Icon Format Plugin For Photoshop

[Arleen Jerdee]

TheAlias file format plug-in allows you to read and write files in the Alias .pix format. This format is commonly used for 3D rendering software from Alias/Wavefront, and in some image-editing software on UNIX systems.

The HSL&HSB plug-in allows conversion from RGB > HSL (Hue, Saturation, and Lightness) and back, and from RGB > HSB (Hue, Saturation, and Brightness) and back within Photoshop. This plug-in allows you to make changes to the Hue, Saturation, or Luminosity of an image as independent channels, or make changes in HSL/HSB using channel operations (calculations).

The SGIRGB format plug-in allows you to read and write files in the SGI image format. This format is commonly used by software on the Silicon Graphics platform. The SGI image format plug-in recognizes the file extensions .sgi, .rgb, .rgba, and .bw.

In case you decide to draw off-line instead, I use Xara (www.xara.com) to draw all my computer artwork, and I use Gif Movie Gear to create .ico files. The former is a superb vector package, the latter is just something I have lying around.

I use GIMP for my icon design, but it's quite a bit of a pain having to join all the layers together then creating different layers for each icon size before exporting. Hmm maybe I could make my next project writing a plugin for the GIMP.

When creating icons for my apps using VS, I simply use Paint (32x32) to draw it and save as PNG, then I go to -image-editor.com/, upload my PNG, click on the Wizards tab, click the Transparent button, then click on the points in the image I want to make transparent (usually, just the white sections.) I then save the image, go to another web site at -tool/pic-to-icon.php, upload the saved image from the previous site, set my Preference options, convert, and download. Viola, a transparent icon! Other than the actual drawing of the original image, it literally takes just a couple of minutes.

James ... I don't see my last post to you. I did create a new user as you suggested ... the problem persists in the new user. It is very specific to saving a Powerpoint file. I went online to see if others were experiencing this problem. Seems there are a few of us out there. Many of the suggestions were similar to your recommendations. Only one person has listed success in solving the problem. She suggested that her problem rest with dropbox and she solved the problem by adding this line

James ... It occurs for all new-saves and re-saves of PowerPoint. I've already walked down the customer support road with Microsoft ... they think it's a Mac issue. It also occurs for some but not all Photoshop files although there doesn't seem to be any pattern re: png vs. jpeg. I moved a large number of photo files to my Apple cloud as I had only 15% free space left, to rule memory out as a possible contributing factor. The problem definitely appeared after I updated to MacOS Monterey 12.2.1. CIt also occurs on some photoshop files

On the Desktop, press CMD+J and make sure Show Icon Preview is checked. Navigate to where the files that are missing previews are located and then rinse and repeat to ensure the Show Icon Preview is turned on.

To boot into Safe Mode hold the Shift key while powering on. Let go to login then continue holding Shift after pressing Return. If the disk is encrypted you will have to login a second time. Keep holding that Shift key until you get to the desktop. Then give the systems 2-3 minutes to finish doing stuff behind the scenes. Then shutdown and restart normally.

Apple switched from bash to zsh due to software licensing. The bash shell adopted a more rigid open source license so Apple switched to zsh which has a different license and zsh is more advanced anyway. But none of this actually matters in your case. Bash is still there and it still works. The message is merely informing you about it.

I would guess there is some preference or configuration file damaged in your user profile on the Mac. Create a new user to test. Copy over some files to /Users/Shared and copy them to the test users Desktop and experiment a bit. If the problem goes away with the test user then the problem is within your user profile on this Mac.

I would then create a new user for myself, copy all the data over (since you have things in Cloud that shouldn't be anymore difficult than re-authenticating to the cloud system). Yes, this is a pain but if it works then the problem is solved. Once everything is perfect, you can remove the original user account as well as the test account and get on with life. You'll need to redo all your App settings, etc. But at least you will have a clean fresh start.

Good morning James ... I created a new user, relinked to my cloud account and copied two files (an old saved file that does correctly preview icon display and a new saved file that does not. ARRRGH ... problem persists in the new user. I did go back to Microsoft customer support this morning and we trashed the current powerpoint portion of Microsoft 360 and reinstalled PowerPoint. Same problem. In an earlier email I mentioned that I had moved a bunch of Photoshop files to the cloud. Photoshop files are displaying correctly in the cloud; PowerPoint files are not.

It sounds like PowerPoint is the main problem and if other files associated to other Apps are working... I saw JPG was working but PNG was not and PPTX definitely had issues. Try this first, select one of the problem files and press CMD+I to pull up the Get Info screen. Look at the Open With entry and make sure it's pointing to the correct application. PNG should be Preview. PPTX would be the correct PowerPoint. If you change say PNG to be Preview and the Change All button is clickable go ahead and click it. That will force Preview to the be default application for PNG file types. Repeat with PowerPoint files, etc.

You could try that tool. Don't reset everything, just try resetting PowerPoint first. It will repair problems and reset the App to its default out of the box configuration. So you will need to redo any settings in PowerPoint.

On the reassuring side ... sounds like the problem is specific to my computer setup and that files created on my computer (lacking PowerPoint thumbnails, although annoying for me) will still display correctly (with thumbnails intact) when downloaded on other computers .( ) : )

In the history of the web, designers have tried a variety of methods to use icons on websites. That was for many reasons: scalability, performance and ability to recolor them without maintaining a large amount of image files. Since using non-standard fonts has become commonplace in web development in recent years, this has also lead to the rise of icon fonts, that are simply fonts containing symbols instead of typical characters from the alphabet.

But to be clear, there are some disadvantages too. Icons from an icon font can only be a single color and, due to differences across browsers, rendering and font smoothing can be unreliable. Nonetheless, icon fonts are, in most cases, a great solution for adding resolution-independent graphic assets to your website.

Imagine you have a bunch of vector icons, in different dimensions and styles, each one in its own document and you want to create a consistent and unified icon font. To manage and keep track of a large amount of icons and exporting them to various sizes and formats can be a Sisyphean task.

So once we have filled up our new document with icons, artboards will allow us to have a perfect overview and organization for the complete set. The basic rules of creating a consistent and unified icon sets are to set up visual rules and apply them to all icons.

In our example, we will create an icon font with outlined icons. We will select all icons in the document (Ctrl + A) and apply a unified stroke weight (1 px), corner and cap style of the stroke (rounded). If you have downloaded icons with converted strokes, try to use icons from the same collection or, at least, the same designer.

The files will be exported to the location you choose, named by the pattern you defined in the export window. The filenames will start with the prefix (if set; optional) and followed by the artboard name.

Adobe Illustrator has a pretty perfect solution to keep up with large amount of icons in one place and being able to export all of them to SVG (or other formats and dimensions), with just one click. It also makes it easy to apply style changes to all icons and re-export in literally few seconds. In terms of time savings, Artboards is the best feature ever for icon designers for sure.

I encourage you to use icon fonts for your next project. And if you want, you are more than welcome to use my free icon set, which includes a handpicked selection of 200 outlined icons from the Picons Thin collection.

Unless you're a graphic designer by training (like me), chances are you've never needed to understand things like what separates a TIF from a PDF or a PSD. While the large variety of image formats may seem overwhelming, there is a method to the madness.

Raster images are constructed by a series of pixels, or individual blocks, to form an image. JPEG, GIF, and PNG are all raster image extensions. Every photo you find online or in print is a raster image. Pixels have a defined proportion based on their resolution (high or low), and when the pixels are stretched to fill space they were not originally intended to fit, they become distorted, resulting in blurry or unclear images.

In order to retain pixel quality, you cannot resize raster images without compromising their resolution. As a result, it is important to remember to save raster files at the exact dimensions needed for the application.

Vector images are far more flexible. They are constructed using proportional formulas rather than pixels. EPS, AI and PDF are perfect for creating graphics that require frequent resizing. Your logo and brand graphics should have been created as a vector, and you should always have a master file on hand. The real beauty of vectors lies in their ability to be sized as small as a postage stamp, or large enough to fit on an 18-wheeler!

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