Seriously, why won’t this just work?!?

So I’m trying to complete this awesome icon set created by Martin Lexow. It’s mostly complete and of very high quality, but I mean there’s no way he can create an icon for ever app out there right? So I decided I wanted to compliment his original package with some icons so that at least my dock would look consistent without having to get rid of commonly used apps from it. Basically I needed a Tweetie icon the most (because it can’t yet only exist on the status menu bar).

My Tweetie icon

Poof! There we go, I drew it up in Ai, imported to Ps, processed it and I end up with a extended macintosh icon set. Except that it refuses to behave properly!!:@ Every time i make the icon file and apply it to my app, something gets screwed. In my dock I get this problem

What's that stupid shadow there for?

I mean come on?!  Who’s taking a slice off the top and making it some stupid shadow at the bottom? And that’s not the only problem; in coverflow it looks like this:

Ok...now who pushed it too far down?

Yes I’m using the correct resolution and down sampling correctly (as far as i can figure out) for all the small sizes. Why’s it all gotta be an asshole to me?  I just want this icon to work….

Help anyone?  Please?


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