Generating a FAVICON (.ICO) file with Adobe Photoshop CS5, CS6, and CC (Creative Cloud) requires a simple plugin.
Download the CS5/CS6 version of the ICO Format plugin from here: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/ICOFormat#icoformat
You’re looking for this (or something newer):
Open the DMG file you have downloaded.
Install the .plugin file from the DMG, by copying it to the following folder:
/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC/Plug-ins/
(Replace CC with CS6 or CS5 if that’s the version of Photoshop you have)
Start or restart Photoshop.
Create your image. Make sure it is a perfect square, and resize it to a maximum of 256×256 pixels BEFORE you try to save it as an .ICO file. If you’re making a FAV ICON for a web page you’d normally go with 16×16 or 32×32 pixels.
Do a Save As… in Photoshop. Select the file format as ICO.
You now have a FAVICON in .ICO format.
Thank you very much Jonathan! Keep up the good work 😉
Funny, Photoshop claims to play an important role in the webdesign process. Fireworks ist ceased. But still PS is not able to save a favicon. Also always good for a good laugh: the copy to CSS – “function”.
I used plugins earlier, but by changing computers they tend to get lost. Nowadays I use an online service like convertico.com. Since PSD isn’t able to save PNGs small enough for a reasonable use on a website I need online services, such as tinypng.org anyway.
Worked EXCELLENTLY
CS6 on mac
thanks
Janio
Thank you… I got it to work… Adobe should just add that option directly as whenever I create a new version of Photoshop I have to figure out the best plugin to use…
You forgot an important part /Plug-ins/File Formats!
The .ico save format also will NOT show unless it’s a perfect square, so that can make you think it didn’t install properly when you’re checking to see if it’s there.
I can not get this to work on either of my imacs using Photoshop CC. Not sure why.. I have used this plug many times in the past on my pcs and it worked great. When I try to save using Mac with most recent OSX and Photoshop CC, I get the following error every time.. “Could not save a copy as “favicon.ico” because the file was not found.”
thank you very much! it works great 🙂