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I generally use Irfanview to make my.ico files, but I do have Photoshop and can download the plug-in if necessary.
I can not see why you would want the favicon to be transparent. The favicon sits on a white background in the address window, so why not just have a white background?
Just curious.
Also, I don't think this is possible. When saving as a .ico in Photoshop, transparency is not an option, usually this means that that the specs for .ico do not allow for it.
Save your 16x16 and a 64x64 icon as png-24 files with transparency on in Photoshop. Then I uploaded them into the program (I can't remember which) and it stored both formats. The reason to have both is so that when it is dragged to the desktop, your icon shows up in the 64x64 format, but in the URL bar it shows up 16x16. I hope this helps.
The favicon sits on a white background in the address window, so why not just have a white background?
It also sits on system background (often gray, but can be custom) in the bookmark list and on the tab in some tabbed browsers.
I can not see why you would want the favicon to be transparent.
As Tedster says, it's also on tabs and such. The only reason I noticed this was in Firefox, where I have a theme installed, and the favicons have a noticable white background. So I got to thinking it would be cool if they could be transparent.
The reason to have both is so that when it is dragged to the desktop, your icon shows up in the 64x64 format, but in the URL bar it shows up 16x16.
Wow, I didn't even know you could drag the favicon to the desktop! Thanks for that :)
For a start it doesn't support importing PNG files. It does support GIF though, and supposedly it has alpha channel support but when I import my GIF with alpha transparency the transparency is lost. Then it does seem to let me choose a transparent color, which I understand as index transparency, and as my icon has white in it, this isn't really going to work :(
Can anyone recommend anything better?
Also, is 64x64 actually the correct size for a desktop icon? It looks a little big?
its free too
Gifs support birary transparancy, it is either transparent or not, whereas a png-24 will allow a pixel to be really transparent or hardly transparent and anything in between. If you are crafty you can use optical illusions to make it look good, but if you are using shadows or curves to any extent it needs to be a png.
Try to select all in photoshop and ctrl-c then ctrl-v into your program, if that does not work, then try another program. Photoshop .ico plugin cannot make transparent icons.
64x64 is too big, it should be 32x32, I got my powers of two wrong.
It creates transparent background favicons. Free.
Any other suggestions anyone?
I've had varying success with it, sometimes the icons turn out great, others, not so much. Worth a try though.
