If you ask me-and since you’re reading this you’re essentially asking me-anything you can do to be a good citizen of the web and a kind steward of your visitors’ time and attention is worthwhile.

So while having a custom icon may not directly affect your SEO, it has a positive effect in the same way any efforts to make your site more useful and pleasing to your visitor does. Here is a tutorial on how to use LUTS and how to add them to the menus in Photoshop. Watch the video to see all the steps and an explanation of what’s going on. Choose Files>Export>Color Look Up Tables. Making it easier for your visitor to spot you and navigate to your site is a good thing. Create some adjustment layers on your image. (Want a cherry on top? Do a nice thing for your visitors and you create a positive impression and association. Let’s make this simple-make it easier to find and deal with your site and you’re doing a nice thing for your visitors. Your favicon makes it easier to spot your website, saving search time and effort. So read the paragraph above again, and take that message in. Overlook this detail and you not only miss an opportunity to fully brand your site-it’s also a little like sending a resume with a typo. And you are going to show up as the unique person you are-one with good judgement and care for the details-with a personalized, professional, and appropriately branded favicon. Smart Object 1: Transparent Background Icon Smart Object 2: Solid Fill Icon You need to edit each of these two Smart Objects in order to create a complete set. One for the favicon variants that need a transparent background and one for the favicon variants that work best with a solid background. You’re an interesting human, doing great things for other interesting humans. In the artboard named ‘Created Your Icons’ there are two Smart Objects.

Sure, if your magic special brand-sauce just so happens to be “generic grey box”, you can just skip right on past this section. I’m guessing-and hoping-that you don’t judge a generic default grey box to be the best visual to stand in as your brand rep in the browser.

How to make a favicon in photoshop 2017