How to get high resolution icons for your theme(s)

[thecooldude]

HOW TO GET HIGH RESOLUTION ICONS FOR THEMES

System OS Requirements:

Mac (Because this is the only system I've discovered it on)

Well anyways all credit for this goes to me unless somebody has found this (which might happen)

1) You must have the application on your computer for it to work
2) Go to your hard drive and navigate to your Applications folder
3) Find the application icon you want
4) Right click on it
5) Select show package contents
6) Navigate inside the folder to: Contents/Resources/xxx.icns (X=Application name)
7) Right click on the xxx.icns
8) Open with > Preview
9) When you open it, it will appear like a gif file but don't worry.
10) Go to File > Save As
11) A box will pop up and you can save it to any file you want.
Recommended file types:
A) jpg
B) png

Then resize your image to probably 59 x 59 pixels to fit as an application icon.

Ex:

iTunes

Note: If you look closely and i have never found this before but you can actually see that is says around the disk: Apple 2006 and some other stuff.
iPhoto


Isn't that high quality or what?

[slowmachine]

do you have another icon template instead of this icon ? or where i can find the template ?

thx

[thecooldude]

Originally Posted by slowmachine

do you have another icon template instead of this icon ? or where i can find the template ?

thx

Uhhh template?? Do you mean the icon? All the other icons are in applications which you have to find in this tutorial.

[SmoothTroopa]

wait.......... So you just resize the image?

[Gitykins]

It's not high quality, it's a different picture.

[SumDaii]

WOW,

thats like Blu-ray without Blu-ray!

[slowmachine]

Originally Posted by thecooldude

Uhhh template?? Do you mean the icon? All the other icons are in applications which you have to find in this tutorial.

uumm.. yupe. i mean Icon..

thx for the info

[thecooldude]

Originally Posted by slowmachine

uumm.. yupe. i mean Icon..

thx for the info

Yeah its a different icon that you can resize to use for themes, instead of searching on the web and not finding it at all

[Meikura]

Originally Posted by SumDaii

WOW,

thats like Blu-ray without Blu-ray!

BEST. EXPLANATION.jEVER.

[thecooldude]

Uhh i just thought of it but i will take requests for any high resolution icons as long as its for a mac and i have it for example like safari or imovie. i'll hopefully respond to your request a few hours from the post, unless i have a lot of homework or something.

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Alright I am just going to get some icons down right now

Automator

iMovie

Safari

Archive Utility

Front Row

Photo Booth

Stickies

Note: I've always wondered what easter egg is on this one...
OMG Anyone want to call Lou (Maybe the creator of this app)?


Not all of them are high quality but i say 80% are not here but other ones. These here are all high quality

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Originally Posted by Meikura

BEST. EXPLANATION.jEVER.

Yeah do you see a resemblance?



Isn't this like the sexiest picture of blu ray you've ever seen?

EDIT:

I don't know i was just playing with photoshop and made this: