Select the image and hold the mouse button to drag it into the canvas. So, let’s check out how to make a custom icon in Windows 10. Visit our corporate site. Thank you for signing up to Tom's Guide. Learn how your comment data is processed. If you're pasting a larger size into a smaller size, you can use the icon handles to resize the image. We strongly recommend that you use an image that is a square or it will be stretched or squished. If you have this icon in JPG format, there will be a solid white box around. The shadow in this image is done exactly this way. You can create your own custom icons for desktop shortcuts. As much as it sounds hard, manual anti-aliasing is easy, and even fun. The Hotspot property in the Properties window shows the hot spot coordinates. The solution is to anti-alias manually. Select choose once you’ve cropped it to a square. Users are certainly getting crafty — I’m personally amused by this throwback to iOS 4 and the many layouts trending on #ios14homescreen  — but they’re not doing it alone. Click the plus ‘+’ sign in the top right of your screen. Select the pixel you want to assign as the cursor's hot spot. To do hard highlights, use the one pixel pencil tool and, as before, a lowered opacity for the color. For reference, the small square widget is the size of 4 apps, while the large square widget is the size of 16 apps. Go to the folder or file you want a new icon for, go to Properties, go to Customize (or if it is already on the first selection then it should say "Change icon") and change the icon. All you need for this is the opacity setting of the pencil tool. For icons, this action creates an icon resource with a 32 × 32, 16-color icon. Paint 3D also includes a relatively small collection of stickers you can utilize for icons. Create a separate foreground layer for the shape, and choose a light, but not completely white, color for the background layer. Our icon maker guide provides details for Windows 10’s best icon maker software. You can open GIF or JPEG images in the Image Editor and save them as bitmaps. It’s best to keep an additional window open with an unmagnified view, so you can see what your icon will look like. You can use gradients to enhance the shape of an object. Be sure to click on the image icon or ‘[Widget size] #1.’. It will appear in the first free space on your home screen. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. After you’re done with the icon, you can drag colors from the palette to the background layer to make sure that the icon looks right on any background. Click done in the top right corner. Long press on an app icon or your wallpaper. You can add icons to your desktop to create a shortcut to certain apps and folders. That is, focus mostly on defining a set of hues you’ll be using. It’s a lot like Photoshop and other similar applications, in that it uses a large number of dialogs.