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title: 'HowTo: Changing the image icons in Mac OS X Leopard'
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author: Matthias Kretschmann
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date: 2008-04-09 13:13:42+00:00
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wordpress_id: 32
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category: design
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tags:
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- tutorial
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- osx
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- macos
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- icon
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[](/media/aperturefiletypes.png)After i released my [Aperture File Types icon set](http://www.kremalicious.com/goodies) many of you asked how they can really use these icons for displaying the icons of images on your Mac system. Sadly this isn't as easy as dropping them in [Candybar](http://www.panic.com/candybar) into a well for image icons cause there isn't any well for them. So using other icons as standard file type icons for images is a bit tricky. I discovered two ways of doing it, which involves overwriting resources of Preview.app and Photoshop. So before doing anything I mention in this post, you should make a backup copy of them.
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## Changing Preview.app icons
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[](/media/openwithpreview.png)Image icons in Mac OS X doesn't really belong to the system icons. Instead they come from [Preview.app](http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html%23preview) which is the factory default application for viewing images on Mac OS X.
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And since Preview.app is used to show the icons we can find all file type icons for images in Preview.app > Contents > Resources. You get there by right clicking on Preview in your Applications folder and choosing Show Package Contents from the context menu. There you'll find icons in icns-format for bmp, dng, eps, fax, fpx, gif, icns, ico,jp2, jpeg, openexr, pdf, pict, png, pntg, ps, psd, qtif, radiance, raw, sgi, tga, tiff, xbm.
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You can just rename the desired icons from my icon pack in icns-format and replace them in the contents > resources of Preview.app.
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But, as you can see, Preview doesn’t have an unique icon for all RAW file types. Instead it uses just a generic RAW-icon named RAW.icns.
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[](/media/raw.png)So here’s what you can do: Grab your desired RAW-file icon from my icon package in icns-format. Rename it as RAW.icns. Copy it over to Preview.app > Contents > Resources and overwrite the standard icon. Making a backup copy of Preview.app before doing that is a wise thing here.
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The problem is that from now on every RAW-file is represented by this icon, which is ok if you just use one RAW-format. But it's a problem if you use more than one RAW format.
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## Changing the file type icons of Photoshop
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[](/media/PS_CR2FileIcon.png)A solution to this mess is Photoshop. So this solution just works if you have Photoshop installed. Photoshop does have a unique icon for every RAW-format out there. To confirm that you can choose Adobe Photoshop as Standard Application in the Get Info window and the icon of the file should change instantly.
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So here's the trick: The icons from Photoshop are stored in Adobe Photoshop CS3.app > Contents > Resources. the icon e.g. for .cr2-icons is named PS_CR2FileIcon.icns. Just rename the icons in my pack in the naming scheme used in the Photoshop Resources and replace them.
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Hope this helps you although it's very tricky. But changing icons for images in Mac OS X is a bit out of my control since i don't develop Mac OS X.
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By the way, this should also work in Tiger...
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