![]() ![]() So you can really quickly go and do something. As a matter of fact I can go in to this folder graphic here and I still have this letter here as a separate piece on top so I can change that to something else and now I can select All, Copy, and then Paste that as another folder image in the Finder. Once you get this technique down though it is really easy to quickly create something. You can just start from scratch and create a completely new square image and then use that as the folder icon rather than doing this simple method of just quickly creating it. Of course if you do have something like Photoshop or Acorn or Pixelmator or something like that you can create all of sorts of things. Lots of things you can do here without having to go into another graphics program. So I have all sorts of weird things that I can do. I can do all sorts of things like, for instance, adjust the colors so I can adjust the color of this entire graphic and change it to something else. If I go back to Preview I can add more characters here. Now there is all sorts of different things I can do. So I have successfully changed that folder. So if I look here at the smaller size for the icon I can see the letter A is there as well. The cool thing about pasting a graphic in as opposed to an icon file is that it automatically interprets that single graphic in all the different sizes. Make sure that the folder is selected and I'm going to paste. Now I can hide Preview and go back to the info window here for my folder. Now I've copied this image into the buffer. But it is even easier if I were to just use the selection tool here and do Command A for select all and then do Command C for copy. I can save it out and it will save it as an image file. Now I want to put this back into the icon. ![]() I'm going to keep it here something pretty big so it's large compared to the size of the folder. So I'm going to hit the Text tool here and I'm going to type just the letter A. I'm going to edit it by going to Tools here and then just typing some text. So I've got this second document that's just a regular image. This time instead of an icon being copied and put in the document just this image, the first part of the icon is. Then I'm going to do New From Clipboard again. Notice the first part of the icon is selected and I'm going to do Copy again. So instead I'm going to just simplify things. But that is a pain to change every single one of these different pieces of this icon here. Now I can customize this icon by changing each one of these. You can see here on the left all the different sizes represented. I will get a new document created that has what I've copied. Now when I run Preview I am going to be able to then go to File, New from Clipboard. So I'm going to use Preview which is built in. Now I want to do this simply not using any extra software that you need to download or anything else. When of the things that I can do now that I have selected it is I can copy it. Notice how it now shows that it is selected when I do that. So I'm going to go to File and Get Info with that folder selected. I can do that by customizing the icon here so it is not the same as these other folders. I want to make this one stand out a little bit. Now say I've got in my Documents folder I have all these folders here. I want to show you how to create a custom folder icon for anything in the Finder. On today's episode let's look at how to create a simple custom icon for folders or files. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. ![]() ![]() Check out Simple Custom Icons at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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