Creating your own icons can make your Mac stand out from the crowd. For this weeks Mac Daddy Monday post, here is a link from Mac Life by
Adam Berenstain.
Even if you aren’t a professional icon designer, you can still
customize icons with your own creations. In most cases, all you need are
the graphics programs you already have on your Mac.
In iPhoto,
select the thumbnail of the picture you want to use as an icon, then
right-click and select Copy. In the Finder, select the item with an icon
you want to replace, then right-click and choose Get Info. Click the
old icon in the Get Info screen, press Command-V to paste your picture,
and you’re done. For better results, duplicate the picture in iPhoto,
crop it constrained as a square to highlight a face or other cool
detail, then paste that image over the old icon.
She’s ready for her Desktop closeup.
If
you have an image editor like Pixelmator or Photoshop, you can create
your own icons from scratch. Create a new document at a file size of
512x512 and a resolution of 72ppi, then draw your design. When it’s
complete, copy it from the document window, then paste it into the Get
Info window.
Be honest, which icon would you rather click?
But
sometimes pasting doesn’t work. You may need to create an ICNS file to
copy into the Resource folder of a stubborn application that won’t
otherwise accept a new icon. A utility like Img2icns ($12.90,
img2icnsapp.com) can create the necessary file from your custom image, and the trial version even does it for free.
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