How to make an icon in photoshop or use one of your photos

First you have to add a new plugin to your adobe Photoshop.
Download ICO (Windows Icon) Format, it is a free plugin from: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/
Unzip the file you downloaded.
Copy the "ICOFormat" and paste it into: program files/adobe/photoshop **/Plug-Ins/File Formats


- open adobe photoshop
- go to File --> new to draw someting new, or
go to File --> open ... to use one of your photos

- choose the Image Size 100 pixels for "width" and 100 pixels for "height".
- go to File --> save as...
- name it, and choose the format: ICO (Windows Icon) (*.ICO)
- save

now you should find the icon you created.
The icon is ready to be used as icon for your folders or as favicon.



** whatever the version of your Phshop is

How to make an icon in paint

If you want to change the icon of one of your folders you can do it very easy. Right clik on your folder --> properties --> Customize --> change icon - > there you have a list with many icons.

If you want to make your own icon, you can do it in "Paint":
- open paint
- go to Image
- go to attributes...
- make sure that by units are pixels selected
- write 100 Width and 100 Height
- clik OK

Now your paint window is very small. You can draw there whatever you want. The background will remain black, so don't waiste your time with other colours. I don't know how you make it coloured... yet.

When you are ready, go to: save as...
choose the 24-bit Bitmap [*.bmp, *.dib] by the "save as type"
File Name: test.ico
The name "test" is not important. But ".ico" is very important.
Save it.


Now when you want to change your icon choose the icon you created.