Most popular image editors are oriented to save images into .GIF format, and it can be bothering to convert them into ICO files each time when you have changed the original image. Using this utility you can easily automate this process of converting BMP or GIF files into ICO files.
The MakeIcon application was desgned to be a command line utility, that converts images in .GIF, .BMP and also .ICO file formats into Windows icons with desired number of bits per pixel: 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 bits supported. You can use arguments on command line to specify desired number of bits per pixel and a transparency color number for destination icon file.
Arguments: -bits=(1|4|8|16|24|32) - number of bits per pixel in resulting image -transparent[=hex] - color to use for mask generation -format[=.ICO|SCR] - output file format; icon or C/C++ source -preview - preview resulting image in text-mode -logo - show logo image in text-mode
