gizzer

I sort of get that part. The trickier bit for me is then to easily get the new icons back from the image. For example; I could paste these buttons on so the transparency worked. but once done, can I crease some kind of template to cut the buttons back out without manually cutting each? I's like to be able to just slot a different background layer in, and just cut all the same buttons out again?

Hi, I have a application which will not support transparent icon images, so I need to draw the images over the background in a painting app (that does support transparent icons, like this) and then cut the icon out of that image with the background included. I need to do this for 2 different icons, the on and off state of the button. This seem able to be done but seems a very fiddly time consuming ask, dreading it! lol Are there any tools to aid this process? like defining how you want the image sliced? So the process would be; paste background. paste icons. arrange icons (not by hand, so on/off line up) Apply slide up That's just as example. I don't really know how to do this best so hoping for an expert to advise best workflow to save a lot of time. I need to do lots of these!!