So I decided to take a little break this afternoon and replace the icons on my iPhone. This isn’t the easiest thing in the world to do, so I thought it would be a good way to make my iPhone “stand out.”

Here are the results (picture not guaranteed to be well taken):

I think the whole process turned out pretty well. I used icons from the set sticker system by the icon factory. I did have to make the calendar icon myself because sticker system doesn’t included one, and even if it did, it probably wouldn’t have worked. You see, the calendar icon on the iPhone is “live” witch means that text is superimposed on top of the icon graphic. This would be all well and good, however, the text is placed so high on the icon that to get the correct proportions with an icon that isn’t 64 pixels square is pretty close to impossible. The icon I made isn’t awful, its just awfully tall.

If you would like to do this yourself, instructions are here please note that this is not for the faint of heart, and could destroy your phone if you do something you are not suppose to… Also, if you are curious, the way I used mac icons is this:

• get info (apple-i) on the file who’s icon you want to use
• click on the icon in the upper left corner of the info window
• apple-c to copy the icon
• open preview and choose “New From Clipboard” in the File menu (or apple-N)
• do a “save as” and save the file out as a photoshop file
• open this file in photoshop shrink it to be 64X64 (or use this fancy photoshop droplet I made *Photoshop required)
• save the file as a .png and follow the instructions I posted before

whee!