How to Customize Macintosh Desktop Icons

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

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Macintosh Computers
  • Paint Programs
Step1
Create, copy or scan an image file into a paint program.
Step2
Copy the image to the Clipboard by pressing Command-C.
Step3
Select the icon you want to use the picture with.
Step4
Open the File menu and choose Get Info, or press Command-I.
Step5
Click in the box at the upper left corner of the Get Info dialog box.
Step6
Press Command-V to paste the image into the box, and voilĂ  - 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.

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