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
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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 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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