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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #165 on: November 22, 2024, 05:52:42 pm »
OS/2 icons are a lot of work.  That is why I prefer making and using PNGs. The icon editor is limited and as a result makes working with it tedious.  You really need 4 icons for the 4 sizes sizes used by the system.   If one uses one large icon and lets the the workplace shell resize, it is a hit and miss as to what you get, especially when using the smaller sizes.

I usually make four separate icons in windows using the free Greenfish Icons Editor Pro.  In fact, I make most of my PNGs using this editor, version 4.2.  This is a powerful icon editor.  It is a shame one of the few things it can't do is read OS/2 icons.

I make 4 PNG icon sizes
40x40
32x32
20x20
16x16

Usually you can resize 40x40 to 32x32 with a lot of touchup work.

I have found on the smaller sizes, 20x20 and 16x16, one cannot use the whole 40x40 icon. Thus I figure what I can leave out or reduce content to where people still know what the icon is from using the larger size icons.

I then boot to ArcaOS, and open the icon editor.  I search for an OS/2 icon that has the color options I need along with the 4 sizes.  I then use pmview to copy each png to the correct icon size on the icon I am using.  Do a lot of touchup work and then rename and the new icon I modified from the original.  I then test the large icon and small icons to see if it is readable.

As you can see, it is a lot of work creating a descent OS/2 icon.

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #166 on: November 24, 2024, 11:54:39 pm »
Hi,

I too create my icon as png and then use PMVIEW PRO to convert it into ICO (2.1) - I generate ICO into 48x48 size
ICO always has poor quality and not an expert into design and high resolution quality like David is.

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #167 on: November 25, 2024, 03:44:16 am »
I think possibly at one time IBM planned on supporting 60x60 size. The reason I say that is I have found a few icons in the past that included this size.

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #168 on: November 30, 2024, 06:01:03 am »
This is a two color folder - orange and yellow

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #169 on: December 02, 2024, 12:48:10 am »
Hi David, I sent you an os2world private message.
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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #170 on: December 09, 2024, 11:30:22 pm »
A new folder icon theme called GreenAgain.

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #171 on: December 16, 2024, 08:11:03 pm »
Red Glass folder theme with the grey system folder icons.

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #172 on: June 14, 2025, 06:31:46 am »
New folder scheme with other icons used from various other themes. Calling this Hodgepodge2.


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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #173 on: September 25, 2025, 10:24:18 pm »
Martin, tried to upload a new theme. It would not let me. I think it believes the upload is too big. However, the new package is smaller than some I have perviously uploaded.

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #174 on: September 26, 2025, 02:42:38 am »
Hello, is it giving some error message?
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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #175 on: September 27, 2025, 07:03:25 am »
Martin here is the error message

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #176 on: September 27, 2025, 05:21:47 pm »
Hello David

How big it is the file?
Can you send me over the file to martiniturbide -at- gmail.com  (maybe with dropbox or something) to see if I can upload it from my side?

I replicated the issue. Now I have to see what is going on.

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #177 on: October 01, 2025, 04:04:28 pm »
Hello David

Please give it a try again.

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #178 on: October 01, 2025, 09:17:53 pm »
A new two color theme called whitelightblue

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Re: Bigicons
« Reply #179 on: October 23, 2025, 08:01:32 pm »
Using the same light blue color, made another bigicons folder scheme