5thApr 08
Updated goodie: Aperture File Types v1.1
I missed to put an icon for .MRW-files in the first version. So the new zip-file contains the new icon for .MRW-files in all formats.
These icons are free for your personal use and include icons for all file types Apple’s Aperture 2 can handle (.jpeg, .gif, .tiff, .png, .pdf, .psd, .arw, .cr2, .crw, .mos, .nef, .raf, .raw, .srw, .tif, .oly, .fff, .3fr, .dng, .mrw)
- Mac + Win + Linux + iContainer
- Leopard ready (512×512)
- custom 32px and 16px icons
Get them from the goodies-page under the same link as before.
And don’t forget to read my article about how to change the generic image icons in Mac OS X Leopard.
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Hi,
Thanks for the Icons, but i’m not sure how to install these.
Can you point me in the right direction please…
Thanks
Hi
Like the above poster I think they look great but would appreciate some help in getting them installed. A little help??
Thanks.
hi and welcome,
here are some infos how you can use these icons.
the standard app for images in mac os x is preview.app and therefore every image should be represented with an icon with the preview-icon and the filetype in three letters under it. remember that this is just the case if you turn off symbol preview in finders view option since leopard automatically generates a preview of the image as its icon.
and since preview.app is used to show the icons we can find all image type icons in Preview.app > Contents > Resources. Sadly Preview don’t have an unique icon for all RAW file types. Instead it uses just a generic RAW-icon named RAW.icns
So here’s what you can do: Grab your desired RAW-file icon from my icon package in icns-format. Rename it as RAW.icns. Copy it over to Preview.app > Contents > Resources and overwrite the standard icon. Making a backup copy of Preview.app before doing that is a wise thing here.
The problem is that from now on every RAW-file is represented by this icon, which is a problem if you use more than one RAW format. A solution to this mess could be photoshop which really have a unique file icon for every RAW format. just make photoshop the standard app for your RAW-files and the icon should change.
The icons from Photoshop are stored in Adobe Photoshop CS3.app > Contents > Resources. the icon e.g. for .cr2-icons is named PS_CR2FileIcon.icns.
made a new blog post out of the question how to use these icons:
http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/04/changing-the-image-icons-in-mac-os-x-leopard/