Which programme do you use to create pretty icons? Except Photoshop, of course. I know only the IcoFX, but it's not perfect. I'd like to have many effects and brushes.
IcoFX is a program for making Desktop Icons. It's not really too good for anything else. If those ARE the type of icons you're looking to make, there's not really too many other options. IcoFX is the best for designing your own icons or converting PNGs to ICOs. There's a pay program called Icon Constructor that makes the process even easier and will give you frames and templates so you can turn any image into a decent icon. But there's not as much artistic freedom as you have with IcoFX. Again, those two programs are ONLY for Desktop Icons.
For Icons like the type uploaded to Fanpop, really any graphics program will do. Even Paint will allow you to add text and borders to an image. Just make sure you do your resizing in a program like Irfanview - and whenever you work with Paint, make sure to save as a BMP and THEN convert the file to PNG in a program like Irfanview.
If you want a fancier program, Photoshop is really your best bet. However, some free alternatives are Pixia and the aforementioned Gimp. Both are very capable graphics programs, but they do require some knowledge of graphics programs to operate them.
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Thanks. Yes, I saw that there is not too much fantasy in IcoFX. Of course I'd like to add icons to fanpop, so I will try some of these programs, and then I choose which I can use the best.
It depends on what you're trying to do with it. It's SUPER easy to make icons out of images with IcoFX, but you need to have some images to turn into icons. It's pretty tricky to make your own icons from scratch, regardless of what program you use.
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