Re: Stupid png icons

2011-01-07 Thread WT
On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:38 PM, BareFeetWare wrote: > Is there no dedicated app suitable for producing PNG images with grey level > transparency/alpha, at the various scales needed for iOS apps (as app icons > in-app icons)? Does everyone just resort to GIMP and Photoshop, which seems > overkill a

Re: Stupid png icons

2011-01-07 Thread Dave Camp
On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:38 PM, BareFeetWare wrote: > On 07/01/2011, at 3:04 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote: > >> GraphicConverter doesn't really have the cojones to do what you need done. >> You want something that can use e.g. the greyness of each pixel in the >> original image to determine the greyness

Re: Stupid png icons

2011-01-06 Thread BareFeetWare
On 07/01/2011, at 3:04 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote: > GraphicConverter doesn't really have the cojones to do what you need done. > You want something that can use e.g. the greyness of each pixel in the > original image to determine the greyness of each pixel in the alpha mask. > Photoshop or GIMP wi

Re: Stupid png icons

2011-01-06 Thread Matt Neuburg
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:01:02 -0600, William Squires said: >This is in reference to earlier messages vis-a-vis png icons not displaying >correctly on UITabBarItems. > >It was suggested to make sure the icons have an alpha channel, so I reloaded >them into GraphiConverter, and set it so they would

Re: Stupid png icons

2011-01-05 Thread koko
As I recall you were converting windows bmp files. I believe windows bmp files are RGBA ... the converter you are using may be expecting ARGB On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:05 AM, William Squires wrote: This is in reference to earlier messages vis-a-vis png icons not displaying correctly on UITabB

Stupid png icons

2011-01-05 Thread William Squires
This is in reference to earlier messages vis-a-vis png icons not displaying correctly on UITabBarItems. It was suggested to make sure the icons have an alpha channel, so I reloaded them into GraphiConverter, and set it so they would have an alpha-channel mask, which I then copied from the icon