#How to change icon picture on exe how to
#How to change icon picture on exe .exe

I don't know about you, but nothing makes a game more inviting than having a nice sexy icon saying 'Hey baby, you want some sugah?'. I think for a long time before now whenever you would do what I prescribed here, it would create a big ugly 'shortcut' image in the icon.

#How to change icon picture on exe .exe

EXE file you just made.Р”Р„gain, I know there are better ways, but this is what I've found out, so I'm sharing. In Steam, go to the properties of the game in question, and 'Choose Icon'. EXE after the next step, the icon will fail to load in Steam.Р”В©. I'm pretty sure if you delete, move, or rename the. EXE and the icon in the game's directory, or somewhere safe where you won't delete it. Click 'Build EXE' near the bottom of the window. In the window that appears, on the far right, click the 'Select Icon.' button, and browse to your newly-made. I typically put mine on the desktop, and name it 'icon.exe'Р”В¦. Name and find a place for your new 'Empty Icon'. EXE file, which won't run a thing, but will carry the full-size icon we want for Steam to use.Р”Тђ. Open Advanced BAT to EXE Converter, and just click the second icon from the left - looks like a weird skinny window being smushed with something in it. Go to the following website and convert your. Ensure the image file you want to stand as your icon is in. :) It's also possible that icons made in this way are limited to 256 colours, I'm not sure.

#How to change icon picture on exe how to

I don't really fall into that category, so here's the way I've figured out how to do it given my skill-set. There of course are better, more professional ways of doing this for those people who have above-basic computer image / media skills. So that things don't get distorted, your finished and desired icon image should be in a standard square icon size (a multiple of 32x32 is best - I prefer 96x96 or 128x128). Useful programs for doing this image manipulation (assuming you don't have any) are PhotoFiltre 7 (freeware) or GIMP 2 (also freeware). Then I either make the entire image the icon or isolate a particular part of the image (say, a game character) and make the rest transparent. Personally, I do this by taking or finding a screen capture image of something I want to make an icon out of.

DISCLAIMER This guide assumes you have some capacity to capture or make your own icon images (in.