Shelooga
Member
How can I make an icon any shape besides a square? For example I want an icon outlining a droid, not a square icon with a picture of a droid. Am I going to need to buy an editing program?
I would say yes you need an editing program. Most icons are not jpeg or bitmap format. A lot use the png format that allows a clear or erased background. It is still square but it appears to be round as that is all that can be seen.
Droid I- Rom, crap which one did I load again?
How about GIMP
As already suggested and tried, GIMP is great. If you just want to make a few icons though, you could also get a trial of Adobe Creative Suite which includes Fireworks and Photoshop. I find that casual users like Fireworks better where as they find GIMP and Photoshop a little difficult.
Just throwing it out there for others.