Creating an Icon for my desktop in CS4

[scscop]

I want to use this image as an icon for my desktop

I used the color range tool on the white background to isolate the lips onto a new file in photoshop with a transparent background (checkerboard). But the image still shows up on a white background when I use it as the Icon

HOW DO I GET RID OF THE WHITE?

[showstep]

Image The Best !!

[kiwicolin]

Make it transparent and save as a png

[KRB]

scscop, Welcome to the Café.

As Colin said, make your image transparent and Save As .png file.
I then used Pic2Icon application and simply dragged the .png file into the well.
Volia, you now have a transparent icon.

Pic2Icon 1.3
Freeware
Pic2Icon is a program for turning any picture into an attractive Mac OS X icon with a resolution of 128x128.
Simply run the program, drag and drop the picture file onto the Pic2Icon dock and start creating icons automatically.

http://pic2iconmac.gooofull.com/

Hope that helps.

Kathryn


[Edited on 4/26/2011 by KRB]

[KRB]

Here is another way. (I work on a Mac or should I say Play on a Mac)
I opened the png file in Preview.
Copied.
Then selected a folder or a file.
File>Get Info.
Select the small icon at the top.
Paste.
I now have star icons with transparent background.

Kathryn

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