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. ![]() 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 havent used it yet but it looks pretty promising.Heres a direct download link. Here is the icon and cursor format plug-in for Paint.NET. The plugin is awesome, it supports editing and saving images to be used as cursors also. 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. 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.
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