Portable file icons

[Regmos]

I wanted to merge them but couldn't find any software that batch does that...

Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.25 does that (File > Batch Convert Files...). Don't let the Pro confuse you, it's completely free.

IcoFX Portable does it as well. Tutorial

[Enternal]

@ Regmos
Ah not that. I meant combining the 16x16 with the 32x32 icons into 1 icon file. Converting from PNG to icon was easy since I used XnConvert.
@ Marco
Great haha. You made me feel even worse Getting those 80 icons took a while. Heh.

[Regmos]

Ah not that. I meant combining the 16x16 with the 32x32 icons into 1 icon file....

Just load the 32's in Greenfish, and batch create icons containing 32x32 and 16x16.

[Enternal]

@Regmos
Ah! You're right! Greenfish is awesome! Thank you!

As a result, I finished batch converting the icons from FatCow pngs. However I still kept the 24x24 icon separate from the combination 16x16 & 32x32. The reason is if you decide to use the icons for your toolbar button, if the icon contains all 16x16 & 24x24 & 32x32, XYplorer for some reason decide to use the 32x32 and scale it down to 24x24 instead of simply using 24x24. That leads to:

Don, could you change it that XYplorer will only scale things around if 24x24 is not found in an icon file? It's an odd behavior for what it's doing now even though 24x24 exists in the file.

[TheQwerty]

Ah! You're right! Greenfish is awesome! Thank you!

As a result, I finished batch converting the icons from FatCow pngs.

Just to clarify this generated an icon with only the 32x32 image (resizing to 16x16 as desired), right?

[admin]

Don, could you change it that XYplorer will only scale things around if 24x24 is not found in an icon file? It's an odd behavior for what it's doing now even though 24x24 exists in the file.

Maybe, not easy.

[Filehero]

Hi,

I've somewhat got lost about the is's and will be's.

Are you talking about creating new icons not yet posted in this thread, or is it "just" about making known stuff even better?

Btw, we need more threads like this sort of giving a real-world example of the butterfly effect (...is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state...).


Cheers,
Filehero

[Enternal]

Ah! You're right! Greenfish is awesome! Thank you!

As a result, I finished batch converting the icons from FatCow pngs.

Just to clarify this generated an icon with only the 32x32 image (resizing to 16x16 as desired), right?

You only needed to add the 32x32 pngs and then tell it to generate the icon file with both 32x32 and 16x16 icons at 32bit color. Greenfish will then generate the icon file with both 16x16 and 32x32. Pretty neat!

Greenfish.png (32.25 KiB) Viewed 3324 times

@admin
Ah. So it's not an easy thing to work with... well I think we can continue to use the 24x24 icons separately for user buttons.

[Marco]

Ah not that. I meant combining the 16x16 with the 32x32 icons into 1 icon file....

Just load the 32's in Greenfish, and batch create icons containing 32x32 and 16x16.

But 16x16s are not a simple rescale, they have proper hinting for lower resolution. That's why 32x and 16x should be merged.

[FeatureCreep]

Ah not that. I meant combining the 16x16 with the 32x32 icons into 1 icon file....

Just load the 32's in Greenfish, and batch create icons containing 32x32 and 16x16.

But 16x16s are not a simple rescale, they have proper hinting for lower resolution. That's why 32x and 16x should be merged.

I agree Marco. Simply resizing larger images to 16x16 often results in indistinct mush. I use the tree and details view the most so this is the most important size for me.

I usually have to redraw or substantially tweak the 16x16 size (in Photoshop or GIMP). And then merge separate PNG files with something like Icon Sushi.
http://www.towofu.net/soft/e-aicon.php

This is fine when doing one or two icons but (for bigger jobs) Icon Sushi and IcoFX don't have a batch mode that would take a folder containing something like

icon1_16.png
icon1_32.png
icon1_48.png
icon2_16.png
icon2_32.png
icon2_48.png

and merge PNGs with common filename elements (excluding suffix) and output

icon1.ico
icon2.ico

One (free) app that could do this is ImageMagick
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

but it would require some scripting (not my forte).

[Enternal]

Yes I agree. After I posted that, I started comparing the native 16x16 with the rescaled and it's quite poor. Not only that, but somehow the 32x32 does not look as good as the native 32x32 and I don't quite know why. Need another method.

EDIT: Lol. Well we could do my method... manually downloading and renaming each to match the original Of course that would take forever.

[Marco]

Done

Special thanks to RealWorld Icon Editor and the script provided by Vlasta on the second-to-last post on this thread for turning an endless task into a matter of 20 seconds (btw, the guy who opened that thread tested the solution on the very FatCow icon set...).
And credits to FatCow for their über-cool icon set!

Each icon contains a 16x16 and a 32x32 image. I deliberately didn't add a 24x24 because it wouldn't look good (hinting, again).

Download available here

[admin]

Thanks a lot! Those icons are really great.

[admin]

Each icon contains a 16x16 and a 32x32 image. I deliberately didn't add a 24x24 because it wouldn't look good (hinting, again).

Wow, looks like I just managed to make 24x24 look good. Sorry...

[Marco]

Where exactly does XY use/show 24pix icons?