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Apple has just released iPhoto 9.1.5 and has continued its trend towards dull grey icons, which I really don’t like. So I’ve bundled up the coloured icons from 9.1.4 and simple instructions for their installation. Someday I might automate the installation, but for now it’s just a manual copy (and authenticate).

Download iPhoto9ColuredIcons

Update 2012-01-22: I’ve tested this in iPhoto 9.2.1 and it seems to be working fine.

Update 2012-05-08: I’ve tested this in iPhoto 9.2.3 and it seems to be working fine.

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15 Responses to “Restore colour to iPhoto 9.1.5”

  1. Rainer Says:
    July 18th, 2011 at 5:48 am

    Thanks!!
    the grey is stupid and dull.

  2. Ralf Says:
    July 25th, 2011 at 8:38 am

    Thx,
    Maybe Steve Jobs suffers a depressive mood.

  3. Charlie Says:
    July 27th, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    Nice job, though the icons from iLife ’09 would have been better. The icons in early ’11 were just too much! Perhaps this is what Apple had intended — for us to hate the original ’11 icons so that the ‘dull grey’ ones for this and other Lion apps were more palatable.

  4. Johnnie Walker Says:
    August 19th, 2011 at 12:52 am

    Craig

    Huge thanks for this – so much nice to have some colour back.

    Regards

    Johnnie

  5. Erwin Says:
    October 29th, 2011 at 10:35 pm

    Thank you, Craig. Now we’re back to a life in colour. So much more joyful!

  6. Filip Says:
    January 3rd, 2012 at 12:47 am

    Thanks a lot!

    Is there any chance to add photo stream (for RECENT) and facebook (for WEB)? I tried to find them manually in the resources folder and was able to find the grey photo stream one, but not the fb.

    Regards,

    Filip

  7. Filip Says:
    January 5th, 2012 at 10:30 pm

    Great tip, works like a charm, also on OS X Lion!

  8. craig Says:
    January 5th, 2012 at 11:25 pm

    It’s been a while since I looked but I was sure I got everything I could. Maybe FaceBook and Photo Stream were not available in the previous version of iPhoto.

  9. DD Says:
    January 22nd, 2012 at 8:34 am

    Hey! Does it work with 9.2.6??

    cuz I was trying to do it on my iPhoto and when I compare the downloaded folder,

    and my resources folder they do not match,..

    Do you want me to just put the icon folder into my resources folder?

    Thank you!!!!

  10. craig Says:
    January 22nd, 2012 at 10:01 am

    It works for me in iPhoto 9.2.1. What you need to do is put the *contents* of the downloaded icons folder into the Resources folder. The folder called “icons” does not move into the app.

  11. Rio Says:
    February 21st, 2012 at 12:32 am

    I’ve tried what Craig wrote on 22/1/12 and this worked. Thanks for providing these to restore the colour icons.

  12. Rachel M. Says:
    May 23rd, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    Just wanted to say thanks! So excited to have the color back.

  13. Jeffrey Says:
    July 13th, 2012 at 12:55 am

    Anyone check to see if this works on the new Macbook Retina display?

  14. Daniel Says:
    August 14th, 2012 at 11:34 pm

    Any change for Aperture to get its color back?

  15. craig Says:
    August 15th, 2012 at 2:26 am

    I don’t know. I haven’t got Aperture so I haven’t looked.