Re: Resorcerer => Icon Composer
Re: Resorcerer => Icon Composer
- Subject: Re: Resorcerer => Icon Composer
- From: Kurt Bigler <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:53:19 -0700
on 8/19/05 11:00 PM, Cameron Hayne <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 19-Aug-05, at 8:36 PM, Kurt Bigler wrote:
>
>> By using copy/paste from Resorcerer to Icon Composer I have what looks (in
>> Icon Composer) like it should have been a successful transfer of 16x16 and
>> 32x32 application and document icons into .icns files for use in my
>> application bundle.
>>
>> The icon image looks right, the background is white, and the mask looks
>> right, black on white background. Is that the way it is supposed to be?
>
> This article on the O'Reilly site might be of help:
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2001/05/24/aqua_design.html
Yes, thanks that explained it. Namely it clarified that even the 16x16 and
32x32 images are expected to have the alpha channel, and so the "hit" mask
must be literally just that (for hit testing) and not used to form the image
at all.
To get it right I put it through graphic converter as follows:
copy RBB image
in graphic converter:
paste-into-new-document (command-J)
add alpha channel
show alpha channel
copy 1-bit mask image
in graphic converter:
paste
hide alpha channel
save copy as tiff
drag tiff file into icon composer slot and choose to extract mask
Thanks for the pointer.
-Kurt
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