XO-RaCEr Posted January 20, 2002 Share Posted January 20, 2002 i thought i've seen the tutorial written by someone about converting mac icons to xp icons...but i just can't find it anymore... have anyone seen it??? or can you rewrite it?? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted January 21, 2002 Share Posted January 21, 2002 your going to need stuffit expander http://www.stuffit.com/downloads.html and iconshop 1.20 http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Download.htm look in the iconshops help for the cross platform setting for the stuffit expander which should be something like this copy and past form icon shop help file Select View/Options to get the Options dialog. If the button next to the OK button reads More press on it. Three more tabs appear. Select the Cross Platform tab. Set the following options: 1.Convert text files to Windows format: Never 2.Save Macintosh files in MacBinary format: Always 3.Modification of file extensions?: Never Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XO-RaCEr Posted January 21, 2002 Author Share Posted January 21, 2002 i got & install those 2 progs ...then i used stuffitEX to extract of of the icons from the .sit file...then i'm stuck....what do i do next??? i tried to drag the extracted file to iconshop but nothing happend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted January 21, 2002 Share Posted January 21, 2002 just drop the folder on iconshop then export an icon as a ico, or the whole folder as an ICL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorcho Posted January 21, 2002 Share Posted January 21, 2002 wrote this a long long time ago, but i guess people forgot about it. just a cut and paste job from one of the read me files i wrote - first off, you need to download stuffit expander - http://www.stuffit.com second, you need Iconshop - http://users.pandora.be/liontech/ after that's done. you'll want to set Stuffit-Expander to expand the files while keeping the resource fork intact (major-league important). for that, go into the program's options and, err, this is too much to type. go here - ?www.virtualplastic.org/html/col_mac1.html to set up Stuffit to handle that. as for converting. you'll want to change one thing in iconshop before you get perfect conversions. first off, most iconsets do not include 48x48 (and none include 64x64 and 72x72). this is rectified by using Iconshop (see above link) and exporting the icons as .tiff files (which preserve transparency). using your favorite graphics editor (photoshop and paintshop pro 7 are great for different reasons that i'll get into later), you can downsample the huge 128x128 icon to both 64x64 and 72x72 sizes and save the resulting .tiff using different file names. after that's done, import the two new .tiff files into iconshop along with the old 128x128 icon (just drag it into the program's window). go to 'all formats' from the pulldown box and select them all. right click your mouse and choose 'join' and tada - all the graphics are merged into one icon containing multiple sizes. several huge notes though. if your image has any major alphablending (shadows, quasi-reflections), you'll have to change the default transparency export color in Iconshop. leaving it at the default pink will result into shadows turning into 'halos' in dark backgrounds and reflections appearing, well, pink. i use a very dark shade of blue (RGB value of 0,0,4) to preserve the alpha mask while not washing out the image much. second note - between photoshop 6 (ps6) and paintshop pro 7 (psp7), you have a give and take on both. ps6 produces horrible downsampling routines compared to psp7, which uses something called 'smart size' which produces amazingly detailed downsamples. but, ps6 has the abilities to create macro-like applications called droplets, which will drastically cut conversion times in half. you set up an 'action' (basically a script) that will downsample X files into you icon sizes and automatically save them in different file names (like x1.tiff, x2.tiff). choose your poison if you have both. personally, i create 64x64 and 72x72 using droplets in ps6, and use ps7 by hand to tweak 48x48 and lower icons (if necessairy). it's a pain in the butt, but everything comes looking amazing this way. btw, if you have to convert any icons to 48x48 and lower, you might want to sharpen the graphic/icon using the sharpen filter. test to see how it looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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