Icon trouble

[creator2456]

I know the answer has to be here someplace at MacRumors, but my searching hasn't turned it up.

I have a .psd that I want to make into an icon. I saved it as a .png and it shows in Preview just fine. When I apply it to the app I will be using it for I get a white square background. How do I go about removing this?

 

[kostia]

The transparency comes from the icon's mask. You need to save the file with transparency (an alpha channel). I use Iconographer to create icons; it's simple but it's familiar to a Photoshop user (lots of the same keyboard shortcuts, etc.) and it creates icon files with masks at all the sizes.

 

[illuminous]

Try img2icns. You can download from the Apple downloads site. This program is great. If you save as a .png, it will keep the transparency when making the icon. And it is as simple as a drag and drop.

 

[rhyndu]

If you have Leopard, you can open up the icon, select and hold the select icon (a cut out squareish thing) in the toolbar, select instant alpha

From there, you should hover your mouse over the white background click, drag, and follow the onscreen instructions