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Contextual menu for adding color/icons to Finder items. Shareware ($12)
iconXprit is an icon tool to provide a Mac OS X 10.7 Finder service. It makes it easy to attach custom icons to desktop items such as folder. Three sorts of add-ons - image, color and text - can be added as layers and removed separately.
Main features:
Main features:
- Define group colors or use any color freely.
- Strings added via the text panel are editable and Spotlight-compatible.
- The editor panel contains various tools to modify combined images: resize, relocate, transform, apply several effects, add text and clip.
- Edit-settings can be saved as templates
What's New
Version 3:
- Adjustments for Mac OS X 10.7.
- Standard drag&drop installation.
- Support for 1024x1024 icon.
- "Show/Hide Grid" menu for the editor.
- New application icon.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
iconStiX+9
Folder Icon Ch...+3 
FolderBrander+3 
Folders Factor...+2 
Telling Folder...+2 
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| Downloads:10,834 |
| Version Downloads:1,171 |
| Type:Utilities : Icon Tools |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:11 Aug 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $12.00 |
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iconXprit is an icon tool to provide a Mac OS X 10.7 Finder service. It makes it easy to attach custom icons to desktop items such as folder. Three sorts of add-ons - image, color and text - can be added as layers and removed separately.
Main features:
Main features:
- Define group colors or use any color freely.
- Strings added via the text panel are editable and Spotlight-compatible.
- The editor panel contains various tools to modify combined images: resize, relocate, transform, apply several effects, add text and clip.
- Edit-settings can be saved as templates accessible from the service menu.
- Collect favorites.
- Keep items whose icons are frequently modified.
- iconXprit menu items are selectable and their order is customizable.
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I did, and probably this post being of August last year, you also.
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There is a problem with the shadow feature, it looks bright on a dark background:
http://img.skitch.com/20100307-gj3yt4gseps7d1q6gjy9x32xbb.jpg
Thanks for pointing out the problem.
Having not seen the site for a while, sorry to reply you so late (just after releasing v.2.1.4).
I need to take a better look, but changing shadow settings on the Effects panel seems to generate a little better result.
That is, I have tried with
color: black with alpha 50% + blur slider: at the rightmost position.
I will most probably modify default settings in the next release.
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md828 reviewed on 20 Nov 2009
• Editor is horrible. The GUI looks like old C code. Manipulation of sizing, position and importing of base icon and stamp icon is hard.
• Redo doesn't work (undo works)
• GUI controls in editor are too small, less than 16x16.
• Not intuitive: user should be able to right-click a plain folder, select icon stamp, and the result should be folder + icon stamp. Iconxprit does the opposite, it pastes the folder into the stamp. Awkward design.
• The main menu can't be dragged, it's fixed nonstandard UI.
• Adding text via the "Add text..." menu has a horrible UI. As you type, you can't drag to reposition text. It has a nonstandard UI controls such as the close button and apply button which can be confusing to first time users.
This utility has potential to become much better, but it will need a GUI revamp to expose all the functionality in a user-friendly package.
Thanks for your comments.
I hope you find v.2.1 is getting closer to your expectations.
In principle I, being technical-oriented, never insist on my sense of design. Well, this is why I am happy to see the others' nice icons on my desktop :-) .
As to "Redo" I will think about for a future version, but as to a few other points, I may be able to add some explanations here.
As to your 4th point, I am wondering when such a situation happened...
If on the editor, the selected object might be a folder instead of a main image when a new image was dropped ("main image" is a placeholder to be replaced when a template is used on the desktop). If on the desktop, you might have used a template created in an opposite way.
It is indeed possible to create a template where the larger image is a placeholder to be replaced and the smaller one such as logo is placed on top, or further, the placeholder may be between a few other images. In iconXprit, it is not fixed with how many objects a template should be created.
As to the 5th, iconXprit is a background app and it does not have a main menu as default.
If you like to use it as a normal app, you can select the option "Show iconXprit in Dock" in the Preferences.
As to the 6th, the text view is just like the one in "TextEdit", so that the text written there remains editable and searchable. It is not a drawing area (like the one in the editor) where you can reposition objects with a mouse.
Hope I have caught your points properly. Kindly, Trollin
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Blitzlicht reviewed on 01 Oct 2009
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Rednail reviewed on 28 Aug 2009
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Rod76 reviewed on 28 Aug 2009
I'm really grateful to the developer for getting a Snow Leopard compatible version out on the day of release. I already found myself missing it several times today and am glad to have it back again.