Convert, Manage and Set Icons in OS X with Img2icns

Img2icns, the simple image utility which lets you create icons for use in OS X, has recently been updated to version 1.0. With this major update from Shiny Frog Img2icns now boasts a refined user interface and a wealth of new features that finally make the focused application a serious contender for best customization tool for your Mac.

A Quicker Way to Extract Application Icons Using AppleScript

An AppleScript to make opening an application’s icon in Preview a one click affair.

Iris Image Editor

Iris is a new layer based image editor for OS X Leopard. It looks pretty and costs 79$, but it has to compete with both Pixelmator and Acorn. We’ll see how that goes.

Acorn Updated to 1.2b1

Acorn, the newish and excellent image editor from Flying Meat, has been updated to 1.2b1. Along with Pixelmator, Acorn is the new breed of Mac image editor that takes advantage of your computer’s GPU (rather than its CPU, a la Photoshop) to render effects and filters with wicked speed. It’s already an impressive application and [...]

Visigami: Fun Image Search and Screen Saver

Visigami from the Google Mac Team will search Flickr, Google Images and Picasa for keyword images and pan the results across your screen in a few different ways. I don’t see that application being all that useful, but it also comes with a screensaver version, which looks pretty.

Open Application Icons Images in Preview

An easy technique to open application icons in preview for whatever reason. Get info, copy to clipboard, open Preview and hit Cmd + N. A new document with all the application’s icon images will open. Save as a png with alpha. Quick and simple.

Create Icons Quickly with Preview and Img2icns

I like to customize my Mac, and one of the easiest ways to do so is to change the default icons for files and folders. And there are some great tools to do this. For instance, Panic’s CandyBar 3 lets you easily swap and restore systemwide icon mods, and even comes stocked with a good [...]