How to Customize Macintosh Desktop Icons

With a Macintosh, it's quite easy to use your own pictures for any icons - document, application, folder or whatever.

Things You'll Need

• Macintosh Computers
• Paint Programs

Instructions

1. Create, copy or scan an image file into a paint program.

2. Copy the image to the Clipboard by pressing Command-C.

3. Select the icon you want to use the picture with.

4. Open the File menu and choose Get Info, or press Command-I.

5. Click in the box at the upper left corner of the Get Info dialog box.

6. Press Command-V to paste the image into the box, and voilà - your new image will be used for the icon picture.

Tips & Warnings

• Mac icon images are 32 by 32 pixels. You can attempt to use a larger image, but it might get shrunken in a strange way.