I mentioned yesterday how I was trying to work on icons for my TeamTrack application – well, this morning I got the new registration code for the IconEdit2 application that I use for converting graphics to icons for the applications. This works to a certain extent. The problem with most icons these days is that they are intended to have transparent backgrounds which is remarkably hard to get right when you want to have it work on a light or a dark background. Look at what Microsoft did for their Office Icons… They changed them to square icons with hard borders. So much easier.

The other thing that was happening was that the software was leaving the occasional white patch inside the middle of the transparent area of the icon. Editing the icon again with VisualStudio fixed this… I might just bite the bullet and pay an artist to create some icons for me… I think it would be easier…