Transparent Custom Icons

[JimmerUK]

I've created a custom icon for a folder, all well and good. Problem is it's a circle and therefore has transparencies in the corners. Although I'm copying from photoshop the transparancies don't stay when pasted as an icon, the go white.

Booooo.

Any ideas on how to retain the icon transparency?

 

[Mikuro]

You need a special program to create icons. Apple offers a program called Icon Composer with their developer tools. It lets you drag and drop Photoshop files (or any other image format with embedded transparency data, like PNG) and then create a .icns file. From there, you can convert the icns file to a copy-and-paste-able file icon using a third-party app like IconDroplet.

There are also other third-party programs that will do it all. I haven't tried it myself, but you might want to look at FastIcns.