Icon Color Mapping in Snow Leopard – Interesting Issue
Seems with Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) there's an issue with the color mapping of icons. Specifically, icons made on 10.6 with Photoshop, saved to a file and then loaded into Icon Composer. The Panic Guys have figured this out.
Seems when exporting (using 'Save for Web') in Photoshop, you need to set the 'Destination Space' in the color profile to "Generic RGB Profile", and then export the artwork as a Generic RGB .png file, which can then be loaded up in Icon Composer and everything will be OK.
I say 'everything', but in fact, the icon will now look dark on 10.5 because of the exact same reason. Can't please everyone.