Making .ico files such as favicon.ico with Adobe Photoshop

I used to do the same thing (download and delete). I found a better way though. I got Visual Studio .NET to program and I found out that you can create icons using it! I've made icons in Adobe Photoshop before by renaming files and they end up messed up.

You are the man! I had purchased software to make icons.

Shortly after I enrolled in college (pursuing a Bachelor of Science in web design and multimedia). Adobe PhotoShop CS is a program we have been required to study. I've taken some files edited in Adobe, and transferred them to the Icon software. I'm usually skeptical, but when something is good, it works, and it's an honest deal -- that's something worth talking about! Wow, I am just clean amazed... it works just like you said it would.

Way too cool!

I'm sorry to spoil the fun, but can you make multiple-page .ico files? You know, there's more to .ico than a renamed bitmap. Yet it does save 32-bit icons and my old icon editing software can't (Axalis AX-Icons).

What dimentions do you make favicons?

Well, if you go to the download page of that website you will also see he has an icon "packager" if you will. Basically you can create your 64x64 icon and save it....resize it to 32x32 and save it.....resize it to 24x24 and save it......resize it to 16x16 and save it.....resize it to 8x8 and save it.....and then run the packaging utility to turn it into one single icon! That way you get the best quality regardless of what size it is displayed at, and you have an icon for every used size!

Cheers!

Man paying to create .ico files is just plain wrong. Here we are using Photoshop a package made to create and one cannot make a .ico file until now.

Thanks for the tips and using Visual Studio .Net as well is also a great idea, but I'd prefer Adobe Photoshop.

Great Find! 😁

I remember awhile back I was looking for a photoshop plug-in but I couldn't find one and I ended up at:

https://www.degraeve.com/favicon/

It's a useful site and all, but I didn't want to have to upload my png's all the time. Thanks for that!

Are the icons available on Safari (Mac)?

I did everything, good location and extension stuff but nothing appears. Thanks anyway for the tip
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But how about the Adobe Photoshop CS3?

all versions of Photoshop (3.0-7.0, CS, CS2), under Mac OS X, 9 and earlier, and Windows", except for CS3.

https://old.marcofolio.net/webdesign/how_to_create_a_favicon_for_your_website.html

It obviously has been revised to work with CS3 (sorry I can't test it - have CS2 -- Im really surprised Adobe just didn't incorporate it i CS3)

If you have Adobe Photoshop, you can use this ICO plugin for Photoshop. Download the ICO (Windows Icon) Format and extract the ZIP-archive. Next, put the plug-in called ICOFormat.8bi in the following directory;
C:\Program Files\Adobe**Adobe Photoshop CS3**\Plug-Ins\File Formats\
Now start up Photoshop and create a new file with the width and height of 16 x 16 pixels.
Unleash your designing skills to create the Favicon and when you're done, go to "File", "Save as..." (Shift + Ctrl + S).
Name your file "favicon.ico" and set the format to "ICO (Windows Icon) (*.ICO)".