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ADMIN NOTE: This plugin will not work in paint.net 4.0+. To get an updated version which will work, download TechnoRobbo's update in. Here is my icon and cursor format plug-in for Paint.NET Installation: Download IcoCur.Zip. Unzip the dll and put it in the 'FileTypes' folder in the Paint.NET directory. It will load and save.ico,.cur and.ani files (.ani as of July 29, 2006). When loading from an icon or cursor file that contains multiple images, you are given a prompt and allowed to choose which image to load. It always bugged me when there would be 3 or so images in an icon file and other image editors would just auto-load the low resoultion 8x8 one or something like that, so I added the feature to choose.

Although I've never seen any, I suppose there could be icons with 16-bit image data; there is support for this, albeit untested. Please let me know what you think.

Paint.NET saves ICO files with a. Paint.NET saving ICO files will allow you to use Paint.NET to create icons for. The original URL for this plugin doesn. Icon Plugin for Paint.NET - posted in Utilities: I use Paint.NET to create all of my icons (as png) and recently found this plugin which looks pretty cool: [Link]I. Paint.NET saves ICO files with a. Paint.NET saving ICO files will allow you to use Paint.NET to create icons for. The original URL for this plugin doesn.

The ability to open icons/cursors is a nice feature to have in PDN. One suggestion though, When I try to save an icon, it saves it as a 16/16 32bit. It would be nice if you had the option of what format to save an image as. Or, this one would be a bit more complex, an option to save an icon complete with multiple formats. I'm fairly new to PDN and.NET programming so I'm not sure if this is actually possible. Possibly either the ability to save multiple png/bmp etc. Files into one icon or, have the different formats all displayed on one image.

Again, I'm new to this so I may just be missing something. I was debating the option to allow saving with different resolutions and color modes. Actually, I guess I still am debating. I may decide to do it later since it would be nice to have both low and high resolution icons in the same.ico file, in fact this is sort of the convention for icon files. Fairly busy right now, but I'll see if I can get around to it in the future (don't expect it too soon). Just FYI, icon and cursors internally are basically multiple 'limited bitmaps'.

It sounded like when you said 'different formats' you were basically desiring different resolutions and color modes (i.e. Ability to export 8-bit icons). This can be done. Embedding any type of compressed image or other image format within an icon cannot be done. One last thing, you said. I really need to be able to make icons in arbitrary sizes. I really do need to be able to save icons that are 190x35 or any other arbitrary dimension.

I'll probably add in the ability to just save the icon with whatever resolution it has, as opposed to forcing a resize. I'll see if I can get this into the next version. (Does windows Vista render non-square icons in a non-square fashion? I saved a 190x35 icon in my old image editor, since it had support for this, and of course it just shows up as stretched to square in any windows explorer view, although programs like irfanview load it in as 190x35.

Anyway, just curious as to how the icon support in Vista is.). But pointer shadow doesn't work for anything except for the default ones I think that's because the system expects any 'shadow-like' effect to be contained within the alpha channel, since all the cursors currently save as 32-bit. With the multiple resolutions/sizes of the icon file. Would a mapped image work? I'm not 100% sure what you're asking here. Are you saying that if you had such an image in PDN, could my plugin recognize the different regions and save each of those images as 128x128, 64x64, 48x48. That's probably unlikely, but if you had each in a separate layer, with just transparent pixels around the images, then I might be able to add a feature to recognize when a layer contains an image that's smaller than the canvas size, or something like that.

Anyway, we'll see about that one, I was kind of planning to have the next version just have capabilities for saving different dimension/resoultion versions of the same image. Sort of hard to explain what I mean.

I'll see if I can get something out mid-May (a bit busy). Ok, I've released the next version. In this version you can save 8-bit and 32-bit icons and cursors. The cursor saving functionality is the same as the previous version, other than the addition of an allowed 8-bit mode. The icon saver now has the following options dialog: Many icon files contain multiple resolution and color depth versions of the same image, so if you are authoring this type of icon, you can design the image at whatever resolution you like and then choose the resolutions/color depths to save in the file just by checking the check boxes. PDN's resampling and quantizing (color depth changing) capabilites are utilized so that this is done in an automated fashion.

If you wish to author an icon file with multiple DIFFERENT images in one file you can do this too. For example, some icons have one image for the 32x32 item, and then a different (but often similarly themed) image for the 16x16 since a resize of the 32x32 to 16x16 may be too lossy.

To export different images in one file, design each image on a separate layer, with COMPLETELY transparent rows and columns to the left and below your layer's image. For example, if you're making an icon that will have a 32x32 image and a different 16x16 image in the same file, work with a 32x32 canvas and design the 32x32 image on one layer. Then, on a separate layer (clear it completely to start) design a 16x16 image in the upper left corner. Alternatively, design each image separately and save them as 32x32, 16x16, etc. PDN files and import them as layers into a new document, and then save them. You must work with a canvas size of 256x256 or smaller to save each layer separately (saving the 'Merged Image' does not have this restriction) and each layer should have dimensions that are multiples of 8. I love the plugin, but I've run into a small snag.

It doesn't seem to support 256.256 sized Icons in 32, 8, or 4 bit settings (Vista Supported). Any news on when this format will be added? There is a glitch with 255x255 icons that I was hoping to get around to fixing by the next version but 256x256 I thought worked ok. I've tested it with certain 256x256 icons and they load ok. Can you upload some of the icons that don't work on the web and send me a link to them? Then maybe I could see what's happening with them.

I have written many articles previously about Paint.NET which is one of the best free image editing programs on the web. Paint.NET come with a wide array of features, effects and you can add even more by writing custom ASP modules that you can deploy into the application. I had written a previous post on how to and this article showcases another plug-in for Paint.Net that allows you to edit and save ICO files. Paint.NET saving ICO files will allow you to use Paint.NET to create icons for your cursors, files, or even ico images for your websites or blogs if you want to do it manually. Here are the instructions on how to have Paint.NET save ICO files.

Download the from Evanolds.com, now the developer offers the Paint.NET plug-in as a direct.DLL download which can trigger a security warning. I also decided to repackage it as a ZIP file for those who want to download it from my blog instead you can download the here. Close Paint.NET. Extract and copy the IcoCur.dll file to your Paint.NET FileTypes folder.

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Example: D: Program Files Paint.NET FileTypes. Open Paint.Net. You will now see ICONS (.ico) as a list of FileTypes you can Open or Save As. What makes this plug-in even more unique is that it saves multiple file sizes of the ICO within the same file, so you can save a 16×16, 32×32, 64×64etc versions of the same ico file within the same file. When you edit an ICO file it will give you the choice to load one or more image sizes from within the.ico file: Update The original URL for this plugin doesn’t exist anymore, so I found it still posted as a ZIP file on this forum thread since I am not the author of this plugin, I don’t want to host the original file though I don’t want to see it lost either if this thread would be destroyed.

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I also confirmed that the IcoCur.dll works with Paint.NET 4.0.3 successfully so is compatible with 3.5 and 4.0 version of Paint.NET Summary As I continue to find more useful plugins, addons and other effects for the Paint.NET image editing software I will share them with my readers. I am currently going to be using this plug-in to help redo my ICO files for my Wanderer Thoughts Poetry blog.Dragon Blogger.