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Article:		Creating Photorealistic Icons for Mac OS X
Subject:		need help on project builder step in icon process
Date:		2003-10-16 10:37:13
From:		anonymous2
Response to: need help on project builder step in icon process
I too am trying to create a new icon for a folder. I have used the "get info" option and pasted in the psd file over the folder icon but that just renders a white square with the icon in the middle. *shrug* sorry for the rookie question

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• need help on project builder step in icon process
  2003-11-06 09:01:29  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Open your Folder's "Get Info", open your icon. Select the Icon and "Copy" it onto the clipboard. Select the icon in the folder's info panel, then use the "Edit->Paste" menu.
  
  voila
  
• need help on project builder step in icon process
  2003-11-06 09:02:31  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Sorry, I forgot that it must be a icns file, so setup your icon in Icon Composer and then copy it from there, not from the original PSD.
  
• need help on project builder step in icon process
  2004-01-20 11:11:54  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  How do you copy from Icon Composer? My copy/cut/paste are grayed out. Thanks.
• need help on project builder step in icon process
  2004-01-20 11:34:58  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  There's a nice little utility that does this called "icns2icon."
  
  http://www.icons.cx/goodies/
• need help on project builder step in icon process
  2006-01-19 09:56:42  turdball [View]
  
  
  but this doesn't actually set the ocon other than for your own computer. the icon is set on my machine, but if i send someone the application, my new icon is gone. how do i lock the icon to the app?