I'm severely visually impaired and have a heck of a job distinguishing standard Windows icons - there's only five or siz that I can tell the difference between, and as i need about twenty shortcuts on my desktop, each with a very different icon, this caused a certain amount of nose-on-screen to try to find the icon that i wanted.

Just occured to me to see how hard it would be to make my own; did a Google, yours was the third, and the first that didn't involve vectors and drop shadows and having a degree in PC-nerdiness. So I tried it, and it worked - first time! Now I can create ALL my own icons, with bold colour contrasts and simple designs that can be identified at more than three inches. You've saved me a lot of back pain and headaches. thank you!

Only prob: I forgot to take note of the Paint Image Attributes, to reset the sheet back for other use! clue, please? then i can keep a blank icon-sized image as the template for future icons without having to change the Attributes again.