January 16, 2008
Grabbing OS X Applications Icons For Use As Images
You often see how I use these high-quality images of products I use on my Mac, when describing those products. Here is how I get those images uploaded to Flickr.
(1) Go to the application in the finder window:
(2) Highlight the application and select "Get Info" or Apple I.
(3) When the info screen comes up, click on the icon at the top left of that small window. Then when the icon is highlighted, select "Copy" from the edit menu or click Apple C.
(4) Then open Apple's "Preview" under your Applications folder. In Preview, select "New From Clipboard" in the File menu.
(5) It then should open up as so:
(6) Go to "Save As" in Preview's file menu and select the JPG option (the Gif option will make it an animated GIF, so don't pick that one).
(7) You should then get this single image, which you can upload to Flickr or use on your blog as you see fit.
Here is a video of me going through the steps in real time...
