How to Make Your Own Mouse Cursors
Most computer users want to customize their computer work environment. Making your own mouse cursor is one way to do that. If you're a musician, you may want your cursor to be a violin or a trumpet. Or perhaps you own a sports car and you'd like your cursor to be your favorite car. Whatever you want your cursor to be, you simply need to design the cursor and then put the cursor on your Windows operating system.
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Instructions
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Design your mouse cursor
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Get the Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Before you can design your cursor, you must get the Plug-in that enables you to save your graphic in the cursor format (.cur). Go to this page:
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Download the Cursor.8bi file. Look for this file and then click on the icon.
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Save the file in Adobe Photoshop by saving it in this directory:
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Open Adobe Photoshop. Click the Windows icon in the lower left of your screen, then select: Programs > Adobe > Adobe Photoshop CS2
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Make a new cursor. In Photoshop, click: File > New
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Size the image 32 x 32, as shown in the image. This is the standard size for cursors.
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Design the cursor by changing the colors. Select the white box in Photoshop, as shown in the image.
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Select the color you want by using your mouse to drag the circle shown in the image around the screen.
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Add the color you have selected to your image. Click the icon that looks like a paint bucket, then click within your blank image. Once you have clicked it, you'll see that your new cursor has changed color.
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Save the cursor. For the Filename, type in: newcursor.cur; for the format, select: CursorFormat.
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Save the icon, by clicking the Save button on the right side of the screen.
After you have clicked the Save button your cursor will be ready to add to Windows.
Access the Mouse Section on Windows
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In the lower left, click the Windows icon, then select Settings.
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Select Control Panel as shown in the image.
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Click on the Mouse icon.
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Click on the Pointers tab at the top of the panel.
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Look for the icon you designed, by clicking the Browse button located on the lower right section of the screen.
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Search for your cursor by scrolling down the list of cursors that are available.
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Click on your cursor. Once you have located your cursor in the list, click on it.
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Select the Open button on the right.
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Select the OK button at the bottom. Once you select this, you will see that your cursor will have changed to the one you designed.
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Tips & Warnings
Instead of designing your own cursor, consider getting one that has already been designed. There are many sites that offer free cursors. After you have acquired the new cursor, then you can change the colors and possibly the look and feel.
Many Microsoft documents refer to the cursor as a pointer.
