These are free samples of what "portrait icons" are. They are all Windows desktop icons (.ICO) which can be used as replacement icons for individual folders.
To download an icon
DO NOT LEFT CLICK,
instead,
right click the icon you want to download.
After the right click
DO NOT CLICK "Save picture as,"
instead,
click "Save target as."
In case you're unfamiliar with icon formatting the Paris Hilton icon, for instance, is a file that actually contains ten separate images. The custom icons offered here will have either ten or nine formats.
The Windows operating system determines where any one of the formats will be displayed. If you use the Vista docking panel at maximum icon size, the image labeled "256" will be displayed. When you place this icon in a folder and then change that folder's view setting to List or Detail the 16-pixel version of the image is displayed. If you "assign" this icon to a folder, then the 16-pixel version appears at the extreme left of that folder's title bar. If you were to use it in Internet Explorer's link bar the 24-pixel version is displayed, and if you change a folder's view setting to "Icon" then whatever icon size is set in your system's Appearance Settings is the size chosen for display (also the same as on the desktop screen). The main standard for the desktop size of Windows icons is 32 pixels, so if you've never changed this setting then when you place the Paris Hilton icon onto your desktop screen it will look like the one labeled "32." These icons may not look very striking on your system if you're still using this standard. I prefer big, colorful, detailed icons so mine is set to 64.
If you enlarge both of these (and also make them the same height for comparison) you can see how much of a difference there is in the fineness -- the image on the right contains four times as many pixels as the other one. Even an increase from 32 to 48 would make a big improvement in how fine your icons look on your desktop.
