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Bored with Mail.app's icon? Roll your own
Are you getting tired of other good icons? Hawk Wings, obsessed with all things Mail.app, has tracked down a Photoshop template for creating your own Mail.app icon. Courtesy of John Godfrey, this Photoshop template contains instructions for inserting your own images into a Mail.app icon, and Tim Gaden also recommends rotating your inserted image to 11.2 degrees counter-clockwise, as well as using an 85 x 90 size to get just the right fit.
But, "how do I turn an image into a Mail.app icon?" you ask. Hawk Wings has a solution for that step too: img2icns is a Universal Binary freeware app that can convert JPEGs, PNGs, TIFs and GIFs to the ICNS format, ripe for using a previous (and simple) TUAW Tip for replacing Mail.app's icon with your much more exciting new creation.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Timothy Hannon said 1:37PM on 7-24-2006
So for other options to convert the image I like using one of the following programs:
CocothumbX
Pic2Icon
Drag and drop to convert. Very nice
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Dov said 1:44PM on 7-24-2006
What was that other TUAW tip? The link just points to the img2icns site like the link before it.
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Nefarious said 2:00PM on 7-24-2006
Hummm... Can't seem to get this to work. What's going on?
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jay said 2:17PM on 7-24-2006
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/05/30/changing-mail-apps-icons/
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r said 3:06PM on 7-24-2006
What is Merlin Mann doing on that icon?
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Neal said 6:08PM on 7-24-2006
This is a cool app that does this very easily:
http://www.dekorte.com/projects/shareware/PostCard/
-Neal
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