How to Create a Free Icon
Icons are little images representing folders on your computer's desktop or chat images. Personalizing icons is a really simple thing to do and will set your desktop apart from others, illustrating the unique and talented individual you are.
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Draw Your Own
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Drawing is an art many people have mastered. If you're one of the gifted capable of putting pencil to paper and creating an impressive picture, you might want to venture over to Real World Graphics. RW Graphics offers an on-line icon drawing board allowing you to create, color and download your icon. It also allows for editing the icon. It's very user-friendly, which makes it worth the time and effort for those of us who aren't artistically blessed.
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If you're big on digital photography some of your favorite photos can be utilized as icons. Merely download the photos to your computer and highlight the icon you wish to change. To do so, open the desktop icon on a Windows XP-based computer. Look for the General tab and open it. You'll see a display tab listing system icons. Clicking this will allow you to browse your computer files. Look at your jpegs (pictures), and select one. Your photo can now be your icon. On a Mac, merely highlight the folder you want to personalize. Click the apple and click Get Info. In the upper right portion of the box, you'll see the folder displayed along with the name of the folder. Just drag and drop any image you want over the folder, and this will be the icon for that folder.
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Icon Workshop is a great software item to help you create your own personal icons, and it is available for both Windows and Mac. This is a professional tool compatible with professional industry standards. While it is not a perpetually free way of creating icons, it does offer a free 30-day trial period with which you can compare its ability with something like the aforementioned Real World Graphics. All it takes is a dash of talent and little bit of old fashioned patience before your friends are gazing at your screen and saying, "Oh wow! How did you do that?"
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