How To: Create Custom Icons for your Mac

photoshop iconHave you ever wanted a custom icon for a hard drive or folder? I have, and I found out that it is easy to do, even if you can’t make an icon from scratch. For example, I got tired of seeing the default white removable drive icon whenever I plugged in my CompactFlash reader. I decided to make a custom CompactFlash icon to use instead.

Note: Their may be simpler, even easier ways to do this but this is how I do it. Comments welcome.

Step One: Making the Icon

For this example, I used an image that I found on Google Images. If you do the same, make sure your base image is at least 128px by 128px. You could also draw your own icon if you are a Photoshop whiz. Anyway, once you have your image, open it in Photoshop or a similar image editor and eliminate the background by deleting it. You just want your subject on top of a transparent background. Now you might want to add a subtle drop shadow if you want, since most icons do. When you like how your icon looks, resize it to 128 x 128 and save it as a PSD or a PNG.

Step Two: Converting the Icon

If you don’t have Apple’s Developer Tools, you will need to install them in order to complete the next step. You can find these tools on your Mac OS X install disk, or Apple’s website.

The tool that we will be using is Icon Composer, which can be found in /Developer/Applications/Utilities. Open Icon Composer and drag your PSD or PNG into every box. For the upper boxes, it will ask you a couple of questions. Always tell it to Use Scaled Version and Extract Mask. Once all the boxes are filled, go to File > Save As and save the icon in a convenient place.

Icon Composer leaves us with an ICNS file, which is almost usable. We now need to convert the ICNS to a RSRC file, which can be easily done with Icns2Rsrc. Just open the app, open the ICNS file, and it will ask you where to save the RSRC.

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If you know how to change an icon in Mac OS X, you know what to do now. If not, it is really easy. Open the Get Info window for the RSRC icon, click on the miniature icon in the top left and press Command C (copy). Then, go to the drive or folder that you want the icon to be on, open the Get Info window, click on the mini-icon and press Command V (paste). Now you should have a perfect custom icon.

Comments

141 Responses to “How To: Create Custom Icons for your Mac”

  1. Marvin Sum on April 21st, 2007 7:17 am

    Interesting, how did you manage to change those 3 buttons on the left side of the titlebar?

  2. Andreas on April 21st, 2007 8:47 am

    Thanks for the great tip! I’ll be doing this for my external drives now I think.

  3. Greg H on April 21st, 2007 8:50 am

    @Marvin Sum It looks like he is using a ShapeShifter Theme.

  4. Alex Galonsky on April 21st, 2007 10:16 am

    Yep, Shapeshifter theme. Carbonite to be specific.

  5. Dustin Schau on April 21st, 2007 12:38 pm

    This is a method I have truly never heard of, but I have a similar method.

    Icon Composer is better if you would like different icon(s) at smaller sizez, but if not I reccomend img2icns. All you do is drag the .png or .tiff file onto the dock icon, and it will output a .icns file (from 128d128 all the way down to 16×16).

    Now, this will give you the .icns file in a somewhat similar method as the method posted by Alex, but again, what I do next is different. Instead of using icon2rsrc, I reccomend using IconDroplet. You drag the .icns file onto the icon, and it will output a .app file which can be copied (then deleted) and pasted using Get Info onto the application, or any other icon that you wish.

    Also, on a somewhat similarly related topic, if you have ever wanted to get a 128×128 png (or any size for that matter) from an Application, Hard Drive Icon, Folder Icon, etc. I reccomend IconVerter. It does the job perfectly.

    Great post, but I just do things a little differently!

  6. TonyInBatavia on April 21st, 2007 2:50 pm

    Thanks so much! I love it when someone helps me use the software tools that came with the computer, especially when they are tools I didn’t even know I had! The process you outlined could not have been easier.

    Now I think I need to explore the other development tools in that package!

    Thanks, again.

  7. Miles Evans on April 22nd, 2007 1:55 am

    @Dustin: Great tip on IconVerter!

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    apple now wants 512×512 icons, fyi

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  11. BroceBeats on April 22nd, 2007 5:03 am

    or you can just use pic2icon

  12. Martin Leblanc on April 22nd, 2007 6:33 am

    Great tip, thanks!

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    Iconographer is a good tool for this:
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  21. Geoff on April 22nd, 2007 3:23 pm

    Let’s see.. a free app included with the Developer Tools or download and pay for some shareware app that removes a step from a super simple and quick 4 step process? Hm. Nothing against shareware (and the many quality shareware OSX apps available) but in cases like this there’s no reason to go with something else. Yes, if one doesn’t have other reasons to install the Developer Tools *then* there would be reason to install the smaller and (hopefully) cheap shareware but I’m considering only folks who have the Developers Tools already installed for other reasons in my comments.

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    I am so untalented with this ish, and even I could make a icon for my fancy lego brick HD.

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    @Yuzie!

    I have a fancy lego brick HD too!!

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  26. subcorpus on April 23rd, 2007 2:38 am

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  27. TheMacthinker on April 25th, 2007 4:15 am

    Here is also a great article on how to customize your icons…
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    Another article on how to customize your icons…
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    May be I am missing something but I do not think you need these tools. When I created icon for mounting my blackberry pearl – this is what I did.

    1. search google images to find a large image of blackberry pearl (size does not matter)
    2. do copy on image (apple-c)
    3. do get info on my mounted blackberry pearl generic icon.
    4. do paste (apple-v) after selecting the icon image in the get info window.

    see, no tools needed !!

    what am I missing?

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    I just spent a few minutes creating icons for all my external drives, and it was quite easy. I didn’t have Photoshop, but Graphic Converter did the trick.
    Thanks for the fun tip!

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  42. K on May 19th, 2007 7:49 pm

    Great tips, thanks. One question, I wasn’t able to use this method to replace the computer icon. The little imac-type icon is cute and all, but I was hoping to replace it with an icon that fits the name of my mac. Try as I might, this copy and paste method did not work. Is there another way to do it?

  43. scottsasonic on May 28th, 2007 12:49 pm

    Ok, if you are using OS X 10.4.x , Icns2Rsrc DOES NOT work. It is horribly outdated last build from 2001.
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    IconDroplet for the final output (after Icon Composer)! It’s so easy and just drag n’ drops!

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  46. Michelle on August 14th, 2007 5:46 pm

    Dustin Schau said on April 21st, 2007 at 12:38 pm:

    “This is a method I have truly never heard of, but I have a similar method.

    Icon Composer is better if you would like different icon(s) at smaller sizez, but if not I reccomend img2icns. All you do is drag the .png or .tiff file onto the dock icon, and it will output a .icns file (from 128d128 all the way down to 16Ã 16).

    Now, this will give you the .icns file in a somewhat similar method as the method posted by Alex, but again, what I do next is different. Instead of using icon2rsrc, I reccomend using IconDroplet. You drag the .icns file onto the icon, and it will output a .app file which can be copied (then deleted) and pasted using Get Info onto the application, or any other icon that you wish. ”

    Your method worked like a charm. Thanks for the info, and such a simple way to take my original designs for icons and turning them into icons quickly!! Kudos…

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    Can any one please tell me how I can attach a url to an Icon.

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    Go to the URL you want in Safari.
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    Get info on that and copy/paste your new icon into that URL shortcut file (as described above).

    Now, when you double click on the fluffy bunny icon – you go to fluffy bunny dot com. Is that what you were looking for? Hope that helps.

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  54. penter on December 16th, 2007 2:09 pm

    Why is it that the rsrc file that I’ve created has NO ICON?
    for some reason the icon is just a blank paper…

    I proceeded to follow Dustin Schau’s instructions, but the again, i ran into a problem.

    I couldnt Copy+Paste the Icon into the file i want it to be on…..

    could someone help,, please?

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  56. patricia Garvin on February 21st, 2008 1:14 pm

    I have a question actually..this was all very helpful until the part of Icns2Rsrc.
    I click the link and signed in to that site after getting a password. But when I downloaded the software from that site all i got is a long text in code. I have the new OSX version in my mac (don’t know if that’s a problem)
    I cannot open any application when I go to my downloads box and tried to open what it downloaded. All I get is that text with codes.
    Can you help me please? Anyone? or is there another software I could use to convert the ICNs file to RSRC?

  57. Mark on March 19th, 2008 6:49 am

    Here’s a very fast way to make ANY MAC ICON … if you have Photo Shop .. just take any photo, save as PIXAR … then GET INFO in the pixar file and there is you icon, top left .. copy and paste to another file as you like

  58. Basti on April 20th, 2008 11:20 am

    @K: it’s no big deal to replace the computer icon. Step 1: Just pick any icon of your choice (I used a b/w G3 icon), rename it to “iMac.icns”.
    Step 2: Then go to /System/Library/CoreServices. You will find a bundle called “CoreType.bundle”. Open it via “Show Package Contents” from the context menu. Go further to Contents/Resources. Here you will find many of the standard icons MacOS X uses, also many classic icons. There is a file “iMac.icns”. You can replace it with the file from Step 1. I renamed the original file to “iMac.icns.backup”. Most important is that the new file has the same name.
    Step 3: Close the package, log out and log in again or restart the computer so the Finder can read in all icon resources again.
    Et Voila you have your custom computer icon.
    Sometimes a system update replaces this bundle and restores the original icon. Just repeat the whole procedure and you will have your icon again.

  59. dave on April 21st, 2008 7:17 pm

    I changed my mac hd icon and had a drive failure. Now since installing from the time machine backup, the custom icon does not show up on the desktop, just the default disc icon. The real problem is that the custom one shows up on refit when i start the computer and it absolutely will not let me change the icon (paste is grayed out even when the icon i want is in the clipboard). I can change others, but not that one. Does anyone know where the icon is now stored and how to change it?

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    Thanks for the help, I have used Photoshop to create a set of icons but when I use candy bar to change the icons they come at at 1/4 size. help!

    I don’t know what i am doing wrong, my PSD’s are 128 x 128 yet every-time the icons are tiny!

  63. Blair Allen on July 2nd, 2008 11:03 pm

    Ok, I have a question. After I create a custom icon for a file, how can I make sure that it moves with the file, i.e, if I create a custom icon for a podcast, how can I make sure that the custom icon will be imbedded in the file and show up after downloaded?

    I can’t even make sense of my question after reading it again. I’ll take answers and/or therapy.

    Blair

  64. Bosco on July 30th, 2008 2:05 pm

    Very cool info. Simple and easy. That’s the way I like it. Thanks!

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  66. AHS on September 18th, 2008 2:29 am

    Great tutorial, but I agree–fasticns is MUCH better. Your method didn’t work at all for me, but it seems like it did for others, so it must be good. ^_^

  67. Danilo Bonardi on November 3rd, 2008 11:18 am

    For those who looking for a speedway to create and apply icns files

    Img2icns – Icon Creator

  68. nancylee on December 9th, 2008 3:08 pm

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    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
    I´VE BEEN TRYING ALL MORNING TO DO ICONS,
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  69. scott on January 12th, 2009 3:22 pm

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    i couldnt even get icon2rcns or what ever it was called to even open on my 10.5.6 macbook

    but i just wanted to add for those that dont want to install the entire Xcode tools on ur macs to take up space that you wont really use all the things in it…

    i used Pacifist to extract just the Icon Composer application from the ISO image…

    you just drag the file onto the open window and it works
    its a great program..especially if you mistakenly delete a key folder or app from your mac that was installed from your install disk leopard or tiger or whatever…it will allow you to install just what you want and you dont have to reinstall the entire operating system…saved me when my ichat died on me…cuz you cant download it anywhere but from the DVD….

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  77. namesecret on December 17th, 2009 3:38 am

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  78. Dan on December 31st, 2009 6:38 am

    Ok, to make this a lot simpler, do yourself a favor and just get CandyBar. After you use Icon Composer to export your png as an icns, just go to CandyBar and File> Import> Icons… select your icns file and voila! Custom icons!

  79. Mark on January 6th, 2010 3:30 pm

    Great to know there are tools I already have that are free with the developer’s stuff.
    PIC2toicon works great for me too.
    Iconic also works for creating the snow leopard style embossed folders. use black and white images only though.

    One quick note…in Snow Leopard you may need to unlock some apps in the info panel and change the everyone access to read & write to change the app icons before you do the normal copy and paste thing.

  80. Guido Jones on January 15th, 2010 11:43 am

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    I’ve been checking out several utilities to obtain the background transparency effect, but have always came up short.

    Your technique works flawlessly!

    …G

  81. KD on January 28th, 2010 10:16 pm

    TO: Danilo Bonardi

    Thank you ever so much!! I’ve been for some time now trying to figure out how to create a round icon w/o a square background, for my dock. With the link you’ve provided for the Icon Creator I was able to accomplish what I had wanted to do for so long. Once I figured it out, it was very easy!

    ~KD

  82. thlae on February 26th, 2010 4:58 am

    There is a far simpler way for quick and dirty icons (if you want them sleek and clean that’s not too far away either). Just take any PDF, a format very close to the heart of the OS X operating system, and change it’s extension to “.icns”, this will make that PDF file’s icon change to the contents of the file (the first page for a multipage file), and if it’s an icon sized image, you’re all set.

    Of course, it may be a bit fudged if you’re PDF wasn’t the exact dimensions. So, make that PDF the exact dimensions of the icon you’ll be needing in Page Setup, and repeat the above instructions. You can also directly copy PDF and ICNS content (stuff from inside files of those types) onto the Get Info icon. What’s curious is that Preview will not allow you to save a PDF as an ICNS.

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    2) Open “Icon Composer” located in MacBook HD/Developer/Applications/Utilities, and drag the .png photo into all the boxes. Click File, Click Save.
    3) Open a freeware application called “Icns2Rsrc” Click File, Click Open and select the newly saved photo.
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  97. Magnus on October 6th, 2010 3:46 am

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    I was able to skip the step of converting the ICNS file to an RSRC file. I just opened the ICNS file in Preview, then copied the icon size that I wanted and pasted it into the Info window of the app.

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    open it in preview > Select all > Copy
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  104. Bortzy on January 18th, 2011 7:24 pm

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