“Ever wondered how to make your own Mac icons? Have you ever created an icon and had trouble making the icons fully transparent? If you answer either of these questions with a yes, then this tutorial is for you,” Tutorial Dog explains.
“To complete this tutorial, you will need Adobe Photoshop (or any other image editor that will export transparent TIFF files), Xcode and CandyBar [US$29] installed on your Mac. Xcode is Apple’s free software development kit. You should be able to install Xcode from your computer’s install disk or download it off Apple’s Website. It’s also important to note that the newest version of Mac OS X, Leopard has moved to a maximum 512 pixel icon sizes. CandyBar allows you to organize your icons,” Tutorial Dog explains.
Full tutorial, including “Designing The Icon,” “Exporting The Icon,” and “Using Icon Composer & CandyBar,” here.
hittin’ and cold hittin’ that
Is this a commercial?
I’m estatic. Count me in! 😀
I really wish Apple would incorporate a nice Icon maker into the OS.
Duh, I just copy and paste. I don’t use transparent icons though, who wants an icon that when you click on part of it it doesn’t work. MDN we can see though this, whappen’, get some ad revenue?
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So why not gimp and X – both are free? Why suggest a solution which takes $$$. Who’s the sponsor here? Alas, me an my FOSS mind.
Galdalf, icons with transparencies look a lot nicer in the dock.
Hey, cut some slack. Many people wonder how to do stuff like this and don’t know where to start. There is often more than one way to skin a cat and this tutorial may be but one way. If you knew zero ways before this article then you are now wiser. If you already have a better way, post your own tutorial on a web site and give us your URL.
Never mind this crap.
Peter Jackson w/ produce 2 new movies based on The Hobbit.
See, I wished real hard, and GOT MY WAY.
Gandalf is a retard.
Multifaceted comments are opaque to posters such as ‘I A Dolt’.
@TheConfuzed1
Very true, however I keep applications in the doc and invariably create icons for image files which remain in folders. So I can maybe appreciate that the functionality is useful for a handful of people but question why this is a story on MDN.
For those who missed it in my earlier comment there is a play on the word ‘transparency’. I thought it was quite easy to see through especially as I included an emoticon.
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Which Includes Free Applications to MAKE icons in Tiger & Leopard. The way it should be. Free.
1) any picture – best when it’s one you took or drew
2) LiveQuartz – to erase the edges – effects – paint whatever
2) Pixer 1.9.6b or img2icns – to make the icons
Because you are all mainly mac people… I think you can figure it out yourselves. But if not… hmmmm maybe I will write one.
Dougless
Icons? We don’t need no steeenkink icons!
@ Spark,
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but with your logic. they can keep telling us about every single product. right? but this is supposed to be a news site not a learning site(MacDaily”News”). but no harm is done. MDN sometimes even put MS ads. so whatever works for them. we just follow
PS. I know, I don’t have to visit MDN
you know, I’m just sayin, if ya drink enough beer, you can see through anything! Now cut the BS….
tower tone, LOL, thanks for making me laugh so hard right before i go to bed. g’nite
I think the motive here is pretty clear.
Can you ever really drink enough beer?
@hmmmm
“News” is relative. If one didn’t know that they could make their own icons for the Mac, this article was news. Often I read an item on MDN that I find interesting only to find a comment posted saying something like, “…old news, I read this 3 days ago.” If this guy had his way MDN wouldn’t have published the article because it was not “news” to him, but I would have lost out. You state, “… this is supposed to be a news site not a learning site(MacDaily”News”).”, yet what MDN published was news that some guy had posted a web page with a tutorial. That is news. Other than a snippet they didn’t publish the tutorial itself.
I posted this on the webpage…
Thanks for the article…
I have one complaint though.
“*Note: you don’t need to pay for CandyBar even though it’s shareware, if you use it for the occasional icon like described in this tutorial.”
Advocating the continual usage of a Shareware application is not proper. If you use a Shareware application regularly you SHOULD pay for it.
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