03-24-2022, 05:55 PM
(03-24-2022, 05:32 PM)rickk Wrote:That is right on...(03-24-2022, 04:57 PM)PapaBear1 Wrote: I have not done that, but I'm also not fully understanding what you're describing. Do you mean exporting that one layer to a file (like a .gif? or .png?) and then doing something with that file? If that is required - it seems like an [unnecessarily] circuitous process - just to take a layer and create an .ico file. I understand .ico files often (should?) have multiple images within them, but it does seem like I should be able to take one layer and say - "...create an .ico from this." So, I'm still unclear on how to do this. It shouldn't be this difficult. ...oh well... I guess I need more specific steps as a newbie - I'm not getting it still.... sorry --- and thanks for the help!
I'm just trying to visualize what you are doing that is producing more information in your exported ico file, than you desire (your comment about the result looking like "a different layer" other than the one you are specifying)
SO, I'm visualizing you having an image comprised of multiple layers, and you are just trying to export one of those layers?
Is that true, or false?
If true, then first Select that layer, then go up to your "edit" menu, select "copy". Then, also in the edit menu, select "paste as" and then "new image"
Creating an autonomous image that you can then export, free of any undesired layers.
If the answer to my question is false, then I'm not understanding your goal properly
I have multiple layers, and I've actually already used the 'New from Visible' to control which layers I want 'together' in yet another layer. So, I have one layer that has what I'm after. I expected to make just THAT layer visible, and then hit export, choose .ico as the extension (...which strangely is not a choice from a list, instead - one must type it in -- kinda strange IMHO...), but anyway - I expected it to then generate the .ico file from that visible layer, or perhaps at least list the layers and let me choose which ones would be in the .ico file - but it never asks - it apparently assumes I want ALL layers in the GIMP file --- which seems unreasonable to me. Even stranger - I've had cases where it showed me a 'preview' of what I would be generating (sometimes, not always - still haven't unwrapped that mystery either...) - but then the file itself -when viewed in file explorer in windows - had some *other* image - from an undesired layer - something other than what was shown in the preview image.
So, the resulting file had the wrong icon for itself in windows explorer, and stranger yet, when I double-clicked on the file - the image was actually right --- really weird. How can its contents be different than what is presented on the screen? Really weird to me. And, as if that wasn't enough, changing the windows file explorer view options among Extra Large, Large, and Medium icons had yet further strange results --- with different things being displayed for each. Wow.
So - I guess - you basically CANNOT create an .ico file directly from the GIMP file that you have done the work in. It seems you have to create some *other* file and then use THAT to create the .ico file. Strange, and inconvenient - especially considering that when I used .tiff - it THEN let me choose the layers to export. Why not just provide that right from the Gimp file? I admit I'm new, but wow - this seems difficult, inconvenient, non-intuitive, and confusing. Thank you for your advice - it has led me to a working process - but good grief - this seems circuitous! Thanks again!