Tip 202View Application Icons Close-Up

This isn’t the most useful tip in the world, but it’s worth a try if you’re a fan of your Mac’s look and feel and want to explore more. Here are a variety of ways to view most Mac application icons, which are often high-quality works of art.

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Figure 36. Viewing OS X icons at full resolution

Using Preview

Go to the Applications folder within Finder, click the application whose icon you’d like to examine, and hit Command+C to copy it to the clipboard. Start Preview (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then double-click Preview) and hit Command+N to create a new file based on the clipboard contents. ...

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