Ultimate Predator Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 You know the basic open folder icon? I'm looking for a variation of different colours of them. From here I got the XP Folders, which had some cool software ones, but for the desktop, they don't look polished. There are some brilliant ones in XP iCandy, but only Green, Blue, and Grey. I'm in need of Grey, Green, Purple, and Pink, and more, if you know. Many thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Yes, a pink folder icon! I know exactly what I am gonna store in there! :happybday: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted January 30, 2007 Author Share Posted January 30, 2007 Lol. though seriously, any help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Don't know where to find such icons. Though, I guess you might be able todo it yourself, with some software, I guess you could extract the .ico maybe, and then open them in an icon editor, copy the image to some image editing software, convert it to greyscale, then apply some color tint and tint it to green, red, pink or whatever, and copy the image back to the icon editor and save it. Icons of folders with different colors is a good idea. I think it would be good if they came with the operating system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 This will let you convert ICOs to PNGs and vice versa. Then use Photoshop or other program to change the Hue/Saturation to make it pink :happybday: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 First you need to extract it from shell32.dll though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 How do I do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 With some kind of icon tool or perhaps maybe a resource hacker software. Think Microangelo Librarian can do that. I've used it like 5 years ago or so. :happybday: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 Its a shame that its all so complicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Yeah, because Windows has tons of different icons, and they don't want put them all in separate .ico files, so they put them all together inside a .dll file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 Yeah. I'll give it a go, could make some cool custom made icons with Paint.NET v3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 This will let you convert ICOs to PNGs and vice versa. Then use Photoshop or other program to change the Hue/Saturation to make it pink Wow, I didn't realise that was online. As I have Paint.NET, I'll get that extractor, and I'm done. EDIT: Are there any freeware versions of Microangelo Librarian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 EDIT: Are there any freeware versions of Microangelo Librarian? I don't know, I have only used it briefly, and it was several years ago. I think not. I think there is only a trial version available. There might be other software which can extract icons though. Did a brief search, and found XN Resource Editor, its a so called "resource editor", it can look up stuff in .dll files, and show icons, hopefully it can extract too, but don't know, since I never tried it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted February 1, 2007 Administrator Share Posted February 1, 2007 Yeah, XN can extract and much more. :happybday: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 Awesome. Is that what you use Tarun? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 First you need to extract it from shell32.dll though. Where do I find this? EDIT: Found, how do I extract the icon I want? EDIT: Its got a black or white background.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 First you need to extract it from shell32.dll though. Where do I find this? EDIT: Found, how do I extract the icon I want? EDIT: Its got a black or white background.... Its in %WINDIR% under system32. On most systems, that is in C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll You open the shell32.dll file with XN, then you choose extract or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 I know. But I can't edit and convert, cos they stay with a white/black background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Well, there must be a way to put back some transparent background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted February 3, 2007 Author Share Posted February 3, 2007 I can't see how.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangix Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 heh hem. http://icolorfolder.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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