Can I get rid of the white frame on Finder icon preview?

Don't know of a way to get rid of the white border other then to create a custom icon of the image and paste it onto the file. Open the image in Preview, Command-A to select the entire image, Command-C to copy it, select the Image File in the Finder and press Command-I to open an Info Window to it. Click on the little icon in the upper left corner of the window, a little keyboard focus hallow will appear around it. Press Command-V to paste the image as a custom icon onto the file. The custom icon should not have a white border.

Note: There is a bug where after pasting a custom icon, it will not show up in regular Finder windows or the Desktop. But it will show up in the Info Window where you pasted it. Don't worry. Quit/relaunch the Finder or log out and back in to see your new custom icons.

Ravenmoon wrote:
But please, please, if you MUST 'fix' things for me, give me the ability to opt out!

Open a window in the Finder, press Command-J to open the View Options window. Uncheck the "Show Preview Icons" checkbox. Poof, the thumbnails are gone (custom icons remain btw). Switch to each view style, unchecking the "Show Preview Icons" in each. Hope that helps.

To each his or her own, but I find the frames & white backgrounds, if not particularly attractive, fairly useful for a quick visual reference of the images' proportions (like tall & skinny vs. nearly square). This is pretty hard to see if transparency is enabled & large parts of the image are transparent.

When I do want to see the transparency, I find Cover Flow (& Quickview) very useful, although Cover Flow doesn't always seem to show alpha channels while QuickView always does. Plus, both versions of the technology allow much larger previews than in conventional icon Finder windows & support scroll wheels, making it easy to review large numbers of image files quickly at high resolution literally at the flick of a finger.

FWIW, at first I thought this was just a gimmick with little practical value. Now that I have started using it, particularly in conjunction with smart searches, I think it is a great addition to the OS, one that is so intuitive & efficient that it makes the old icon view look like an antiquated relic from a time when computers were not powerful enough to manage more than tiny thumbnails.

I'm not trying to convince you about this as you seem adamant about not liking it, but I do think it is the logic progression for browsing through ever larger numbers of ever higher resolution images, & is only going to get better at this as it becomes more refined. Perhaps someday a future version will meet your needs.

Leap <http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/videos/leapTour.html>, what seems a rather neat alternative to the Finder, seems to support that, according to the video titled "A tour through Leap" (hint at the end) at <http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/video.html>.

I have not tried it and am not related to the developer.

Totally agree with "Ravenmoon" !!!
The new design of the feature is ridiculous, awfull and a big step backwards (as so many details and make-overs in the GUI... three updates to get a none-transparent menubar :-)) i don´t want to mention the dock and background designs... OMG)

Did they ever think of people who work with Apple Hard/Software? It seems the focus is on digital photos only... and Steve himself is shuffling his photo-library the whole day long 😟



@ Apple Dev and Designers:

• Display-Options for the icon preview, or back to Tiger Design, please!

Try Pic2icon it will address your issues. It will require a bit of time converting your icons if you have thousands of pics, just leave it going all night or something.