Convert icons: revisited
Some of you might remember my little article on the best and quickest way to convert icons into other usable formats (I should hope you remember, it’s one of the most searched articles on this site). While this is still relevant and very usable, it also costs you the license of Path Finder (which I insist you buy anyhow) which is about $49 or so. Some of you might want a cheaper alternative and so today I give you a sweet option that I was brought to my attention from David Chartier’s Jaiku feed.
It’s called iconGrabber and it’s a Quicksilver plugin (another app that I insist you use) and just makes the process of extracting usable image files from any icon sooooooooooo easy. All you do is invoke Quicksilver (usually ctrl+space or cmd+esc in my case), then drag and drop the icon or object onto the command panel, tab to the action panel, start typing “save”, select “Save Icon As” or “Save Icon To”, tab to the object panel and right arrow over, arrow down to select you format and press return to execute.
Seriously, the whole process takes about 5 seconds. Invoke Quicksilver again and your newly created image is the first to appear. Select return to open the new image in your default image editor.
[tags]Quicksilver, icons, icns, converter, plugin[/tags]