best way to create dock icons

JiveMasterT · Post by **JiveMasterT** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:01 pm

I was trying to make a dock Icon and for some reason, whenever you have it magnnify the icon, it makes it look really pixelated, even though the image itself is 200x200 and in PNG uncompressed with alpha transparency. is there a guide on how to do these?

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:13 pm

This is a guess.. but I bet that the veterans and professionals of making Adiumies had a big duck, worked on it while it was big, then scaled it down to about 256 x 256, or bigger.

JiveMasterT · Post by **JiveMasterT** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:43 pm

oh i thought they only had to be 128x128... I'll try it at 256x256 tomorrow and see what happens.

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:31 pm

would anyone know where to get a large version of an adiumy?

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:06 am

Please don't hijack threads. With that said, the dock icon packages should have a 256x256 Adiumy.

djmori · Post by **djmori** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:13 am

JiveMasterT wrote:I was trying to make a dock Icon and for some reason, whenever you have it magnnify the icon, it makes it look really pixelated, even though the image itself is 200x200 and in PNG uncompressed with alpha transparency. is there a guide on how to do these?

Are you trying to make an adiumy, or just a regular OsX Hi-Res icon?

spookster · Post by **spookster** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:23 pm

i have made a dock icon for myself ( D2 mini ama; approval pending on xtras site) wich is only 128x128 resolution and it doesn't look pixelated in my dock, with 2/3 magnification on mouse-over

SamGwilym · Post by **SamGwilym** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:34 pm

The icons are 128x128 - there's no way to display them in the dock or in the finder any larger than that.

The problem I think this person is having is that they are saving the file at the wrong resolution - make sure the resolution is 72. I had this problem before and making sure the resolution was at this number removed my problems.

1985 · Post by **1985** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:25 am

SamGwilym wrote:The icons are 128x128 - there's no way to display them in the dock or in the finder any larger than that.

By editing a .plist (think it was one of those) file it can be done, atleast in the Finder.

Post by **bgannin** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:24 pm

Technically speaking, Tiger supports icon resolutions up to 256 x 256, though you cannot visibly set it this high or view it in any applications.

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