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Quick Icon - Tool for the Lazy - Key0808 - 09-03-2013
Good day, rippers! Have you ever wanted to continue your lazy life style while creating icons and preview pictures? Well, I know I want to all the time. A while back when I found out I had to remake all my preview pictures, I made a small program that would take multiple unfinished preview pictures and apply the background to the image without you having to do a single thing. So I thought, why not become even lazier?
Introducing Quick Icon. Quick Icon applies the preview background to your preview renders, creates icons using file names and has you speed through the icon/preview process.
Capabilities:
ICON MAKER
Quick Icon will apply the icon background to your selected images and resize/align them if needed. It also names the icon to whatever you saved the original file as, so no need to input it yourself. Isn't technology wonderful?
PREVIEW MAKER
As described above, the preview maker will simply slap that smokin' preview background behind your preview renders. Can not be easier.
AUTO
Saved all your icons and preview renders in the same place? Throw them into the auto function. If the selected image is of icon size (95x79) or smaller, Quick Icon will turn it into an icon with the icon maker. If it's bigger, it'll turn it into a preview using the preview maker.
BOTH
If you want to be even lazier (is that even possible at this point?) you have the option to have Quick Icon turn your preview renders into preview images and at the same time resize them into an icon. It's mental.
This beautiful lazy man's tool is currently in development, and you can help by trying it out. It's free:
http://www.mediafire.com/?did1ihxb2z0p1qe
Quick Icon overwrites whatever image it is fed with the processed image. An undo button is built in to undo any errors, but because of its current state, I highly recommend backing up any images you're going to use. I'll most likely add an option for an output folder later.
Quick Icon also notifies you when an update is available (I think?), making sure you have the most stable version at all times.
Happy ripping, everyone.
This is in no way a replacement for Barubary's Icon Maker. Barubary's Icon Maker has much more functions to get the image you want. This program is a kind of if-you-meet-the-requirements thing, but it's still a handy dandy tool if you do meet those requirements.
RE: Quick Icon - Tool for the Lazy - Garamonde - 09-03-2013
Stickying.
RE: Quick Icon - Tool for the Lazy - Key0808 - 09-09-2013
Update: Long file names now get broken up into new lines. If the file name is too long to be broken up properly, the program will alert you and skip the image for the time being.
RE: Quick Icon - Tool for the Lazy - Key0808 - 10-11-2013
Update~
* Preview maker now re-sizes and re-locates images that aren't 588x410.
* Added shortcut keys for people who love shortcut keys as much as I do.
Has anyone been having any faulty runs with the program? Or have any practical ideas? Maybe just your solid opinion? I'd love to know. It's an in-development project after all.
RE: Quick Icon - Tool for the Lazy - Previous - 11-09-2013
Heyhey!
I wanted to say that this is really cool. It'd be great to have drag&drop though (defaulting to Auto, probably, or a selectable default option) and the option to save the new image as a new file (probably with a definable filename suffix; so I could set that to "_preview" and when I load a file "model.png" it'd save the preview image as "model_preview.png").
Either way, thanks for this! :D