ICON and tiff files

[RON DELANEY]

I recently installed windows xp and by the way it is
great...I have a disk that has several icons and they
appear to be in .tiff format......I want to use these as
icons...But unable to do that since in .tiff format. How
can I change the type from .tiff to icon type so they can
be used.

Appreciate any help anyone can give me.

Thank you

 

[Chris Lanier]

It's not really a one step process

Creating Windows XP Icons
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons.asp

 

[Danin]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:04:05 -0700, "RON DELANEY" wrote...
| How can I change the type from .tiff to icon type so they can
| be used.

Easiest to use one of the icon editors out there to convert to .ico
format (e.g., Iconforge - http://www.cursorarts.com/ handles XP type
icons).





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[Alex Nichol]

I recently installed windows xp and by the way it is
great...I have a disk that has several icons and they
appear to be in .tiff format......I want to use these as
icons...But unable to do that since in .tiff format. How
can I change the type from .tiff to icon type so they can
be used.

Use the free Irfan View (www.irfanview.com, which is great viewer for
almost any type, and which also will convert, simply by loading and
doing a Save As, changing the type (To .bmp ). While about it start
with an Image - resize to a suitable number of pixels. Standard for an
icon is 32, but if your Display appearance is set differently, choose
that size for the image

 

[Richard Mason]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, RON DELANEY wrote in

I recently installed windows xp and by the way it is great...I have a
disk that has several icons and they appear to be in .tiff
format......I want to use these as icons...

A Windows icon has a very specific image format and there is no such
thing as a tif format Windows icon or a bmp format Windows icon etc.

Icons are stored in an ico file (and also other types of file) and an
ico file can contain any number of icons with different images, sizes,
or number of colors (bitdepth) and be Win98/ME icons and/or WinXP icons.

A Win98/ME icon will display in WinXP exactly as intended.
A WinXP icon will display in Win98/ME but not exactly as intended.

But unable to do that since in .tiff format. How can I change the type
from .tiff to icon type so they can be used.

Buy an icon editor like, say, IconWorkshop and create real icons from
your tif. It is often suggested that one convert some other format to a
..bmp file and then change the file extension to .ico - but it's still a
bmp and not an icon. Windows _will_ display the pseudo icon but not
correctly.