1)Download and install Gimp freeware
http://www.gimp.org/windows/
2)Right mouse click on 1.png and select "edit with gimp"
3)In Gimp app window (upper left corner) tap "file">"open as a layers" and navigater to your own icon (from
www.iconspedia.com or any other source)
4)Once you see that icon on top of 1.png,click "layer">"scale layer" and scale it to 74 or 76 or 82 (its up you)
5)Do the same "open as a layers" with 1b.png,then adjust brightness/contrast (colors>brightness-contrast).
6)Congradulations,now you can do icons
The transtarent project is even easier:
1)Open raw icon,scale it to 74 (image>scale image>74)
2)image>canvas size 90x90-center-resize)
3)open as a layers and navigate to my 2new-ProjectTransparent.png
4)Save as new.png