Grabbing Application Icons Mac OS X
I was writing a blog post about an application and wanted to display the application’s icon. I didn’t want to take a screen capture because I might grab things I don’t need or the caprtured image may be too small. I found an article that mentioned a paragraph on how to do this properly (I unfortunately lost the link to that article).
The process is pretty simple. Go to your Applications folder and select the application you want. Let’s use ITunes as an example:
Application Window ITunes Highlighted
While ITunes is highlighted, press Command+C to copy or right click on itunes and choose Copy from the menu.
Next open up the “Preview” application and press Command+N or from the menu pick File->New From Clipboard. This will open up the Itunes icon in all the different sizes
Preview App With Icons Of Different Sizes
Next just pick the size you want from the sidebar and then save the image as a JPEG or PNG and you now have a clean version of the icon:
ITunes Icon