Icon Creation?

I have a jpg image 87 X 90 that's 14.7 KB that I would like to convert to an .ico file of 32 X 32 pixels. Can I accomplish this with PSE8? If so, would you please walk me through the process, please?

Read through this link. I think this will cover about everything including a link to the site where you can download the .ico file format plug in which is free or you can leave a donation. It's available in both Windows and Mac flavors.
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/favicon.html
There should be a readme in that zip. It should install in your file formats folder which resides in your Plug Ins folder. I'm not sure in Elements whether that's going to be in your main application folder or if that's going to be in the hidden folder.
Edit: Added Reading material...
Here's a couple of MS links that cover icon creation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511280.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997636.aspx
Vector shapes are going to probably work better than raster (pixels). This is because vector shapes can be transformed larger or smaller without deteriorating...as in blurry and pixelated. Elements is vector ability is limited to using the shape tools and custom shapes as you can't create your own vector designs in Elements. You can add and subtract from shapes but that's not really an good solution. If you want those sleek icons like what you see on the MS site, you might consider looking into finding a vector program or maybe a program dedicated to icon creation.

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I have Adobe Photoshop CS and Adobe Illustrator CS. I am assuming that one of those are able to create custom shaped icon format images for using on Mac folders.
I am able to save usable icons for folders as .psd format.
However, they are always square or rectangular, with a blank background around a non-square/non-rectangular image.
I'm not able (don't know how) to save icons as custom shapes that only appear as the custom shape when in use on a folder.
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http://aycu04.webshots.com/image/11643/2005780580547335471_rs.jpg
Info box of the .psd image, when copying the small top-left icon image to paste over the top-left default folder icon image in the default folder's Info box
http://aycu16.webshots.com/image/10335/2005722217103974447_rs.jpg
A randomly selected custom iPod icon that was downloaded from an Icon website, already on a folder
http://aycu23.webshots.com/image/11302/2001094680500985005_rs.jpg
Info box of folder
http://aycu11.webshots.com/image/9890/2001025358503314932_rs.jpg
I know how to use the Save for Web feature in Photoshop using the .png-24 selection which produces a transparent background, but that format doesn't work for icons.
What format(s) do I need to save images as to use as custom shaped icons on Mac folders?
A detailed reply would be very appreciated.
17" iMac G4, 1GHz PowerPC, 768mb RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

The easiest way to get what you want is try Iconographer:
http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html
It is quick, easy and a mere $15. You can do it "by hand" but it can get a bit complicated or iffy.
1. Create the icon you want in Photoshop, format is 128x128 pixels at 72dpi.
2. Make sure you have a transparent background layer, flatten the file
3. Save as a tif file: myicon.tif
4. Launch Terminal and type the command:
tiff2icns /path/to/myicon.tif
You can get Terminal to fill in the path for you, just put a space after the command, then drag the file into the Terminal window and drop it.
Hit the Return key. With luck you will have a new file "myicon.icns" with the transparency preserved.
5. Actually using your icon requires the icns file to actually display the icon so you can copy it from the GetInfo window. The only sensible way to do this is to download the freeware program icns2icon:
http://www.icons.cx/goodies/
6. Launch icns2icon and drop your new icon file on it. Now when you do GetInfo on the file there will be an icon to copy.
Iconographer is easier and better. If you want to make a bunch of custom icons with transparent backgrounds it is well worth the 15 bucks.
Francine
Francine
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Hello All,
Does anybody know how to properly create an image for a toolbar? I have successfully created a .gif image, but the gray border is around the image and does not blend into the toolbar/button color. How do I resolve this?
Thank You.

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This is foobars no artwork jpg.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/Chri5/musak-1.jpg
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I'd like it in black, deep red and deep blue.
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Hello again...
I just learned about putting a folder on the dock to display a group of aliases for my applications, so I could be able to start the applications with a single-click. Is there any way to not have the "Folder" as the icon for this, but something custom that I create using some sort of icon creation program?

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How to save an image as a PICT resource file?

Can someone tell me how to save an image as a PICT resource file? I'd like to make ikons in Photoshop and save them in this format, but I 'm not finding any leads. Thanks!

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Representative File Types with conversation on design
Requirements
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Design III
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Attachments:
FileIOClassDiagram.zip ‏7 KB
FileIOIcons.zip ‏5 KB
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Export Flexibility of Custom Shapes & Layer Styles?

Over the past few years I've developed a workflow for icon creation that involves purely custom shapes and layer styles. This has been fantastic from a number of points of view
- Vector based workflow for easy scaling, resizing
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- Custom shape library means rapid prototyping of common elements
While this approach in Photoshop helps me rapidly develop icons, it's now presenting some challenges from an export point of view. Specifically the path to vector based formats like svg and xaml is hindered by the fact that Photoshop and Fireworks/Illustrator don't share a common layer styles approach. (Fireworks having a XAML export plugin and Illustrator having both XAML plugin and SVG export capability)
While the above programs are more geared towards vector work, they don't offer the flexibility of Photoshop when it comes to creating photorealistic icons with texturing.
Is anyone aware of a method for exporting a vector element from photoshop while maintaing the editability of layer styles? (Exporting simple shapes in PDF works but falls down once masks and layer styles come into the equation)
Fireworks CS4 seems to import select PSD's decently but there is not a 1:1 relationship between the layer effects from Photoshop. Illustrator seems to assume that anything coming out of Photoshop will be bitmap based and acts accordingly.
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Cian Walsh
[link deleted]

Hi guys,
From last week am I trying to do what I mentioned in post above, I just find it very difficult to do. Now I beginning to doubt whether it is possible or not, provided the SDK we have for CS4.
What do you think, is it a doable item and I am missing some simple thing ??
Please let me know of your views its really very important.
Thanks,
D

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The LVOOP ImageMagick Interface library supports all of the ImageMagick utilities and almost every command-line operator (over 200 of them) with support for custom user-specfied operators for the edge cases. Several examples are included that demonstrate basic text & image creation, composition, and conversion in and out of LabVIEW (including VI icon creation).
It also gives LabVIEW as a language a spot on the list of official external ImageMagick APIs.
The LVOOP ImageMagick Interface is available above under the GPL. Other licensing terms may be available. Contact Justin Goeres Engineering for details.

Hi Pat,
I can help. (And I confess I'm surprised to get a reply notification on this thread – blast from the past!)
My old LVOOP ImageMagick library may or may not work anymore. I think that later versions of IM (or maybe LabVIEW itself) changed some stuff around and broke it. And it's not a VI Package so it's a hassle to deal with. Honestly, at this point I'd recommend doing what you need from scratch. It's pretty easy. Read on.
First, let's get you a portable, static-linked version of ImageMagick that doesn't have all those DLLs cluttering things up. Here's a direct download link that I think will work. It's from this page, and you can find it yourself if you do a Find there for "portable."
Once you've got that, unzip it. You should see a bunch of different EXE files. Those are the ImageMagick utilities. The one you want is convert.
You should be able to resize a gif by cd'ing to the directory where the convert.exe is, and doing convert <input_file> -resize 400x500 <output_file>, using whatever size you want. You can run that command line via LabVIEW's System Exec.vi and you'll be good to go.
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Create a folder that inside is in list view and smallest font?

I hope this is simple,
Using Applescript I want to be able to make a folder That when I open it, is in the list mode and using the smalles font (8). Could be useful if I can even specify where on the screen i want it to open and the size of that window. list and font are however more important.
Matt

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I've tried to shorten the script here
set thePrefix to ""
set theWeekNumber to ""
set theMonth to ""
set thisDate to current date
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on augustThirdWeek(d) -- get the third monday of August
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 repeat 2 times
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set theWeekNumber to theWeekNumber
repeat
--set theWeekNumber to do shell script "date -v+133d +%V"
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 my (setCustomIcon from bhsIcon to the result)
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--then I inserted your bit here
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 parameters - imageFile [various]: an imagefile for the icon (Finder alias or POSIX text)
 destination [various]: a destination item to set to the icon (Finder alias or POSIX text)
 returns [boolean]: true if icon is set, false otherwise
 set imageFile to imageFile as text
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do shell script "/usr/bin/sips -i " & tempImage -- add a Finder icon to the image
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do shell script "/usr/bin/file " & quoted form of destination -- determine the destination file type
 if the result contains "directory" then -- folder
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 set Command to Command & "/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V " & theTarget & "; " -- make it invisible
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do shell script Command -- do it
 on error errmess number errnum -- oops
log errmess
-- display alert "Error " & errnum message errmess buttons {"OK"}
 return false
 end try
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do shell script "rm " & tempImage & space & tempResource
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