How do you save your icons in Photoshop?. What properties you use when opening a new canvas?. I'm worried this might be the reason that my icons look less shiny and uncoloured, than when I'm making them in PS.
Save for web isn't supposed to fix quality of icons, but to make it a smaller file size. When you save normally, Photoshop may or may not add extra information into the file that isn't needed for web viewing, stuff like thumbnail (i.e. when you're viewing it on your computer), EXIF data (probably not an issue when just working with caps, but may be one if you're taking stock photos and using those stock photos to turn into icons? or something) and various other things which, as mentioned, aren't needed for web viewing.
Case in point, a few months ago I saw an icon I liked, tried to save it to my userpics, but LJ told me it was too big (41kb). I copied it, opened it in photoshop and pasted it on a blank canvas, then saved for web. The resulting image was just over 20kb.
I'm worried this might be the reason that my icons look less shiny and uncoloured, than when I'm making them in PS.
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color profile sRGB IEC61966-2.1
i just hit save as... png, no interlace. dunno if it's not as ~good as saving for web, but i haven't noticed the quality of icons degrade, so meh
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I'm going to try the info you gave me, so thank you so much!
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Case in point, a few months ago I saw an icon I liked, tried to save it to my userpics, but LJ told me it was too big (41kb). I copied it, opened it in photoshop and pasted it on a blank canvas, then saved for web. The resulting image was just over 20kb.
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