ICO Windows Icon file format plugin for Photoshop. Copyright 2. 00. 2 2. Toby Thain, tobytelegraphics. The plugin gives Photoshop the ability to directly Open and Save. Windows icon. ICO and cursor. ICO Windows Icon file format plugin for Photoshop. Copyright 20022011 Toby Thain, tobytelegraphics. The plugin gives Photoshop the ability to directly Open. Best Free Photoshop Alternatives All the best alternatives to Photoshop available to download right now for free plus a few paidfor graphics packages to consider. Download the latest from Windows, Windows Apps, Office, Xbox, Skype, Windows 10, Lumia phone, Edge Internet Explorer, Dev Tools more. CUR files. saving. CUR files is supported by version 2. Download the latest version here. Tested with Photoshop on Mac. Photoshop CS5 on Intel Macintosh 3. Photoshop CS3 CS4 on 3. Intel and Power. PC Macintosh. Photoshop 3. 0 7. CS, CS2 on Power. PC Macintosh OS X, OS 9 and ClassicPhotoshop 4. Mac. OS 8. 0 on 6. K Macintosh. Windows Photoshop 5. Windows 9. 8NT, XP, Vista, and Windows 7. Paint Shop Pro 9 may not work correctly with earlier versions due to PSP plugin compatibility issuesPhotoshop Elements Mac US7. Win US8. 9. 9. 9. Prices at time of writingFree software donation suggested. This program is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. If you use this program and like it, please donate what you think it is worth US5 suggested. The program is fully supported. Please contact the author with any bug reports, suggestions or comments. To install. 64 bit Windows VistaWindows 7 Restart before installing put plugin in C Program FilesAdobePhotoshop Plug InsFile Formats. If you are running on a 6. Windows system and are launching. Photoshop CS4 or CS5. Plug Ins folder corresponding to 6. US/windows/powerpaint/large/powerpaint-9.jpg' alt='Photoshop For Windows 98 Free Download' title='Photoshop For Windows 98 Free Download' />Photoshop. Program Files not Program Files x. Move the plugin into the File Formats folder. Photoshop Plugins folder For Windows 3. ICOFormat. 8bi. For Windows 6. ICOFormat. 64. 8bi. For Mac OS X, ICOFormat. CS2, CS34 and CS5For Mac OS XClassic, icoformat. For 6. 8K Mac. OS, icoformat6. Free-Icon-Editor-w800.jpg' alt='Photoshop For Windows 98 Free Download' title='Photoshop For Windows 98 Free Download' />KIf using Corel PSP Photo X2, put the plugin in. C Program FilesCorelCorel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2LanguagesENPlug. Ins. Quit and relaunch Photoshop, if its already running. To use the plugin. Use Photoshops Open command File menu to open. ICO and. CUR files which will now appear. Use Photoshops Save command to create. Crack File Of Gta 4 For Free Download. ICO and. CUR files. If saving. CUR, note that the cursor hotspot is defined by the. Having trouble If you are not sure if the plugin is correctly installed, look for ICO Windows Icon. Photoshops About Plug in menu on Windows, look under Help on OS X, under Photoshop. If it is not listed. WindowsMacis it in the File Formats subdirectory of Photoshops Plugins folder Photoshop If you are running Vista and see the error plugin entry point not found. The plugin is not a Filter or ImportExport plugin, so dont look for it there. It appears as a format option when Opening or Saving eligible images. The ICO format does not allow images more than 2. Only Bitmap, Grey Scale, Indexed and RGB mode images, no more than 8 bits per channel. ICO. Using Windows. If you see messages about Assertion Failed, please download this. Thanks to Qwerky for pointing out this issue. Features. Reads and writes. ICO and. CUR files of 1,4,8 bits as Indexed mode. RGB mode. If an input file contains multiple icons, a dialog box prompts to select one. Files created by the plugin contain a single icon or cursor only. To create suites of icons of multiple sizes andor colour depths. In version 1. 7 and later, when saving an icon, it is possible to save in either standard ICO. PNG Vista compressed formats. The latter format is less compatible with other software. How to add a favourites icon favicon, favicon. Create the file named favicon. ICO format, if asked when saving by version 1. Put it at the root level. If you want Internet Explorer to recognise it, it must be 1. Put a tag as follows in the lt HEAD. HEAD section of your top level HTML page home page. LINK RELSHORTCUT ICON HREFfavicon. More references. About transparency. The ICO format has an inherent 1 bit transparency mask 0 opaque, 1 transparent, called the AND bitmap. When reading or saving an RGB mode image in Photoshop 6. If the image is Indexed mode, and uses a transparent index, this will be used to set the icon mask. In other cases, the ICO mask is treated as an alpha channel black 0 opaque, white 2. In PNG Vista format icons, the alpha channel is simply stored as part of the PNG. There is no separate mask. Saving indexed mode images. To ensure output files are as compact as possible, the smallest pixel depth is chosen. RGB mode no colour table. IndexedGrey Scale mode with 1. IndexedGrey Scale mode with 2 colours 4 bits per pixel up to 1. Bitmap or IndexedGrey Scale mode with 2 or fewer colours 1 bit per pixel up to 2 colours in colour tableA note on file sizes Mac only. Do not be alarmed if the Mac Finder shows an unexpectedly large file size for ICO files saved out of Photoshop. The ICO itself is stored in the data fork and is as small as possible see above. The Finders size calculation is increased by Photoshops prolific metadata in the resource fork. ICO data. This is stored for all files saved out of Photoshop. Preferences. Finders K size is also affected by the volumes minimum allocation size often 4 or 8. K depending on partition size. On upload to a web site, the data fork alone is copied and the resource fork is stripped, and so this extra data. Finders padded figure has no effect or relevance whatsoever. The true logical size of the ICO file. OS Xs Terminal with ls l in the icons directory or files x br in MPW Shell. The plugin can create 3. This will occur in two cases. Photoshop 6. 0 or later, saving a layered RGB image i. Photoshop, saving a flat RGB image with 2 or more alpha channels. In the first case, the layer transparency will be used as the ICO alpha. The 1 bit AND mask is taken from the first alpha channel, or if there is no available alpha channel. In the second case, the first alpha channel is used to create the 1 bit AND mask. ICO alpha. In both cases, the colour data is set to zero black where the icon is transparent. This should produce the desired result complete transparency over the background. Still confused, or having trouble Dont hesitate to write to us.