Free Icons For Photoshop

[Cristoforo Kanoy]

The icons need to be 24 x 24px, and saved as PNG. I created the icons in Photoshop, set the resolution to 300 (to try and make it as crisp and sharp as possible) and saved each file as a PNG. Here's an example of how they turned out:

I was under the impression that, at 24x24 px, it wasn't going to get much less pixelated than this. Am I wrong about this? Is there a way to export these tiny little image files so that they are as un-pixelated as possible?

I would suggest to set the dimensions of your canvas to 24px x 24px and zoom in enough that you can see the pixel grid. Then nudge and/or resize your icons until they align with the specific pixels. This will minimize the anti aliasing on the rectangular shapes. Not much you can do about tiny circles though. There will be anti aliasing, want it or not.

I have circled things that suggest misalignment. If a rectangular shape is aligned to the pixel grid and its stroke and width are perfect pixel dimensions, then the colours on both sides should be the same. In fact, the colour should be solid, not 3 different shades of the same colour.

This does not mean that your design is wrong. You can make things whatever width you want and place them wherever you want. It just means that to be rendered at such a small size PS needs to use anti aliasing.

One last thing. Your comment about 300dpi confuses me. If you are creating an image that will be seen at 24px x 24px on a screen, talking about its resolution has no place. I talk about that topic in this answer.

EDIT NOTE: 7-1-23 I decided to downgrade to version 24.5 since it works fine. I might try deleting the beta version maybe there is some mix up in the pref. files between 24.6 and the beta version. For now I am done with this issue and I am waiting for 24.7 or later befor updating again.

Hi I have an issue where when photoshop opens my tool bar is blank except for the triangles in the lower right of each tool, I attached a screen shot. This started with my update to ver. 24.6 a few days ago.

I would go to the beta version but I don't know how long it will be before they release gen. fill into the wild, I am guessing it will be a while and I don't want to use beta versions of programs that could develop new issues with updates.

Someone else on the forum recently posted the same issue, and I am looking for the post. I believe the suggestion was to reset the tools (Options Bar, click on the tool icon, and then click on the gear at the top right of the dropdown panel and select Reset All tools)

I've lost the icons in the Adjustments panel three times now, but they were all in the Beta version. On the first two occasions I reset Preferences to fix it, which is always annoying, even if you have the Photoshop Settings folder backed up. On the third time it happened, I tried resatarting Photoshop and it worked. After that I used the Deactivate native Canvas setting in Preferences, and have had no issue since, but that was only four days ago, so it might break again yet.

It was checked off in my version, I clicked it on and then off and the problem continues. When I do the tool reset it goes away for a couple of photoshop openings, but the problem keeps coming back. I did the preferences deleting this afternoon with no luck.

Hello Joe !! I have the same problem... icons disappear... it's really very annoying. Restore the PS or worse than that, reinstall it with another older version. Hopefully a version will come out soon that fixes it. Thank you for sharing those sad experiences, I don't feel so alone. Greetings

I downgraded to 24.5 for my work that version works fine. I have the beta verson downloaded to and that works fine. Something I just thought about is maybe deleting the beta version, since Gen fill really isn't very interesting to to me until its full resolution and then my guess is adobe will charge for it like they did with the 3d modeling that was in photoshop.

Is this the full release or beta version?

I have an onging issue with the adjustments panel in the beta version, which usually clears by simply restarting Photoshop. When it doesn't resetting Preferences always fixes it.

I'm interested to know if any of the people who have the missing Toolbar icons in 24.7 beta, have the same problem after updating to the recent full release 24.7 update? For me, the missing Adjustments panel icons issue has now appeared in the 24.7 full release.

So I now have no Adjustment panel icons in either full release or beta. It's not life or death for me as I use shortcuts, but if my experience is reflected by the missing Toolbar icons issue, then that is not flash. Not flash at all!

I am getting better at remembering tool locations on the bar -- and hovering first to check with a tooltip pop-up. But c'mon. One of the oldest, most famous photo editors out there and this is still not fixed?

Same issue as everyone else, tried everything, it's not just that I also get the cm, inches, etc panel vanishing making a new document, it happens on all versions. Tried everthing it's also only shuttable in task manager, half the time it refuses to open and I can see it taskmanager, tools as above vanishing, refusing to change fonts, basically it's getting right on my nerves and I have two pc's same issues.

While I have had CC for some time, I like using 5.1 ..but today I loaded all my brushes into CC and I find that the display of the brushes for selection are just too small for me to pick from. I run 3 MacPro's doing modeling, I'm 70 and my eyes are not what they use to be. So I have been searching the net for a prep setting to simply enlarge all the brush icons to something larger like we use to see in 5.1

Each panel in Adobe Photoshop has a wing menu where you can access additional options. If yo go in here and choose Preset Manager. Then when the Preset manager opens, click on the little Gear icon and chose to make the Thumbnails lager. See my screenshots for help with this,

Thanks thangietaylor, but this WOULD be what I wanted if the icons stayed large in the brush settings panel (not just while in Presets). davescm, I thought what Don was asking was for the thumbnails to appear larger (not how to make the brush larger). Its not just about being too old to see the small icons, I'm in my 30's and when you're searching through your brushes, especially some certain detailed textures, it would be A LOT easier if you could just up the size of the thumbnails. C'mon Adobe, let's make this happen.

Go to your Brushes palette, in the drop down menu, unselect Brush Name & Brush Stroke (or whatever you want) and leave Brush Tip selected. Then you can use the slider to enlarge the thumbnails of the brush tips!

I followed your very helpful instructions; thank you for them! However, I still do not have little icons under brushes. This is fairly important to be able to quickly identify each cartography brush. Would you have any advice?

I actually was able to answer my own question! For anyone else who might be new to PS like me, the options in the wing menus are limited in options unless you expand it using the arrow buttons in the top right and then you can press the menu button. The picture might explain it better:

So I have seen that I am not the first one to ask this question, but I have yet to find any true resolutions. I recently bought anew laptop, a Lenovo with a 4K UHD display which I already love for so many things. But, like a few other programs, the high resolution means the icons and menu text of PS CS6 are incredibly small, which may be alright on a TV, but on a laptop screen, it make it incredibly difficult to work. I have tried all sorts of different approaches in Windows, such as changing the OS font sizes and icon sizes, which do indeed change everything else on the computer, but PS is still the same tiny size. I have also increased the text size under the interface preferences to large, but with little real change. I understand why this is happening, but I am hoping that there is some sort of workaround, beyond just bumping down my screen resolution, which defeats the whole purpose of using UHD to edit photos. I have heard rumors of being able to code in some UI changes manually, but have found no concrete examples of how to actually do that.

I am sure that it would not take Adobe too much time and effort to create an update to help with scaling, but they are very set on pushing forward with Creative Clound, leaving the rest of us loyal customers to the dust until we pay up. If anyone has found any resolutions or workarounds, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.

If you have Windows 10, simply go into Program Files\Adobe\Adobe CS6 folder and left-click on the Photoshop CS6.exe file. From the Context menu that opens, go down to the bottom, choose "Properties" and the Properties dialog opens.

After careful consideration, I ultimately felt that the solution wasn't feasible due to it resulting in the overall image in the work file that I had open appearing "fuzzy", skewing my vision of the actual representation of what I was seeing on screen so I opted to upgrade to Adobe PS CC 2017.

Not sure why your reply says "Correct Answer" when it's a repeat of almost everyone else's. It also doesn't fix the issue of the tools being almost microscopic; it only changes the interface/menus and icons. The actual tools on my CS6 are still borked.

This is a little late, but for windows, I found that if you navigate to where the actual application file(.exe) is, right-click it and select properties, choose the compatibility tab and select "Change high dpi settings" under the settings section, in the next window, select the checkbox that says "High DPI scaling override", and choose "System" from the drop-down.-Hit ok to save the changes, and then re-open Photoshop(I've only tested it with photoshop and illustrator). That fixed it for me.

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