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Jonas_P-NuZHXv
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April 13, 2011
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Creating icon - .ico Plugin

  • April 13, 2011
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Hello, I have found some third party plugins to save .icon extension in photoshop.

Doesn't Adobe have a solution? Else, where do I find the most proven and reliable .ico plugin.

We are using CS4, both on Windows XP 32bit and Windows 7 64bit computers.

Edit: Is this recommended http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

/Jonas

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    fototip85
    Participant
    April 13, 2011

    Copy this plugin - http://fast.karelia.ru/nlimMxC/ in directory Plug-ins

    as you can and save and edit .ico

    Jon-M-Spear
    Jon-M-Spear
    Legend
    April 13, 2011

    Not sure about CS4, but CS5 provides a .ico save option.

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    April 13, 2011

    J-MS wrote:

    Not sure about CS4, but CS5 provides a .ico save option.

    I don't believe it does, J-MS.  You must have installed a 3rd party plug-in to get that.

    -Noel

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    April 15, 2011

    Noel Carboni wrote:

    J-MS wrote:

    Not sure about CS4, but CS5 provides a .ico save option.

    I don't believe it does, J-MS.  You must have installed a 3rd party plug-in to get that.

    -Noel

    You sure? Even on my CS3 I can save to .ico via file > save as ...  (and I don't remember installign a plugin)


    I'm sure.  No PC version of Photoshop (Standard) I have ever had has ever supported directly writing .ico files out of the box, and I've had all the versions since 3.x with the exception of 7.0.

    Look in your 32 bit plug-ins folders (e.g., "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Plug-ins\File Formats" or "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Plug-ins\File Formats") to see if you have any .8BI file that starts with the characters "Ico" or similar.  Assuming you find such a file, look at the date.  Does it match the dates of the other .8BI files in there?

    There have been 3rd party .ico file saving plug-ins (which never seemed to work very well) since way back.  Most were just a "copy this .8BI file into the plug-ins folder and restart Photoshop" kinds of installs.

    I ended up solving my own icon creation needs with a free program provided with Microsoft Visual Studio called Axialis Icon Workshop.

    -Noel

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