Update to the logo of irfanview.exe

[dpattersonnz]

Hi folks, this is the irfanview icon on the website:



I think would look very tidy as an icon.
So I converted it to an .ico file and tested it on the properties of i_view64.exe


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It looks rather good as both large and small icons on the taskbar...

Here it is large:



and small:

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What do you guys think?

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For those who want to try it themselves follow the instructions below:

1. Download and unzip this file: irfanview_logo.zip
2. Next find the irfanview shortcut on your taskbar. Right click the shortcut, and right click again the "IrfanView 64 x.xx" (where x.xx stands for the current version) and click on ? Properties
3. In Properties (under the shortcut tab), click "Change Icon..." and now click Browse to the location of irfanview_logo.ico in your downloads folder. Easy!

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Thanks for reading, have a great day
-dpnz

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

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[dpattersonnz]

Hi Bhikku Pesala thank you for the notification.

I have edited the post to remove the expired link, and I have re-uploaded as a zip attachment irfanview_logo.zip (same as above).

One thing to note is the file inside the zipped folder is "logo2_2mo_icon.ico" (not irfanview_logo.ico as I said above) but will work either way.

Cheers

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

All good now. A slightly different matching version for IrfanView 32-bit would be a bonus.

[dpattersonnz]

How about this?



both this and the original in the zip folder below

irfanview_logos.zip

[Paultx]

Hi folks, this is the irfanview icon on the website:



I think would look very tidy as an icon.
So I converted it to an .ico file and tested it on the properties of i_view64.exe

It looks rather good as both large and small icons on the taskbar...

Here it is large:



and small:

?

What do you guys think?

I liked your idea very much and remembered that long ago I thought of an icon update for IrfanView. I'm not sure if I talked about it with Irfan himself...

Now I thought of improving your proposal, maybe making the icon only a circle, like this:


Besides, I wonder if you can make the icons in the biggest size Windows can support. I don't know exactly which size is that, but check this screenshot I took from my Desktop folder and you may see what I'm talking about:



Get it?

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I think 256 x 256 pixels is the most that is needed. Some monitors have a very high resolution and can make good use of the extra pixels. The icons from dpattersonnz work OK for me, but bigger would be better to distinguish easily between 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

[IrfanUserGuyxyx]

Use IrfanView to resize them!

[Paultx]

Use IrfanView to resize them!

It doesn't work well for that, because IV will resize everything in the bitmap image:



To keep all the details perfect when resizing it's necessary to use a scalable format, like SVG, EPS or similar. Or we can use an icon editor, like Junior Icon Editor. But we need preferably a scalable version of that illustration in the IV logo. Honestly, I don't know what it is... a cat?

See this test 64 x 64 px icon I created with Junior Icon Editor. I simply imported the image to make it:

[Paultx]

For some unknown reason I couldn't edit/update my previous post, so I wrote this one.

About the illustration in the logo, from Wikipedia:

[Paultx]

Check this test I made with the PNG I downloaded from Wikipedia, imported to an artwork in CorelDRAW 2017 then exported to a new PNG, and finally converted to ICO using Junior Icon Editor:



Now in my Desktop folder:




It was just a test, I did it in a hurry, so there is room for improvement, perhaps applying volume and reflection to the border, like someone did to the "road cat" illustration.

[Paultx]

I made one more test (PNG only), check below. I have to go back to work now!

[Paultx]

I made one more test (PNG only), check below. I have to go back to work now!

Based on that design, I made 32 and 64-bit icons with 256 px size and attached them in a ZIP file, in case you want to use them.

IrfanView shadows icons.zip