Free Photoshop Icon Plugin by Sibcode

One of the missing feature of Adobe Photoshop is, it has no option to save files as .ICO or icon files. Unless you save the file as bitmap (.bmp) image first and then rename it to .ico. However that can creates a problem with icon backgrounds occasionally. But now you can make, edit and save icon files within Photoshop with Free Icon Plugin by Sibcode.

Icon Plugin for Photoshop enhances Adobe Photoshop with an ability to export and import Windows icons (.ico). The Icon Plugin is a small (~ 700 k) Photoshop extension. it lets you export or save image files as icon or .ICO files, fully compatible with Windows XP. This plugin supports a wide range of features including multi-format icons, transparency and semi-transparency. The icons created can also be made Windows Vista compatible from the icon creation dialogue by enabling .png compression. It also supports non-standard icons of different sizes, colors and resolutions, including monochrome, 16 colors, 256 colors, 24-bit True Color, and 32-bit True Color with semi-transparency. The users also have the handy option to add/remove sub-icons from the root icon file.

Icon Plugin is compatible with many front running image or graphics editors like Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe AfterEffects, Adobe Premiere, PhotoDeluxe, Corel PhotoPaint, PaintShop Pro, Painter, and Photo. As for OS compatibility, for the time being, this plugin goes fine with Windows but no MAC and Linux support. The plugin is a freeware and comes compressed in a zip file. The installation instructions are available in a read me.txt file inside the package.

Download: Sibcode Photoshop Icon Plugin

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