I must be missing something… Program installed and registered without issues. I loaded an image file, selected a square area that I wanted to use and cropped it, thinking that would be the image used for the icon file. Nope.
I picked the option to create a “Window icon from image” (yes, they got the name of the OS wrong). A menu of different icon sizes appeared, I selected a few. Then the view changed. At left was a list of the icon sizes I picked, and most of the screen was a view of my icon-in-progress. Here is where I can move, rotate, change colors, paint, etc. But my image was larger than the icon frame (256 x 256). No way to scale my image to fit it. All I could do is select which part of my image would appear in the final icon. And I had the Image Size… settings set to stretch image and maintain aspect ratio (no option to fit image).
All downhill from this point… If I pick a smaller icon size, a smaller part of my image will fit it. So apparently, for each icon size desired, I need to pick different parts (or different amounts) of the image. Every icon created will look very different. Ok, so maybe that’s how these things are meant to work. I didn’t see anything obvious to complete the icon creation process, so I picked File > Save As… from the menus and created a .ico file.
When I open this with Photos (Windows 10’s built-in photo viewer), I see a black box. If I open in XNView, I get a popup saying the file contains multiple pages (good) but each page shows a grey rectangle with different types of borders. I tried another .ico file found on my PC and both programs showed me an image of an icon. XnView let me see different pages from that icon file. As I expected, each was basically the same image but with different amounts of detail.
I tried to replace an icon for a program with my new icon file. My image was not in the icon. I got a square white box with a transparent rectangle inside.
So the program doesn’t work the way I expected, I can work around that by scaling and cropping the image to different sizes in another program. But, I see no way to get all those merged into a single multi-page .ico file. But, since the saved output files are not usable, there’s no point in keeping this program.
Anyone else have a better experience (as I said, maybe I’m missing something here), or did Soft Orbits let us down on this one?