Recently with the help of David Boyd, I have figured out how to not only download custom Leopard docks but also create my own dock graphics. The day after the big release of Leopard in the Burlington store we noticed something funny with the 20in iMac. The dock wasn’t the traditional silver color, but was now a see through black graphic. I searched everywhere online the next few days and couldn’t find anything about changing different colors.
Last Saturday I asked on of my co-workers, David Boyd, if he knew how to change the appearance of the dock to different colors and graphics. Of course he said without hesitation, “Oh yeah, just check out leoparddocks.com.”
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing: there were all sorts of different docks to download and easy steps to change it. I downloaded a few of them and switched my dock to the transparent black one I had seen on the iMac after the Leopard release.
I noticed that the files you could download were only semi-transparent PNG files. A PNG file, or Portable Network Graphic, is used as a replacement for a GIF file and employs lossless data compression. This file format is easily created in Adobe Photoshop CS3, and I have been creating them for school files since high school. I started on a design I thought fellow Small Doggers and their customers would like. I created the dock graphic, indicators and re-sizing bar. Check it out and tell me what you think!
