files when it loads them, so it can be found 
> again.
> John
>
>
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