Custom Folder Icon Instructions
An Overview:
This document is not intended to be step by step instructions on how to create custom folder icons.
It is only intended to be informative.
Your computer and the graphic tools that you have would dictate the steps by step
instruction. We have no way to know what you have.
The basic idea is to create a small image (92X92 pixels) using the tools you have on your
computer and then up-load it to the page. Do not just resize a large picture, It will not
look good. Crop or cut out a piece of a picture. Save it, rename it as instructed below then
up-load it to the gallery.
About the gallery:
The album page has two display areas or sections: the display of the pictures
of folders, which when clicked, opens another folder and the display of thumbnail
images, which when clicked,, opens the image to full size.
In the opening folder, if you display only images, you have only one page in
your album. If you display only folders, or both folders and images, then you
have multiple pages in your album.
The standard folder image is a .gif image of a file folder. There are two
sizes of folders available; the big folder image is 92 X 92 pixels and the small
folder is 46X46 pixels.
It is possible to customize the folder images. For instance, You might want a
flower which reflects the content of the folder of flower images, instead of
a picture of just the file folder.
Details:
The custom folder image icon must be a .jpg type image file. It's name should
only be 31 characters or less in length because, the older Mac operating systems
have this limit. Also if it is too long it will not fit neatly on the page.
Please note: This program will automatically display the capitalized first letter
of the image name or folder title and every letter preceded by a space.( Similar
to a book title)
The custom folder icon image must have the same file name as the folder it
represents, and must have the text "-hide" in the file name just before the
text ".jpg". Example: The folder named "My good stuff" uses an image named
"my good stuff-hide.jpg". The "-hide" text is needed to handle the custom
folder icon image differently than a normal image.
The recommended size for the custom folder icon image is about 92 x 92 pixels.
However, they can be as large as the thumb nail images (their size is set in the
configuration window) or as small as the small folder icon image.
The size of the image is critical. It will be displayed as you constructed it.
It will not be compressed or resized.
Custom folder icon images must be in the folder that contains the folder which
the icon will represent. This is very hard to explain in words. For a visual,
click here.
Here are some example graphics to get you started.
They will open a new browser window. Then you can save then to your computer.
Try right-click on windows.
folder sample 1
folder sample 2
folder sample 3