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How do I do this with IconBuilder?

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From: Michael Glenn
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:44
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Occasionally I have a need to use "grab" to make some icons for an app.   
But I am having trouble trying to do some things I used to with icon.app.   
I've heard some people praise IconBuilder, and would like their help in  
getting me back in business.

Usually I want to "grab" a small image on the screen, then change the  
color that was in the background (usually white or gray) to totally  
transparent, and then spruce up the remaining image dot by dot, adding  
color, etc. (for example, I recently wanted the treble/bass cleff music  
symbols for an app, so I "grab"ed the postscrip display that was made with  
musictex.  Then wanted to change all the white to transparent, and the  
remaining black to blue...)

Here is how I would have proceeded with icon.app.  I would command-A to  
select the entire image, then "replace" white with transparent, and drop  
the marquee down.  Then I'd again select all, fill the marquee with blue,  
set the compositing mode to satop, and drop...  (then go in and fix up the  
dot by dot bits to make it pretty...)

Any help would be appreciated...

Michael.Glenn@dartmouth.edu (NeXTMail ok)
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From: fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn)
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Subject: How do I do this with IconBuilder?
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