Transparent Icon for a Folder

[Michael4824]

I'm pretty sure I'm in the right forum here...

I currently have a .PNG icon, and I would like to assign it to a folder, so the folder icon would be this one (It's a snow flake, which at first glance, makes me think of Winter Quarter for school, aka, the folder name.)

I know how to assign the icon to the folder, without any problems. (Right Click-->Get Info-->And drag the icon to the Top Left). However, when the icon (which is transparent, I'm 120% sure) is displayed, the background is white. Normally this wouldn't be an issue, except the icon also appears on my Finder sidebar, since it's a folder I use a lot.

Using Icon Composer (/Developer/Applications/Utilities), I tried making it an icns, just to see what would happen. But, like most icons I've tried, this appears when I drag it. And I assure you, this is not the icon I'm trying to make the folder appear as:

So, my question is, how do I transform this transparent PNG icon to be transparent when it's assigned as an icon for a folder. Incase it matters, the icon is 256x256, with a 72 pixels/inch Resolution. I've tried playing with the sizes a lot, and I believe I read somewhere that the resolution actually matters for OSX to take the icon.

Thanks for the help!

 

[miles01110]

Ok I know you said you are "120%" sure that your icon is transparent, but does that include background layers as well? What did you use to make the png in the first place?

 

[rimoun]

Hi
I'm experiencing the same problem Also and I'm sure the problem is not caused by the icons as I tried to use many popular icon sets and the result is the same

 

[forcefieldkid]

You might have already tried this, but it didnt say...

If you open the .png in preview, then press cmd+a then copy, then go back out of preview, open up the get info pane for the file you want to change, and paste into the icon section.

A lot of people try and do this without going into preview, and get the same result you have.