RE: #737. I know bandit put one up but I wanted to take a stab at it as well. It's awaiting moderation.

I use Adobe Photoshop, Wrelt, that's all...dont need anything else
why? do you see a benefit for me in icon developer?

yes!!!!

I was just wondering how you make icons with Adobe Photoshop- I never knew you could.

Windows? never heard of it!
seriously, Wrelt.....I prefer a minimalistic desktop...put up a nice looking wall, use Object Dock with a nice transparent background that hides the icons when you're not using them....hide all the desktop icons and use Glass 2K to make the application windows transparent to about a 40% level...I design all of my icons larger than 800 X 800 pixels in Photoshop, resize them and save them as .pngs. I can also, with the help of a plug in ,save these as .icos...I appreciate your suggestion, but there is only so much gray matter to fill with design application knowledge, so I think I'll just stick with what I know.

Bandit4edu

While I understand sticking with what you know (I don't skin yet cuz the crayons mess up my screen), Icon Developer will give you the various icon size automatically with the ability to rework/replace a size if needed (like the 16x16s that turn out crappy) or pick/add custom sizes. You set it to your edtor of choice (in your case PS).

If you have ODNT or the paid ID, the size of creation goes up to 256x256.

Even if you don't use it for icon creation, it can be useful.

Create your png via PS, save it. right click on it and open with ID. Then you will have a quick idea of how the various icon sizes will look and which ones will need a touchup/rework for any particular size.


While I don't show the desktop icons myself, once in a while I use DTX with some object/icons. I like the individual sizing and it's easier with icons for that than png.  But, I also prefer png for ODock.

I'm just Trolling, but trying to keep it on a positive note....

dint mean to imply you were bean unpositive.  just meant I was trying to Troll positively.

docks don't need icons anyway, png works best (for me anyway).

just curious along the lines of comment 756 also.  I don't have PS (I have PSP8), when you save as ico in PS are there different sizes or one size or do you combine the sizes together?

for Photoshop users wanting to make .ico files...here's the file format plugin...it's free, well, donationware, and works smashingly!

Link

how do u convert photoshop files to png's? (free version?)

how do u convert photoshop files to png's?

I have Photoshop, but I am unfamiliar with the free version. If the free one won't save it in png, you would probably need another graphics program... one that can read and convert photoshop files.

A free and from what I hear, very good graphics program is Paint.Net>> [link="http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/"]http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/">Link

...sorry about image

Po's back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just flipped back through this thread a bit....MAN HAVE I POSTED SOME STINKERS! I've uploaded icons that I wouldnt dare claim if they didn't have my name on 'em in the forum.