Showing posts with label Icons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Icons. Show all posts
Monday, April 14, 2014
Creating beautiful drive icons. Simple and easy on OS X.
I've been asked how do I make such beautiful desktop drive icons on my mac. Pretty simply, I find a picture I like, remove the back-ground and copy-n-paste into the drive I want.
I've been doing this since 1996. 18 years now. NO need for .icns, .ico, autorun.inf, hidden text files, or folder.jpeg files. On Mac OS, it is copy-n-paste. With the advent of HiDPI Retina screens, my icons are usually 500x500 pixel high resolution and they look amazing.
Sure, it is skeuomorphic but I like it.
My technique and steps are pretty simple. Google the image (preferably high-res) and remove the background. Then copy-n-paste.
Here is a visual walkthrough.
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