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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 Author: I’ve been making my own Mac icons for folders, applications, and a myriad of other uses for well over 20 years now. Back then, I was stuck with 256 (or fewer) colors, a black/white alpha channel, and pretty much had to make them pixel by pixel in (uphill both ways barefoot in the snow). Later on, I wound up registering a Developer account with Apple so I could use the icon tools in Xcode (well and for AppleScript Studio, but that’s a different story), and probably tried a half-dozen different freeware or shareware utilities over the years. Some worked well, and others not-so-well.

In an intersting twist, when Apple made icons a little more complex with the addition of Retina icons in OS X 10.7, they actually made the process of creating the icons a lot easier; all you need is a little skill with your favorite graphics program that can create images with transparent backgrounds (such as TIFFs or PNGs), and you can crank out custom icons for custom folders, internal and external drives, or even applications using built-in utilities and features of Lion and later. So if you have: • OS X 10.7.5 Lion or later including macOS High Sierra • a 1024 x 1024 image that you’d like to make into an icon – or the ability to make such an image • a graphics program that can resize your image and export PNG files (If you have your finished image already, you can do this in Preview).

• and the desire to customize your desktop Then you have all you need to make your own custom desktop icons. So let’s get started! Create your base image. Use your favorite image editor (Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP whatever you like) to create a 1024×1024 pixel document with a transparent background and draw/paint/assemble your icon. For this tutorial, I’m going to use Adobe Illustrator to create a real simple circular icon with the Rocket Yard logo inside, mostly because I had the graphic files laying around from another project, so it was quick to put together. Whatever you design is really up to you, but here are a couple of tips that may help make your custom icon look like it came with your system.

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If you’re making a folder or drive icon from scratch, it helps to use the same proportions as an existing system icon. To get a reference image: • Select the item in the Finder you want to reference • Hit Command-I to open the Get Info box • Click on the icon itself so that it’s highlighted. • Hit Command-C to copy the icon • Open up Preview (it’s in your Applications folder) • Hit Command-N to create a new image with the contents of your clipboard (i.e., your reference icon) • Export the image as a PNG with an Alpha channel. This image will now have the same size and transparency as the original, and can now be loaded into its own layer in any graphics editing program that supports them (which should be most of them). If you’re creating an application icon, I highly recommend following when creating your icons.

It’s actually an interesting read no matter what (at least if you’re interested in icons and such). Export a series of PNG files. Once you have your icon looking the way you want it, go ahead and save the file. That’s just for safety’s sake. Now, we need to export ten PNG versions of this image, each with its own size and name. Filename Image Size (in pixels) icon_512x512@2x.png 1024 x 1024 icon_512x512.png 512 x 512 icon_256x256@2x.png 512 x 512 icon_256x256.png 256 x 256 icon_128x128@2x.png 256 x 256 icon_128x128.png 128 x 128 icon_32x32@2x.png 64 x 64 icon_32x32.png 32 x 32 icon_16x16@2x.png 32 x 32 icon_16x16.png 16 x 16 How you go about exporting these image sizes is up to you. The quickest way is to just take the same image and scale it down while exporting.