Stadalone Icons

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Karen and Sarah,

If you are creating icons for Windows, you don't want to use  
IconoGrapher. It creates an ugly mask that is visible in all  
transparent areas of the icon. If you are creating icons for Mac OS X  
and Mac OS 9 only, IconoGrapher is a great tool. I tried contacting  
the author to ask when an update will become available, but didn't  
get an answer.

For Mac, there is Apple's Icon Composer. You will find this in  
folder /Developer/Applications/Utilities, after installing Apple's  
Developer Tools, which you can obtain for free from Apple Developer  
Connection or is included with your system software.

For Windows, there is an excellent freeware tool, called IconFX,  
which creates icons for Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. Download  
it from <http://icofx.xhost.ro/>.

Best regards,

Mark

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Op 14-mrt-2007, om 6:59 heeft Sarah Reichelt het volgende geschreven:

>
> Hi Karen,
>
> Welcome to the Revolution!
>
> I don't use Photoshop so I can't give you any advice about it's
> plugin, but I use a shareware program called Iconographer (I see you
> are on a Mac): <http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html>.
>
> Import your Photoshop icon or image into Iconographer, generate the
> mask if needed, then "Complete Icon" to fill in all the other sizes.
> If you save as a .icns file, that will work for Mac OS X applications.
> Save as a .ico file for Windows.
>
> In your stacks Standalone Settings, find the icons section for the
> particular platform and select the icon file you just saved. On OS X,
> when you build the app, it won' tlook as if it has the real icon. Copy
> the app to another folder or zip & unzip it to make the icon appear.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sarah