How do I make my own cursor?

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Not someone elses from a website, but how do I make my own? Someone had to make the cursors for download somehow....how?

A-hem?

Which operating system?

Windows(xp anyway) stores the graphics somewhere in c:\windows they will be in ico format, which is used for icons and can store animations. GIMP can save in that format, as can many applications.

If you are using Linux GIMP exports to the Linux mouse cursor format as well. I am sure that OS X uses a similar format as they have a xserver in common with Linux.

Other than that, a quick google will bring you tons of resources.

Cursor is just an image or a series of images. You can use any software you like to create them, but you need to save them in .cur or .ani format for Windows to use. Whatever software you use, you need to find a ani/cur output plugin. I'm quite certain GIMP doesn't support these formats out of the box, but it shouldn't be too difficult to find a plugin.

There are also softwares specifically for cursor design. Besides built in cur/ani format supports, they look more like tuned down versions of true image/animation editor. There's one called Greenfish Icon Editor Pro that is free. I'm not into cursor design and I haven't use it before so I have no idea how good it is.