Announcing the immediate release of IconBuilder 8.5.3 for use with Adobe Photoshop and Mac OS X. This latest update to our professional Photoshop & Fireworks filter for creating icons on the Macintosh, now fully supports large format (1024×1024) ICNS files displayed in Apple’s latest operating system – Lion. Designers & developers running Lion can now […]

Announcing the immediate release of IconBuilder 8.5.2 for use with Adobe Photoshop and Mac OS X. This latest update to our professional Photoshop & Fireworks filter for creating icons on the Macintosh, now fully supports Apple’s latest operating system. A number of problems have been addressed in this latest release: Fixed a crash on 10.6 […]

As we all eagerly await a shiny new version of Mac OS X, we need to let you know about some potential issues with our popular tool for building icons for both Mac and Windows. One of the many improvements in Snow Leopard is the way that images are managed internally. Since IconBuilder accesses these […]

Announcing an important update to our professional Photoshop filter for creating icons on the Mac, IconBuilder. Version 8.5.1 fixes several bugs including creating open/drop folder icons on Intel based Macs and support for saving both compressed and uncompressed Vista icons simultaneously. The update is free to registered users of IconBuilder and available now from the […]

Announcing the immediate release of IconBuilder 8.5 for Mac OS X. This latest update to our professional Photoshop & Fireworks filter for creating icons on the Macintosh, now fully supports Adobe’s new CS3 set of tools. The filter’s architecture has been re-engineered from the ground up in Xcode to take advantage of CS3’s new plug-in […]

My previous post on Resolution Independence for Developers has received some criticism. To begin with, I’d suggest that people read our initial post after WWDC—we do all our design work with vectors and recommend that method to others. We’re not trying to hold onto established bitmap formats; our workflow would be much simpler if we […]

The Iconfactory is pleased to offer a significant upgrade to IconBuilder, our powerful and flexible icon construction filter for Photoshop and Fireworks. Version 8.1 adds full support for building Windows Vista icons including updated grid files and Photoshop actions. It also includes support for larger icon sizes in Mac OS X, multiple resolution TIFF files […]

Over the past few days, a discussion about resolution independence in Mac OS X has started on some of the developer blogs we follow. The whole thing started with Resolution Independent Fever by Daniel Jalkut. Sven-S. Porst followed up with a more user centric view of the situation. Although we’ve touched on some of the […]

We were pleased as punch to read a review about IconBuilder 8.0 over at Creative Mac and hope you enjoy the read too! Also, lots of news links for further weekend reading. Don’t forget to let us post your news! So let us know about your new font, your Mac or design related podcast or […]

After more than a week of shake-down time, we are pleased to announce that IconBuilder has been updated to version 8.0.1. This latest release squashes a bug relating to Japanese systems and another with Photoshop palette problems. It also adds small features regarding marquee creation and duplicate resource checking. This update is recommended and is […]