Using CursorCreate

A guide to using CursorCreate on macOS for the purpose of using it with Mousecape

Tutorial is made using macOS Catalina 10.15.5 and latest releases of both Mousecape and CursorCreate. You won't see Mousecape in action in this tutorial. I'll let you try these conversions yourself. There's always asking for assistance on the Mousecape repo 😀

You should begin by downloading CursorCreate from: https://github.com/isaacrobinson2000/CursorCreate/releases

For the purpose of following all the steps in this wiki entry I suggest downloading:

http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-set/hello-kitty-3

You can read all about the workings of CursorCreate on its repository too.

CursorCreate is being described like this on its repository:

A Multi-platform Cursor Theme Building Program.

CursorCreate allows you to build cursor themes for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. It supports reading cursors from svg, xcur, cur, ani, and all image formats supported by the Pillow imaging library. Also includes a GUI for easily modifying cursor projects.

Now we're using CursorCreate and the Hello Kitty cursor set for the duration of this wiki entry.

Please, look at the imbedded images and watch the video too. This is a tutorial made on the notion that the above-mentioned files are downloaded.

Opening the CursorCreate program is now in the Dock on macOS

Now, the Hello Kitty cursor post-download

Here's a demonstration of the CursorCreate main window with highlighted placeholders for what comes next

Let's add in Hello Kitty cursors to these placeholders

Tip: the placeholder images are clickable - so feel free to try clicking on them. Also this is what I do in the GIF animation

Let's save our sample

Export result

A small movie to demonstrate some of the things mentioned in this wiki entry