App Icons

[Firefighter6484]

I am kinda of new to this, but have figured out my way around using Filezilla, and have been putting together my own theme for winterboard.

Everything has worked great, except for a few apps i need Icon for. Mostly just to make them a bit smaller to match the rest of my icons.

I have found the app folders under /private/var/mobile/applications

But the "icon.png" there, or any png's for that matter are just blank when i copy them over to my Mac, or even just try to view them from Filezilla. So i do not know what to do from here. I have managed to save the iTunes artwork and convert them to png, so i could doctor those up a bit to use.

Does anyone know why the "icon.png" are blank? I can save them, but its just a white background. No actual image.

Thanks

 

[ckong]

I think you're running into iPhone .png files that are formatted differently than normal .png files. Here are three sites with info/fixes on the issue:

iPhone .png Decoding
http://www.newsfirex.com/blog/?p=176

iPhone PNG fixer-upper
http://www.cyberhq.nl/2007/07/05/iphone-png-fixer-upper.html

iPhone PNG Images Normalizer
http://www.axelbrz.com.ar/?mod=iphone-png-images-normalizer

Personally, I use the iPhone PNG Images Normalizer. It works great.

 

[MrThompsonR]

I use Paint.net, a free program to create my own icons... You can see a few of them in these pics... I use one size for the Springboard and another for the doc. I use the "Magic wand" to outline/ remove the "box" around the image/ icon... I redid the Phone and iPod icons on my dock... And a few of my Categories icons...

 

[Firefighter6484]

Thank you!!!