Step 3: Launch the stock Preview app from your Dock. Next, press ⌘C on the keyboard – this will copy the icon’s graphics to the system clipboard. Now click once on the app’s icon in the top left corner of the Info panel to highlight it. Alternatively, right-click the application and select ‘Get Info.’ Step 2: Press ⌘I on your keyboard to bring up the item information window in Finder. Of course, you could just as easily highlight any other app or document icon anywhere on your Mac.
Locate a desired app – in this case Mission Control – and click once to highlight it. Step 1: Navigate to the Applications folder in Finder, either manually or by hitting the Shift-⌘-A combo on your keyboard. How to extract and save high resolution icons from Mac apps In addition, each may be provided in 72 and 144 pixels-per-inch flavors for use on non-Retina and Retina screens. In addition to the full-size 1,024-by-1,024 icon, developers must provide several smaller sizes that the operating system uses to enlarge and shrink the icon properly in various Finder views, minimizing artifacts. On the downside, doing so removes icon transparency and fails to produce a pixel-perfect replica of the original icon. This tutorial will teach you how to to extract icons from Mac apps in their original size as transparent PNG files.īefore we get to it, let me point out quickly that Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for OS X development clearly mandate that developers include specific icon sizes in their app bundles. Granted, it’s easy to navigate to your Applications folder and screenshot a desired icon in the Finder’s CoverFlow or Icon view. I myself often get asked about extracting high-quality Mac icons for use in blog posts, on websites and elsewhere. Our new contributor Timothy Reavis recently posted a nicely done how-to explaining how one can easily change app icons on the Mac using Finder and a little bit of Terminal trickery.
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