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I’ve been working on an icon for my app, and would like to have an outer glow and drop shadow, which will appear transparently over any background in the Finder — as most OS X icons do these days.
But I guess I’m not creating the proper mask for the icon.
I’ve created the icon image in PS, (I’m working in CS2, BTW), made the background transparent, added the drop shadow and outer glow effects, then copied the layer to the clipboard. Here’s the way the original looks in PS:
I’m using Iconographer as my icon creation app. When I paste the clipboard into Iconographer, it appears with a black halo surround the image.
So it looks like what I need to do is select all the transparent pixels somehow behind all the drop shadow and glow effects to create a mask for the Finder to use to create the proper transparency.
I have no idea how to do this.
I have posted both examples and the original .psd file here. <http://dhnet.us/icon_test>
All My Best,
Jeffrey
But I guess I’m not creating the proper mask for the icon.
I’ve created the icon image in PS, (I’m working in CS2, BTW), made the background transparent, added the drop shadow and outer glow effects, then copied the layer to the clipboard. Here’s the way the original looks in PS:
I’m using Iconographer as my icon creation app. When I paste the clipboard into Iconographer, it appears with a black halo surround the image.
So it looks like what I need to do is select all the transparent pixels somehow behind all the drop shadow and glow effects to create a mask for the Finder to use to create the proper transparency.
I have no idea how to do this.
I have posted both examples and the original .psd file here. <http://dhnet.us/icon_test>
All My Best,
Jeffrey
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