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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Neal
This is a cool app that does this very easily:
http://www.dekorte.com/projects/shareware/PostCard/
-Neal
Rob
What is Merlin Mann doing on that icon?
July 24 2006 at 3:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jay
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/05/30/changing-mail-apps-icons/
July 24 2006 at 2:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Kasei
Hummm... Can't seem to get this to work. What's going on?
July 24 2006 at 2:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Dov
What was that other TUAW tip? The link just points to the img2icns site like the link before it.
July 24 2006 at 1:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Timothy Hannon
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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