Comments on: Leopard Folder Icons Updated

By: Jono

Jono — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:14:20 +0000

Basically make your icon using the templates. Place your finished images into the Expanded.psd grid that comes with IconBuilder & flatten them into 1 layer. Then use the IconBuilder filter to turn it into an icon file.

By: Amort

Amort — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:33:58 +0000

Sorry for bothering, but could you give me a sort of how-to for iconbuilder and the templates you offer??
Because its pretty complex getting a good icon!!
I got iconbuilder and PS and also your templates and also how to change the picture or thext at the folder but then?

By: Jono

Jono — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:44:33 +0000

I use IconBuilder to turn them into .icns files.

By: Amort

Amort — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:36:24 +0000

Thanks and in what format do you save them png and convert them to .icn or another way?

By: Jono

Jono — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:36:21 +0000

Yea, you can download the templates here. Add your shapes as a new layers then copy the layer effects from the existing shapes (Option drag onto your layer), & set them at the same opacity as the existing shape's layers.

By: Kotrl

Kotrl — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:22:09 +0000

These really are outstanding. Most of the custom leopard folder icons available don’t come with 16×16 or 32×32 sizes to fit the leopard style. The edges end up looking very soft and don’t match the default leopard folders in list view. I’d really like to solve this.

Is there any chance you could release the template you used for these so i could make some for my own for personal use.

By: Jono

Jono — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:15:07 +0000

As I said I originally made them for myself as I needed these but didn’t have any plans to release them.

But I’m finding that I do want/need odd ones here & there. I’ve just made an Apple one & a vector one so I’ll probably release these soon, & any more I make in the future.

By: Richard Hallas

Richard Hallas — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:04:04 +0000

Lovely! I’ve been looking for some extra folder icons in the Leopard style to extend the things I can label in an authentic-looking manner, and these are extremely good. Just what I was after.

A few more would be nice, though. A folder icon for games/diversions would be good (maybe it could have a pacman and/or ghost on it – or perhaps the four card suit symbols?). And I’d appreciate a folder with the Adobe logo on it for CS3, which only has a generic folder at present. Maybe a folder with the Apple logo on it would also be very handy. There are lots of possibilities, obviously. Classic Mac OS used to have lots of special folder icons (for preferences, control panels etc.) and it might be nice to take a few ideas from some of those. OS X just doesn’t have the same range.

But those are just a few thoughts. What you’ve done here is great, so it’d be nice to see more of the same. Thanks!