I've been asked to create an ico file by a client for a product they are developing. They have one ico file already which is blue and they want the new one to be orange. So I created a new file in photoshop that replicated the original and then used the photoshop plugin to create the ico file. But when used on the desktop my ico file looks totally crap...see the following example:

 

 

Why has mine got a crappy pixelated border and crap drop shadow - the file looks great in photoshop but as soon as it's converted to ico format it looks crap.

 

How do you create lovely icons like their original?

 

I also tried using the online tool - http://www.favicon.cc and that made something even worse!

 

Any help in this would be much appreciated as I'd like to give my client something that resemebles his original.

 

Cheers

 

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Try something like icon edit, just save your image as a square png/gif file and import it, then try to do it. It might convert it to an ico file.

 

http://www.iconedit2.com/?gclid=CKyx_tWB8pYCFQWJ1QodK1UNYA

thanks for the reply - I just found http://www.sibcode.com/icon-editor/index.htm about ten minutes ago and tried that and got better results. Found out that the original software the client used was called Micro Angelo and they managed to find their copy of it, so are playing around with this themselves as well. So we'll get a good outcome in the end I think.