Getting started
Greenfish Icon Editor was designed to be an easy-to-use, yet professional icon and cursor editor.
Therefore, it is in many ways different from other icon editors and is somewhat like a photo editor.
It is important to keep in mind these things when working with Greenfish Icon Editor Pro:
- Image formats have a dynamic color depth.
This is an innovative, new feature of this program,
which makes dealing with image formats easier. It has many advantages, for instance, in other programs,
if you create a 24-bit image format, but only use 150 colors drawing it, the image will occupy
three times more place than it should. Greenfish Icon Editor will automatically detect the count of
colors used, and update the color depth accordingly. This means that, you do not have to
convert an indexed image format to higher color depth
before blurring it/adding a shadow/etc. In addition, you can draw on 24-bit images using a semi-transparent
brush.
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Deleting the selection is done with Ctrl+Del instead of pressing simply Delete.
The Delete key removes the whole image format.
- Several useful tools are given to select a part of the image.
You can use the rectangular/elliptical marquee, lasso, magic wand and pencil select tools, as if
you used a professional photo editor program. Selections can be added/subtracted/intersected.
However, one should notice that, before moving/resizing a selected area, the
Transform (F) tool has to be selected.
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Drawing with the transparent color has no effect. To clear parts of the image, the
Eraser (E) tool should be used. To use it as a pencil, set
1 for the brush width in the Tool Behavior dialog box.
To get started, create a new document, or
convert an existing image file to an icon.
You can also view the sample icons which have been created using Greenfish Icon Editor Pro and
can be found in the <Greenfish Icon Editor program folder>\Samples folder.