How can I create a favicon with Photoshop CS3

Posted: 08:49 July 7, 2008
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Well I just put together the template for another site there at the weekend and all it was missing was a favicon. Now I’d installed a plugin on my windows machine but I’ve recently moved over to a Mac so I had to go searching again for a plugin to create .ico files. A bit of trial and error on a few different plugins and I came across one from Telegraphics that does the job. Get the Mac CS3 version obviously if you’re running CS3.

Follow the instructions on the dmg (basically copy the plugin into your /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Plugins/File Types/ folder

Launch up photoshop … and you’ll now be able to save your file as a .ico and use it on all your websites.

It truely surprises me the amount of sites that don’t go to the bother of creating these and that use the Joomla default one. If you’re not going to use one … at least don’t use the joomla one :D

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7 Responses to “How can I create a favicon with Photoshop CS3”

  1. paul GERMANY on July 7th, 2008 11:04 am

    Good tip. I always use the online ones, like http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ and I’ve found them pretty good.

    paul

  2. James IRELAND on July 7th, 2008 11:17 am

    Handy as well if I’m without photoshop. Personally I like being able to fix up the image to my liking first and not just having a directly scaled down version. That said I’ve used those sites in the past for a load of sites and the icons they generate are quite cool. There was also a free icon generater I was using on windows … but now I’ve no need for a free one.

  3. Jennifer IRELAND on July 8th, 2008 12:53 pm

    Hi James

    Good tip thanks. I hadn’t seen that before and was just uploading gifs to online favicon creators. This will save time.

  4. James IRELAND on July 8th, 2008 1:18 pm

    glad to be able to give something back to the masters :) stay tuned for more :D

  5. Michele IRELAND on July 8th, 2008 7:05 pm

    Aren’t there any favicon creators for the Mac?

  6. James IRELAND on July 8th, 2008 8:49 pm

    There probably are and I’ll investigate at another time but I really do like just having the one graphics package that does what I need it to do :)

    Also having spent what I did on it … I want to get the most out of this and not have to buy another package for 20 or 50 dollars

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