Dock icon pack

twopeak · Post by **twopeak** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:49 pm

Hello

I made a dock icon pack with the adium ducky that changes color according to the state.

First of all, is there a way to make an invisible state? that would be nice... I made a ducky that only has borders, and the color is transparent, so it would look coooooool !!!
I added it to the plist file, but it's not working (I could have guessed that)

Second, I made the icons of the high quality icon. I made the backgrounds transparant, but in the dock itself the invisible comes out as black!!!
I guess that has something to do about the ways I saved it (png), but I don't know what.
Could anybody tell me what's going wrong? and most of all how to fix it?

Third, I used "Replace color" to change the color. it doesn't look that good. okay, they're different colors, but the colors are really bad. what can I do to make it better?

I'm making my first steps with photoshop, so please explain slowly ;-)

Thank you

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:26 pm

I would say use .pngs for transparency.

Also, use the bundled colored Adiumies so that there is no color change.

Another way is to change the Hue.

twopeak · Post by **twopeak** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:47 pm

I found the solution for the transparancy of dock icons, if I do save for web and save in png 24 I get the right transparancy...

And devs: will there be an invisible status for dock icons? I would like this, because then I can see my invisible ducky in action! ;-)

Geckoman70 · Post by **Geckoman70** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:53 am

pondering if anyone out there would do me the favour of making a princess leia duck icon, for those who havent seen my screen shots for a star wars set, i got a bunch of lightsabers for status icons...

now im exploring further with the rest of the status icons, ie; message incoming, message waiting etc....

I've tried altering a duck myself, but it comes out looking terrible....

so if there's anyone good hearted enough to make a duck with buns for ears, id be extremely greatful

thanks heaps

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:04 am

i dont know if youve seen this already but psiona made some nice starwars ducks (not dock icons thou) maybe you could use those to get started
http://homepage.mac.com/psiona/

Geckoman70 · Post by **Geckoman70** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:21 am

aye aye, thanks for that, I have seen the duck icons there, only im specificly looking for a princess leia, and sadly my graphic skills are pretty poorly, so I havent had much luck altering one .....thanks anyway

Geckoman70 · Post by **Geckoman70** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:47 am

everythings cool, i finaly did a search for 'duck' instead of 'ducks' and found exactly what i was looking for! cheers everybody