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Is this a commercial?

I'm estatic. Count me in! :D

Dec 20, 07 - 06:15 pm Comment from: loki

I really wish Apple would incorporate a nice Icon maker into the OS.

Dec 20, 07 - 06:35 pm Comment from: Gandalf

Duh, I just copy and paste. I don't use transparent icons though, who wants an icon that when you click on part of it it doesn't work. MDN we can see though this, whappen', get some ad revenue?

So why not gimp and X - both are free? Why suggest a solution which takes $$$. Who's the sponsor here? Alas, me an my FOSS mind.

Dec 20, 07 - 07:26 pm Comment from: TheConfuzed1

Galdalf, icons with transparencies look a lot nicer in the dock.

Dec 20, 07 - 08:10 pm Comment from: Spark

Hey, cut some slack. Many people wonder how to do stuff like this and don't know where to start. There is often more than one way to skin a cat and this tutorial may be but one way. If you knew zero ways before this article then you are now wiser. If you already have a better way, post your own tutorial on a web site and give us your URL.

Dec 20, 07 - 08:15 pm Comment from: Always Right

Never mind this crap.
Peter Jackson w/ produce 2 new movies based on The Hobbit.

See, I wished real hard, and GOT MY WAY.

Gandalf is a retard.

Dec 20, 07 - 08:57 pm Comment from: Gandalf

Multifaceted comments are opaque to posters such as 'I A Dolt'.

@TheConfuzed1

Very true, however I keep applications in the doc and invariably create icons for image files which remain in folders. So I can maybe appreciate that the functionality is useful for a handful of people but question why this is a story on MDN.

For those who missed it in my earlier comment there is a play on the word 'transparency'. I thought it was quite easy to see through especially as I included an emoticon.

<sig> Do not mess with wizards for they may become ethereal and even more difficult to grasp. </sig>

Which Includes Free Applications to MAKE icons in Tiger & Leopard. The way it should be. Free.

1) any picture - best when it's one you took or drew
2) LiveQuartz - to erase the edges - effects - paint whatever
2) Pixer 1.9.6b or img2icns - to make the icons

Because you are all mainly mac people... I think you can figure it out yourselves. But if not... hmmmm maybe I will write one.

Dougless

Dec 20, 07 - 10:11 pm Comment from: LorD1776

Icons? We don't need no steeenkink icons!

@ Spark,
but with your logic. they can keep telling us about every single product. right? but this is supposed to be a news site not a learning site(MacDaily"News"). but no harm is done. MDN sometimes even put MS ads. so whatever works for them. we just follow

PS. I know, I don't have to visit MDN

Dec 21, 07 - 01:06 am Comment from: TowerTone

you know, I'm just sayin, if ya drink enough beer, you can see through anything! Now cut the BS....

tower tone, LOL, thanks for making me laugh so hard right before i go to bed. g'nite

Dec 21, 07 - 08:04 am Comment from: Ampar

I think the motive here is pretty clear.

Dec 21, 07 - 09:56 am Comment from: LorD1776

Can you ever really drink enough beer?

Dec 21, 07 - 10:12 am Comment from: Spark

@hmmmm

"News" is relative. If one didn't know that they could make their own icons for the Mac, this article was news. Often I read an item on MDN that I find interesting only to find a comment posted saying something like, "...old news, I read this 3 days ago." If this guy had his way MDN wouldn't have published the article because it was not "news" to him, but I would have lost out. You state, "... this is supposed to be a news site not a learning site(MacDaily"News").", yet what MDN published was news that some guy had posted a web page with a tutorial. That is news. Other than a snippet they didn't publish the tutorial itself.

I posted this on the webpage...

Thanks for the article…

I have one complaint though.

“*Note: you don’t need to pay for CandyBar even though it’s shareware, if you use it for the occasional icon like described in this tutorial.”

Advocating the continual usage of a Shareware application is not proper. If you use a Shareware application regularly you SHOULD pay for it.