Need help with App Icon Mask!

[Jacob DePippo]

Ok so im working on a new theme and i cant figure out how to make app icon masks work. Any ideas on how to fix this?

This is what i want it to look like


but it keeps turning out like this


and this is a picture of the AppIconMask, its PNG and 118x120

[dnapro]

Are you saving the mask as a PNG24, I had similar problems before saving the file for web and devices in photoshop?

[Jacob DePippo]

ok I'll try to save it as png24


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[fijea]

I'm also wondering about how the AppIconMask works..
more likely, how to mask an image using another image in Photoshop.

[Q_bAn_b]

I am not an expert by any means but I believe it has to b the original with your effects in order to work then put the image you want to b masked on top the create a clipping mask on that image and it should b good to go. Also the image you posted looks like you hv the shadow attached to it, the mask is just the overlay and the shadow ie the body of the icon falls behind it. So basically have your icon body on the bottom with a black inside where the icon falls, or white if you want the more transparent look. Then your mask, then your icon. Hope I was clear enough.

[Maxner]

You have to make the shadow and the overlay the same shape.

[Jahooba]

I think Maxner has it right. The ApIconShadow has transparent pixels outside the rounded edges. Transparent pixels on top of you image make anything underneath it transparent. Or so my limited experience has told me.