I know you can set "the small icon" with ARPPRODUCTICON, but how do I set the bigger one (in the details panel)?
Right now Windows takes the same icon as ARPPRODUCTICON and re-sizes it, but this looks really bad.
The Wix installer has 2 different icons too, so it must be possible:
http://i.imgur.com/r7DpFN3.png
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With IlirB's answer I created an Icon pack (.icl) and used that in Wix. Now Programs and Features picks the correct sizes automatically. This site suggests the following sizes: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, 256x256 http://www.visualpharm.com/articles/icon_sizes.html
A single .ico file can have multiple sizes/dimensions of an icon.
I use IcoFX Portable (Google for it), create a new .ico add the icon that is large enough (256x256) then I create smaller variants of from it e.g. 256x256 + 128x128 + 48x48 + 32x32 + 24x24 + 16x16.
This way the icon will scale where necessary and look good.
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I have bought graphics from a graphics designer. He gave me a psd file with buttons and logos all in the same file. In the file there is a specific button I want to use for my project. How would I export only the button portion of the file to a png or jpeg?
using the eyeball toggle buttons on the right-hand panel, hide all elements you don't want
then go file > save as
give it a name and type of file you want to save as
What you can do in order to get just the single button or logo is something like what Miles said, but that might leave you with some extra blank space that you don't want.
Turn off all layers you don't want to save.
Select the crop tool and crop exactly what you want to save.
File - > Save for Web - > Select PNG or JPG and all other settings
Hope this helped!
here a little contribution :
calibrate your screen, check your color profile, turn you image in RGB mode or Grayscale (8 or 16 bit). ;)
Turn off layer you don't want to save, on windows shortcut "ALT+ left click" on layer eye you want to keep.
trim layer with menu/image/trim... Transparent Pixels
File / Save for Web / Select PNG-8 check transparency, click "Save..." choose a name and save button.
You can use shortcut for do it much more faster.
Of course you can make a Scripts in Scripts panel for repeat this action many times.
You can use free extension like cutandslice.me for export to different device in one shot.
Best wish.
How do I convert Adobe Photoshop points to pixels in CSS?
My font size is 48pt, how does that convert to pixels?
Also, are there tools that help convert photoshop psds into CSS/Html?
You can use points to declare the size of your text in css if you like, there's no need to convert. That way if your photoshop file is set up for 72ppi, you see the same size of font in both photoshop and web.
If you building mobile thou, sizes work differently. Than the best thing is to look for a guide, depending on which devices you're building for.
I believe there isn't a tool to convert photoshop pds into css/html. Although, Zeplin may helps. Zeplin is a tool to easily export assets and make guidelines for projects, but it also helps you create a css file from your screen. https://zeplin.io/ It's really nice!
If your Photoshop document is 72pixels per inch (the standard of the web). 1px = pt.
OSX renders 72 ppi (dpi), windows renders bitmaps at 96 ppi (dpi). Knowing the 72ppi or 96ppi numbers can help you work out what's going on.
Photoshop will alter the Text Point size depending on what the image ppi is set to.
However, with today's high pixel density displays the whole dpi to ppi is something of a fudge. Wikipedia has a good, but dated, article on pixels (screens) vs dots (print)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch
The guide for Windows Phone 8 app bars states that AppBar button icons should be 48x48px. It also says that a bunch of sample icons can be found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0\Icons.
But the images in there are 76x76px. And they work fine, at least on the emulator they do.
So what's the proper size?
So what's the proper size?
76x76, because then you support higher resolutions. If you use 48x48, it'll be scaled up for WXGA and 720p, rather than down (for WVGA), with the quality being slightly worse.
The factor is roughly 1.6, which is the same as for the Tile Sizes
And to prove the point, here's our application, using 76x76 application icons: Skype | Windows Phone Store
They are 48x48px as the people above have said, but the 76x76px ones you are seeing are for devices with a different screen size from that set by Visual Studio as default.
If you are looking for any additional icons do check out Templarian's open-sourced icon project http://modernuiicons.com/. The .zip includes light and dark themes icons as well as the initial Expressions Blend .design file and the .xaml coding of the icon.
They have to be a minimum of 48x48, you can have a bigger (square) size and it will scale down accordingly.
I have a vb.net 2008 application which has its corresponding icon.
The icon shows correctly except in the taskbar when the "small icon" setting is on.
My vb.net project includes a .ico file which when I see in the IDE includes 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64 and 256x256 bitmaps, in 4, 24 and 32 bits, also 3 .png images in 256x256 32 bits each.
I made the icon myself simply using a 64x64 bitmap and then converting it to .ico, and assigning it to the application in the project properties. I thought windows would use and escalate the corresponding image, it shows even in the file explorer properly in the small icon form, but not in the taskbar.
What's going on or what do I need to do? I'm not very familiar with this. Thanks...
You need to have the correct size/bit-depth version in your icon file for whatever context WinForms wanted (e.g. the form's title bar icon, the system tray icon, the taskbar
icon, or the desktop shortcut icon) to insure it will work. You have to maintain the transparency too.
Read the following article.
I have a number of .ico files in my installer that have various renderings for different palette depths, sizes, etc. These display on the MSI's UI rather than being a part of the installation process.
Unfortunately, each of these icon files are displaying the 4-bit palette depth version, which looks a bit rubbish. Is there a way to get the icons to display at the full 8-bit palette?
8-bit icons are unsupported in Windows Installer. I got around the problem by having the 4-bit icons re-drawn so they looked better in the lower colour palette.
Why not delete the 4 bit version from the icon and keep only the 8 bit one version?