Windows 7: Icons Resolution (.png, .ico).

Greetings,

I'd like to ask you for a help. Recently, I decided to customize my desktop look, but ran into a problem, kind of. I'll try to describe it below.

My goal was to replace some of the icons, which couldn't be displayed as 'Large Icons'. well, they displayed, but the image was smaller than the icon should have been and it didn't look really stylish.

I started to look online and found quite a lot nice replacements for my icons. However, most of them in .png - I installed a Photoshop plugin, so I'm now able to save 256x256 icon.png as icon.ico, but still something's wrong.



Once I set up the new nice icon, they look all perfect, while displayed as 'Large Icons', however, when I launch that software / application, its icon appears on the Windows bar / tray, but looks weird. Its edges aren't smooth and the resize looks kind of lame.

After a small research, I realized that some icons are a little bit different, let's call them all-in-one.ico and when those're opened in Photoshop, it detects that it's actually more of them somehow compressed in one single .ico, e.g. "all-in-one.ico contains 10 icons, please select one.." or something similar.

Thought about it, tell me, if my assumptions are wrong or correct. Windows apparently has some issues with resizing the icons automatically or it doesn't even bother to resize it and thus, when an icon is being made, it's released in 32x32, 64x64, 128x128 and 256x256 and somehow packed into one single icon and than it displays everywhere just fine, e.g. 'Large Icons', 'Hidden Icons (near clock)' and everywhere else.

the question here is than, how can I put all these icons together and create this all-in-one.ico and can I do it with CS5?

I'll appreciate some tips and suggestions on this and I thank you in advance for this help.

Best Regards,
SS-Totenkopf

Use axialis iconworkshop to integrate all the resolution of icons.

There is also a very good free icon editor here IcoFX - The Free Icon Editor

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,
SS-Totenkopf

You are welcome ssdevious. What did you use in the end?

Greetings again,

haven't got there yet, but will have a look at it this weekend. I'll let you know, in case I ran into some troubles. Help is very appreciated.

Best Regards,
SS-Totenkopf

OK. Look forward to hearing from you and good luck.