Another thing. If you want to make them nice smoothly scrolling, you could acomplish it, but would take even more time using photoshop and a gif animator.
OK, imagine: you have a ready big icon picture, like those above. Go to Photoshop, make a blank, lets say black picture of the same size as your icon picture. Copy the whole icon picture and paste it into the black one, but so, that u move it up nearly "out of the black picture" so you will see the black and only a little stripe of the icon on the upper side of the black one. Save it as lets say 1.jpg. then move the icon pict a little bit down, so you see a bit more of it and save as 2. Then move it again more down, and save and so on, till the icon picture "slides" completely down to cover the whole black picture. Everytime u move the icon over the black, move it for the same amount of pixels, so the final "movement in the animated pict would be fluent. So you will probably have now like 10 - 12 "frames of an animated gif. Put it in a giff animator as frames, set the timing between the frames to really low times, so the slide will be quick and leave it to run only one time. NOT LOOPING. Because, if you would stay on the menu longer, it would keep sliding down for ever and would look idiotic. I chose the movement up - down, cause from left to right, or reverse, would look good only if you would scroll the oposite way and not the same. Example: icons slide from left to right. You scroll from right to left, so the icons "comes" from the left. OK. But you scroll right, and the icon should come from right and comes again from left. BAD. So up down or down up is at least a bit better. And then make or use a theme, that has the background in the same colour as the blank that is getting covered by the icon pictures, so it wont slide covering a black background in a yellow theme :-)




