Cursor you usually wear white and flat, very boring. Many people who want to have a different cursor, even to create their own.
For that, we already have the solution, you can download free cursor in Totally free cursors.. Or you can also make your own by using Greenfish Icon Editor Pro. By using this applications, you can create cursor or icon and you can also upload that to the internet.
Download here.
Greenfish Icon Editor Pro review and help
1. Introductions
This section is about various tricks that help you be more productive with GFIE Pro. It is highly recommended to read this, as it will also help you understand the user interface.
All textboxes in the user interface
which expect numbers allow you to input mathematical expressions! For example, you can specify the size for your new graphic as
24*12 as width and
24*2 as height, if you are about to design a toolbar which contains
12×2 glyphs of size
24×24. You can use parentheses and the operators
+ - * / % ^ exp ln sqrt sqr sin cos tan asin acos atan round floor ceil to construct your expressions. Formulas as complex as
round((sin(34/5)+0.4)*0.8) can be evaluated.
On the left side of the screen, you can see the
Toolbar with tools for drawing, selecting and retouching. First of all, you may notice that, when moving your mouse over the tool buttons, you can see a letter in brackets after the tool name in the tooltip appearing. This is a shortcut to that tool. For example, you may press
F on your keyboard to activate the
Transform tool instead of using the tool buttons.
There is, however, a "hidden" tool in GFIE. This is the
Hand tool: hold down Space and start dragging the canvas to move it. You can also move the canvas by using the scrollbars by the right and bottom of the picture frame.
Scrolling the mouse wheel zooms in and out. The zooming level can also be set by using the number keys
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; or by pressing
+, -, *, / to zoom in/out, switch to actual size or zoom the image to fit the window. The
arrow keys move the view or the floating selection, depending on the circumstances.
It is important to note that, in GFIE Pro, you have to press
Ctrl+Del to delete the selected image part. Pressing
Del has no effect. Also note that, GFIE is in some aspects more similar to Photoshop™ or the Gimp than Paint. For example, if you have some part of the image selected, then the newly drawn shapes (rectangle, ellipse, etc.) get clipped by the selection. Another important thing is, that after e.g. selecting a rectangular part with the
Rectangular select tool, you have to switch to the
Transform tool to move the selection around. Using the same selection tool once more results in selecting a different region instead of transforming the selected image part. In addition, when starting to draw with a tool, the floating selection does not automatically stick to the canvas but remains floating - you have to explicitly flatten the floating selection by pressing
Escape or
Ctrl+D (Edit|Deselect).
This paragraph is for those who have already used icon editors. In Greenfish Icon Editor Pro, you cannot specify the
color depth for the individual icon pages. Instead, it is
determined automatically according to image contents. If you draw with an antialiased brush on a fully transparent image, the color depth will expand to 32-bit. If you only use the 16 system colors supported by old VGA monitors, then the color depth will be no more than 4-bit. To sum up, you draw the image, and the program determines (and displays) the most economical color depth in which the specific icon page can be saved.
Some words about color management: with the GFIE color picker, you can set either the
foreground or the
background color at a time. You have to explicitly choose between those two by clicking on one of the rectangular patches on the top of the color picker widget, which show the currently selected foreground/background colors. When drawing on the canvas, clicking the
left or the
right mouse button determines which color to use, just like in good old Paint. For selecting colors, you can either use a
HSB (Hue-Saturation-Brightness)
map, or a bunch of
color swatches (you can switch between those two by clicking on the three right-pointing arrows in the
Color Picker). A swatch can be selected for drawing by left-click and overwritten by right-click. The swatches are especially useful when you are about to design 16-color or 256-color images, or if you want to re-use your favorite colors several times.
I hope you found this introductional section useful!
2. Creating Cursor
a. Static Cursor (non-animated)
It may be surprising but .ICO (Windows icon) and .CUR (Windows cursor) files are very-very similar. (This means that cursors may also have multiple pages which may also be PNG-compressed, but this scarcely occurs.) The only difference is that, considering a cursor, all pages must have a so-called
hot spot which is a special pixel marking the spot where mouse events occur. For example, this is the tip of an arrow, the tip of the pointing finger of a hand cursor or just the middle of an I-beam (text cursor). This pixel can be specified using the
Hot spot (H) tool.
Usually, Windows cursors have no more than
one page which is
32 x 32 pixels large and may be of arbitrary color depth. The
inverted color is widely used - it allows the pointer to be visible over almost all screen images.
So let's summarize the most important characteristics of Windows cursors:
- One page with 32 x 32 pixels
- Hot spot specified
- Optional use of the inverted color
Open select.cur from the Samples folder in order to see an example - that cursor was extracted from GFIE itself.
b. Animated Cursor or GIF(Graphics Interchange Format) Animation
When creating an animation, document pages correspond to movie frames, so your only task is to set a frame duration to all the pages.
This can be done by choosing Icon|Page properties or double-clicking the concerned page. The edit box labeled Frame duration contains the duration value for the selected frame, which has an initial value of zero milliseconds (no animation). Choose Icon|Apply frame duration to all frames to set the same duration for all frames - the duration value which is currently set for the selected page.
Please note that you may experience round-off errors when saving and reloading an animation file. Animated cursors use the jiffy as units (1/60 second), while, in GIF files, the duration must be an integral multiple of 1/100 s. Thus a duration value of 143 is loaded back as 150 (ANI) or 140 (GIF).
More help is available on GFIE help tab.
