Re: Frames on icons of image files


isw wrote:
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Paul Sture <paul.nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I can see the difference between framed and non-framed images here.

Using exiftool, I can see that the ones without frames have an embedded Thumbnail image, and are photos I took with a Canon IXUS (aka PowerShot in the US and Asia) camera and imported direct from the camera to iPhoto.

In other words, it appears that Leopard's Finder is adding a frame to the thumbnails it generates for images without their own embedded thumbnail.

But it's not as simple as that, for I've just generated a thumbnail from an image (via ImageMagick) and embedded it in the main image (via exiftool), and Finder still generates a frame for the updated image.

Maybe I'm somehow not creating the "right" kind of thumbnail expected
by Finder here. I certainly have a way to do the above processing for
as many files as you like, if only I can discover what Finder "likes".
Personally, I'll just start to avoid storing thumbnails in images at all, an let the Finder do it. The files will be slightly smaller, and there'll be no inconsistency.

I just checked, and there seems to be no way to tell the scanner software not to create icon images. I'm not sure about GIMP, but image editors in general always create (or update) the icons of files they modify. And anyhow I've seen instances where Finder gets confused about icon images -- having a low-res one and refusing to redo it when you ask for 128x128 pel icons -- and having to use something like CocoThumbX to set things right.

As I already have told you, - THERE IS NO WAY TO MAKE FINDER DO THIS! And if you want to use such images as icons, you must manually use the full image and an icon application. - But you can disable thubnails in both Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and GIMP.

In my first answer I gave you a solution for making fully unframed icons, and I can add that I use a Photoshop template in size 128x128 pixel with 600x600dpi resolution, when making 32bits icons.

Other than what I was hoping for (a way to tell Finder to leave off the frame), it looks like there's not a good solution.

...Again iSaac, you can edit each icon at a time with an icon editor and remove the 'frame', which as I already have told you - is the mask in the icon file that only shows up in 2bits, 4bits and 8bits. - After you've said that you use from scanned images/pictures, my guess is that you've used the thumbs as icons, and since these mostly are in 8bits, cause most normal scanners only work in 24bits.

Cheers, Erik Richard

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