Create scalable, masked, resizable icons in Photoshop

Mar 01, '04 09:33:00AM

Contributed by: fabiopigi

It's such easy to make your own icons with alpha channel, and all that stuff. You only need PhotoShop, no plugins or additional software is required. What you have to do is this: Make (in PhotoShop) a graphic that is 128x128px height and width. Feel free, you can us true color, you can use alpha blending, and what you thinking need you logo. Don't forget the Apple-like shadow. Now just save the iamge as a .psd file and huh, the psd file has an icon that looks like your image.

In the Finder, select File -> Get Info, then click on the icon box and select Edit -> Copy; close the Get Info dialog. Open the Get Info dialog of the file you want to change the icon, and then click on the icon and then Edit -> Paste. Tata, there is now the icon, made in PhotoShop; resizable, shadowable, perfect. I'm using photoshop 7 and panther.

BTW: sorry for my bad English; I'm still a student in Switzerland.

[robg adds: Some of you may consider this quite obvious, but hopefully it will save someone some time. BTW, Photoshop Elements works just as well as the full Photoshop for this task.]

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