Mac Icons

check out www.Interfacelift.com and www.iconfactory.com for tons of info

 

You can make the icons in Photoshop. After all, icons are just little images. You can use an application called Icon Composer which is part of the Developer Tools included with OS X to create the actual .icns files. It's very simple. All it does is takes image files (PNG, IIRC) and creates .icns files from them. You supply it with 4 image sizes (16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 128x128), and 3 optional "hit masks", and it will output an icon for you.

I've used it to design a create a couple custom icons that I made in Photoshop and Illustrator, and it works fine.

As an aside, I'm amused by the fact that Icon Composer itself has a really awful grainy looking application icon.

 

hey sotofish!

i've come across your artwork before, your stuff would make awesome icons!
it'd be nice to have some strange semi-organic entities sprouting from my screen

let us know how you go..

cheers

 

http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html

easy to use and almost free...