Working with Icons
File Buddy offers several options for working with icons of files and folders whose information is being viewed in the info window. Copying Icons The easiest way to copy the icon from one item to another is to drag an icon in the Finder to the icon in a File Buddy Info window to copy the icon to the item in the window. Icons copied in File Buddy will display the copied icon in all versions of the Macintosh operating system from 7.0 forward if the "Create icons for System 7 and later" option is on in the Icons pane of the Preferences window. Custom Icon Formats Use the Icons pane of the Preferences window to control which icon formats are included when creating custom icons. The default behavior is to create small and large icons for use in Mac OS 8.6 and later, and thumbnail icons for use in Mac OS X. If you wish to create custom icons which can be viewed in System 7 - Mac OS 8.6, turn on the option to "Create icons for System 7 and later" in the Icons pane of the Preferences window. The Icon Pop-up Menu
Editing Icons Manually File Buddy does not provide tools for manually creating or editing custom icons. Creating and editing high quality Macintosh icons especially thumbnail icons for Mac OS X requires sophisticated image editing tools such as those provided by graphics-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, or software specifically written to create and edit icons such as Iconographer. Photoshop users can use The Iconfactorys IconBuilder plug-in to convert images created in Photoshop into custom icons. Related Topics |
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