Converting png to desktop icon?

[meagain]

I'm trying to use this Macbook Air icon in this http://darkdest1ny.deviantart.com/art/MB-Air-Apple-Display-Icons-79734072

to my desktop as an Icon. For whatever reason, I can't seem to get a useable icon out of this. It seems to have a grey background? What am I doing wrong? Thx.

 

[TwinCities Dan]

I'd love to help but for some reason I can't download that file, I click it and it stalls waiting for deviantart.com?

(I know its not me because I can download other icons from there just fine...)

 

[meagain]

It seems the link tosses you to a deviantart ad or something then you have to click 'continue' or something. Maybe that's why?

Basically I have a nice Air icon but it's too small. I think this one would be the right size but it's in some png format that I'm not familiar with and the background is grey or I can't free the image from the background or something.

 

[iJesus]

Use the program img2icns to convert those .png files to .icn files

that's what your problem is.

 

[meagain]

Thanks but I can't get that to work either. I drag an icon there and it acts like it's doing something but doesn't. It did do something to 2 icons but they still have the grey background and I think are still png. This is obviously beyond me and my applications folder is now filled with files, etc. it shouldn't have.

How about resizing a working icon on my desktop? Is there no easy way to do that?

 

[TwinCities Dan]

I still can't get the original link to the icons to download!

 

[Matari]

You could try opening the .png in preview and then saving it as a jpeg. You can then put it into img2icns to turn it into a .icn file. Re the grey background - not too sure how you get rid of this, unless you put it into photoshop.