Having Trouble With Icon

[Lanc1988]

I made an icon for my program a long time ago and was able to set it as the window icon and shortcut icon for the program. Anyway, yesterday I tried to make a better one in photoshop but apparently I must be saving it wrong or something because vb.net is not letting me set it as the icon, the OK button is grayed out when I browse to the new icon.

 

I have attached the photoshop file for the icon:

Icon.psd

[PlausiblyDamp]

You will need to convert the image to a .ico file, windows doesn't support using a .psd file as an icon.

[Lanc1988]

I tried to do that but I might have done it the wrong way. In photoshop I go to File -> Save As but under File Type they dont have .ico so I choose .bmp but in the File Name box I type Icon.ico and it appears that it works but apparently something isn't working right.

[PlausiblyDamp]

A .bmp isn't an icon file and giving it a .ico extension isn't enough. You will to convert the .bmp to a valid .ico file.

 

http://www.coolutils.com/Online-Image-Converter.php might do the trick.

[Lanc1988]

it is working but for some reason it is also resizing the icon to 16x16.. i would like the icon to be atleast 32x32.. any idea why it is doing this?

[Lanc1988]

nevermind.. after you posted that website it made me think to search for photoshop and icons and i found a plugin for photoshop to save as an Icon.

 

thanks.