Need good icon editor

r-tea · 30 April 2017, 00:54

I look for a good icon creation app for AmigaOS / MorphOS with full support of Newicons. I tried Iconian, but it's unusable under MorphOS

Do You know one?

Minuous · 30 April 2017, 05:34

Why not use the OS3.9 Icon Editor?

Then if you need for some reason to convert them to NewIcons, there is probably a utility to do that, not sure what the point would be though considering practically everything supports the OS3.5 format by now.

r-tea · 30 April 2017, 11:08

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Originally Posted by Minuous

Why not use the OS3.9 Icon Editor?

Don't have any classic OS for now.
Is the icon created under OS3.9 compatible with old 4-colour icons systems?AFAIK Newicons have an option to display even on systems with old icon.library. They can have alternative 4-col images built in.

Daedalus · 30 April 2017, 13:32

The GlowIcons system is very similar to NewIcons in that regard - it supports both old-format and GlowIcon images. The 3.9 icon editor lets you switch between the two, editing both as you like.

Given that MorphOS essentially uses PNG images for its icons, why not use something like PersonalPaint to create the imagery? It's far more powerful than most icon editors, and there are many tools for converting icon images to and from different formats.

r-tea · 10 June 2017, 21:26

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Originally Posted by Daedalus

Given that MorphOS essentially uses PNG images for its icons, why not use something like PersonalPaint to create the imagery? It's far more powerful than most icon editors,

Of course I use PPaint.

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Originally Posted by Daedalus

and there are many tools for converting icon images to and from different formats.

Can you point one, that you are sure it outputs a proper icon of NewIcon format with four images built in. Two for dual state of NewIcon standard, and another two for dual state of old 4-color format,
I have tried few tool from Aminet and the PPaint built in script, but all of them failed.

Daedalus · 13 June 2017, 00:26

Nope, I'm afraid I can't think of one off hand that does all 4. I was thinking mainly for MOS, not needing the old images too.

The OS 3.9 editor does GlowIcons and old icons, and supports the clipboard so you can copy your brushes from PPaint, but it's not automatic. Still, perfectly doable for a few icons.

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30 April 2017, 05:34	#2
Minuous Coder/webmaster/gamer Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Canberra/Australia Posts: 2,672	Why not use the OS3.9 Icon Editor? Then if you need for some reason to convert them to NewIcons, there is probably a utility to do that, not sure what the point would be though considering practically everything supports the OS3.5 format by now.

30 April 2017, 13:32	#4
Daedalus Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Dublin, then Glasgow Posts: 6,378	The GlowIcons system is very similar to NewIcons in that regard - it supports both old-format and GlowIcon images. The 3.9 icon editor lets you switch between the two, editing both as you like. Given that MorphOS essentially uses PNG images for its icons, why not use something like PersonalPaint to create the imagery? It's far more powerful than most icon editors, and there are many tools for converting icon images to and from different formats.

13 June 2017, 00:26	#6
Daedalus Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Dublin, then Glasgow Posts: 6,378	Nope, I'm afraid I can't think of one off hand that does all 4. I was thinking mainly for MOS, not needing the old images too. The OS 3.9 editor does GlowIcons and old icons, and supports the clipboard so you can copy your brushes from PPaint, but it's not automatic. Still, perfectly doable for a few icons.

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