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I have done a number of custom icons in the past few weeks and months, so I figured – why not dump them all into a category so you can pick them up one by one? Hence, the reason for the brand new (and reeking of awesomeness) custom icon category:
http://www.mitchelaneous.com/category/desktop/free-icons/
Browse through all the past icons, and if you have any requests – be sure to let me know! More will be coming soon too, so look forward to seeing some updates there.
Yes, I am still playing Mega Man 9. No, I still haven’t beaten it yet. Since it is still on my mind though, I thought I would finish off the series of icons I’ve done over the past few days with a tribute to the blue bomber. You have seen my other desktop icons for all the bosses in the game, but…
Saving the best for last, check out these three special Mega Man icons!
+ Download the the Regular Mega Man Icon! (.zip)
+ Download the two 8-bit Mega Man Icons! (.zip)
The icons are compatible with the following sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16. It is also in both .ico and .png format. Feel free to use, share and more. Just wanted to give one more present to the awesome Mega Man fan-base out there (which I too am a member of).
Download the Desktop Icons for the other Mega Man 9 Villains!
Plug Man is just a little silly. Seems like he would be one of the rejected Mega Man villains more so than a real one. Before turning bad, he was a line inspection robot at a television set factory. Oh did I mention he is pink? Don’t tell him that though, turns out he sees everything as a black and white I Love Lucy episode… of destruction!
+ Download the Plug Man Desktop Icon! (.zip)
The icon is compatible with the following sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16. It is also in both .ico and .png format. Enjoy, and let me know if you like ‘em or not. More robot masters from Mega Man 9 to come? Nope, they have all now been done!
Download the Desktop Icons for the other Mega Man 9 Villains!
Come on, you know Splash Woman is hot. The first female robot master for a Mega Man game, Splash Woman comes from a background of rescuing those involved in accidents at sea. Now, she is more of the Little Mermaid… of doom!
+ Download the Splash Woman Desktop Icon! (.zip)
The icon is compatible with the following sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16. It is also in both .ico and .png format. Enjoy, and let me know if you like ‘em or not. More robot masters from Mega Man 9 to come? We will see…
Download the Desktop Icons for the other Mega Man 9 Villains!
I have been a big fan of The Legend of Zelda series of video games for a long time, but could not for the life of me find and nice desktop icon of the Triforce. For those of you who have no clue what I am talking about, Wikipedia comes to the rescue:
The Triforce consists of three distinct entities represented by the three smaller triangles, each of which is also referred to as a Triforce when considered individually. The triforce has also been known to exist somewhere in the southern hemisphere of the globe, in human form. It is speculated that the identity of the triforce share the initials DJC however these speculations have never been truly verified. The triangles are referred to as the Triforce of Power, the Triforce of Wisdom, and the Triforce of Courage.
Getting back to the topic at hand, I decided to create my own Triforce icon.
Download the Triforce Desktop Icon (.ico and .png)!
The icon comes in both png and ico formats, and the following sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16. Hope you enjoy! (Just in case there are any other Zelda fans out there reading)
If I had to pick my top ten gaming franchises, Metroid would have to be only second to the Legend of Zelda series for me. So, in tribute to that though (and the fact I wanted to play with creating some more desktop icons) here are both the classic Samus look (suited samus) and Zero Suit Samus icons for your enjoyment.
This time around I included both .png and .ico files (due to your suggestions last time around.) Feel free to use them as you wish. All that I ask is you subscribe to the feed!
The two icons are compatible with the following sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16. Enjoy, and let me know if you like ‘em or not. Might make a few more.
Playing around with creating desktop icons for my Windows Vista PC, I was using this picture as a kind of test to see what I could do. Looked good to me (come on, it is Maria after all), so I thought I would release it out to all of you. Can you tell which icon stands out more?
It is in the .ico format, and supports the following sizes:
256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16
Download the Maria Kanellis Desktop Icon (.zip)
Download it and feel free to do whatever you want with it. If you pass it around, just make sure you give me a link back, or better yet just subscribe to my RSS feed and we will call it even.
I had an idea to customize a few of my default Vista icons, but had no way of doing so. I had the icon files, but no way to edit them. So after doing some browsing around I did come up with a solution to my icon editing woes.
First Step? Get Paint.NET!
First step was to pickup Paint.NET. This is an awesome free image editor with all the bells and whistles of your hundred-dollar programs.
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Grab the Paint.NET ICO Plugin
Well worth having, just as a backup image editor if nothing else. Since Paint.net does not have .ico support built in by default, I picked up this page:
http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1152
To use it, all you need to do is unzip and then put it in the “FileTypes” folder in the Paint.NET directory.
Startup Paint.NET and try dragging and dropping an .ico icon onto the canvas. Thanks to this neat plugin, it will open just as any other image would open. With saving as an .ico, I had a few errors at times but doing it again or changing the name of the file seems to have helped.
So there is a totally free way to edit and create custom desktop icons for your next design project or desktop redecoration.
How does that sound? Personally, I was more of a Ryu fan than a fan of Ken. Ken just never did anything for me. Then again, I think M. Bison could whoop up on both of them. My earliest childhood memories of Street Fighter actually have to do with me thinking the M. in M. Bison stood for Mitch. Why? Well my name is Mitch and I just thought it would be cool… what can I say? I was easily amused at that age. Oh yeah, here are some Street Fighter IV icons!
If you like these, be sure to check out the other video game based icons in Th3-ProphetMan’s collection. From GTA IV to Gears of War I am sure you’ll find a few more to enjoy.
Browsing around Deviant Art I found some of the best looking Super Mario icons I have seen in a long long time. With all the Super Smash Bros Brawl I’ve been playing in the past few weeks – looks like Nintendo is invading my desktop too.
Another awesome detail about these icons are they were all designed by hand by a fantastic Deviant Art artist, ph03nyX. Download them for yourself and make your own desktop look like the Mushroom Kingdom!
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
