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Article #1308How do I do this with IconBuilder?
From: Michael Glenn
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:44
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!rpi!bu.edu!dartvax!news From: fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Subject: How do I do this with IconBuilder? Message-ID: <1992Nov15.234450.7928@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Date: 15 Nov 92 23:44:50 GMT Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 23