Can I change my icons so they are all huge?

[shippou]

http://i.imgur.com/WTHfRcv.jpg

Rather hard for me to explain my issue so please use this link to see it, some icons are small and some are huge. I want all of them to be huge, how do I do that? Also I could swear to god that the octopus was huge once and suddenly became small again for some reason >.>

 

[lehnerus2000]

Change View

In the top left corner of your picture, below the Search box, there are 3 icons.

The icon with the little arrow has a list of display options.

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[shippou]

It is already set on "very big pictures"

 

[carwiz]

Are these icons made as a result of running an icon extractor? How are you trying to use them?

Icons are a special type of file. An icon file (.ico) will normally contain "pages" and each page will contain a different sized icon. When an icon is displayed, the image shown will be the default first page. This is how various programs (and the OS) can show the same image in different sizes and is controlled by the program through its options. Some programs have only one icon page so there's no option to display different sizes.

If your icons have multiple pages, you can extract the individual pages as a separate icon if all you want is the largest one available. If you're trying to reorder the pages in the file so that the default is larger, this can get more involved. So we need to know more about how you want the icon to be used.

 

[shippou]

These are steam games shortcuts, upon downloading a game a shortcut will appear on your desktop.

 

[carwiz]

Right click the shortcut, select Properties then click on Change Icon and see if there's any choices.

 

[shippou]

http://puu.sh/bfPOb/07c7cd1685.jpg

Got browse, accept and cancel

 

[AddRAM]

Rightclick on your desktop, click view, click large icons.

 

[shippou]

Rightclick on your desktop, click view, click large icons.

That had no effect on the icons on the steam games folder I have posted on the first message

 

[carwiz]

The icon size has to exist before it can be used. Those that don't have a 256x256 icon page won't display the extra large icon. The best you can hope for is to choose a size that makes them relatively the same if that's what you're looking for.

 

[shippou]

Well can I somehow force them to be 256x256?

 

[carwiz]

No. If it's not there, there's nothing to force. You would have to create your own icon and use the Chance Icon panel to make the shortcut display it. The icon images are in a bit by bit format so you can't just magnify/resize them or they'll come out grossly pixelated.

 

[carwiz]

If you upload the icon files you want resized, I'll see if I can create a single icon for each file that you can use for the shortcuts. To create the icon files, use a utility like Nirsoft IconsExtract. When you point the utility to a program (.EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL,etc) it will extract the icons in that program.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

 

[shippou]

It seems like scribblenauts and the psp thing DOES have huge icons but from some reason they do not display

 

[carwiz]

This is sample of Astebreed in JPEG form. The smaller image is the largest in the icon file at 64x64. The larger image is the result of expanding it to 256x256. You can see that some detail is lost as my software has to invent pixels at a 4:1 ratio. If this is acceptable, I'll continue. Otherwise, I would need a better/larger image to use then convert that to an icon file.

 

[carwiz]

Here's a new one using a game grab. This image is 256x256.

 

[carwiz]

Found this one.

 

[lehnerus2000]

It is already set on "very big pictures"

Sorry.

I thought that you were saying they were too big and you wanted them to be smaller.

 

[shippou]

Found this one.

Perfect

How do I turn it into an icon?

 

[carwiz]

The Zip file below contains six icons. Extract the icons to a folder and they will be named for each game.

To change the icon for the shortcut, right click on it, select Properties then click on Change Icon. Click on Browse then navigate to the folder where you extracted the icons. They may show as an all black square but they are good. Just select by game name. Click on the icon then click OK. Click Apply, then click OK on the Properties window.

Do this for each game shortcut.

Forgot to add: Keep in mind that the icons MUST stay in what ever folder you use once you update the shortcut. If you move the icons, you must change the icon again in the shortcut to point to the new location.