- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (See description); $22.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: May 29, 2001
- Total Downloads: 288,510
- Downloads last week: 50
- See full specifications
- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 48 votes
See all user reviews
CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
With so few features and an interface only a mother could love, this image-conversion program is hardly worth the 22 bills requested. QTam Bitmap to Icon helps you convert images into ICO files. This trial version lets you convert only three files in a batch, and only BMP format is allowed. Even if this were remedied in the paid version, the program doesn't offer you much else, as only 16- and 256-color formats are supported. Though you can select among three standard icon sizes, you can't create a custom size. You can, however, crop images or apply automasking. Yet the program doesn't allow you to select an output path for your converted files. All files are automatically stored in the program's main folder. The largest bugaboo for us is the program's many, many screens, which require you to break your finger clicking through each to start converting. All the options scattered among these screens could have fit comfortably into one or two--but the designer's approach just slows down the process. Better options are out there, and many are freeware. Though we'd love to support QTam, a lot of design work has yet to be done before it's a powerful program.Publisher's description
From QTam Computer :QTam Bitmap to Icon is a small program designed for creating icons. Simply resize your image to 32x32 or 48x48 pixels and then use this program to convert the BMP to ICO. No other runtime DLL is needed. The program has an autoconvert function and the ability to mask all valid BMPs in the directory to ICOs with one touch.
Version 3.1 fixed the black spot bug from the previous version. Version 3.5 supports a Multi-Resource Icon Format. Also, the Preset Answers option lets you work much faster than before.
CNET Editor's Note: In this unregistered version, you can't input GIFs or JPEGs, and you can convert only up to three files at a time.
More popular Icon Tools downloads
- 8,575 downloads 1. IconPackager
- 1,542 downloads 2. Axialis IconWorkshop
- 727 downloads 3. IconX
- 554 downloads 4. Image Icon Converter
- 498 downloads 5. IconTweaker
- See all Icon Tools downloads
User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 48 votes
- My rating: 0 stars Write review
-
Showing 5 of 38 user reviewsSee all 38 user reviews
This software version | All versions -
Version: QTam Bitmap to Icon 3.5
Pros: This software is quite nice and easy to use
Cons: N/A
-
Version: QTam Bitmap to Icon 3.5
Summary: The product isn't for people who make icons seriously because the features are just so so. Plus you can only change three at a time if you don't want to pay for it. You shouldn't have a problem using it I am moron who took a week to get Greymatter t... read more >>
-
Version: QTam Bitmap to Icon 3.5
Summary: VERY GOOD ICON MAKER.INSTEAD of trying to find or download the right icon.Use this program and just make your own from BMP pictures.Options are available for icon color depth and option for icon size.A++++++
-
Version: QTam Bitmap to Icon 3.5
Summary: I used this program for the first time today and am amazed that you can do so much with this program, This product is great, If they would lower the price a little, I would buy this. It's just so easy to use, no wonder it's number one :-)
-
Version: QTam Bitmap to Icon 3.5
"quick and dirty icon creator"
Summary: The features included may be limited, but if you already have a bitmap created that you want to turn into icon format, this is the tool. It is fast and simple.
- See all 38 user reviews Write review
Submit your review
Previous Versions:
