No fuss, no bother,
IrfanView quickly converts my .jpg images to .ico ; giving me visually meaningful desktop icons.
Recently I became interested in customising my desktop icons. Specifically (so far): shortcuts to webpages which otherwise would, by default, show the browser's icon. Regular readers may recall that Mr 17 helpfully photoshopped two creative commons images into one; and that it was only after much fuss I found an online converter [no longer available (2020)] to achieve an .ico file.
... and more (later)...
Apparently IrfanView is capable of tons more than this little thing I needed. It will come in handy:
- when I have time to learn about optimising (beyond cropping and resizing images with Paint to 500px or less before uploading)
- or for working with layers? (see if I can stretch beyond the gimp tutorials with which I made a couple of textures for SecondLife).
How simple?
For future reference, with IrfanView icons are a simple matter of:
File, Save Picture As, .ico [and Discovered 25/12/2020: Both ico options checked]
Thanks Irfan.
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| Will he earn a place on my toolbar? [Update 25/12/2020 - he did :-D] |
Part of my Wordpress→Blogger journey, this post copied 25/12/2020 in republication of my 17 June 2015 post at my experimental self-hosted Wordpress
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