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    image size for custom icons?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by hoolyproductions, Mar 19, 2008.

  1. hoolyproductions

    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    I downloaded Candybar3 last night and am hooning around making custom icons (e.g. using a red letterbox for Mail).

    What is the best image size to work with? Some of my icons turn out teeny tiny, some are oversized and it seems a bit random. Anyone know if there is a 'standard' size for a MBP 15" res? Also I am using .png file format for dumping into candybar, should I be using something else?

    Many thanks, K.
     
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    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok I can answer my own question now. Has to be PNG, transparency doesn't work in jpeg. An so long as it's big enough it's fine...
     
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    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    with Candybar you can just use PNG files for the icons, no need to use an icon builder or create icns files.

    Thanks for the info tho.

    I have now totally pimped my dock :D
     
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    the max size you really need for an icon is 512x512, is that is the largest icon size possible in Leopard, which is really quite large.
     
    circa86, Mar 19, 2008
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