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Making Custom Icons


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·Nov 3, 2024

Hey guys, Mac Heads 101 here. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to make a custom folder icon or application icon.

As you can see, my Limewire icon for my folder, my Limewire things that downloaded, has the little Limewire sign. So, how did I make that?

First, I made a new folder on my desktop. Second, I went into Applications, found Limewire, and I found the icon by control clicking on it. Inside, show package content, go under content resources. You find this and you press Command-C.

Now, we're going to want to open Preview. Under Applications, open Preview. Say File, New from Clipboard. That opens that up, but as an untitled.

Okay, so now we're going to get rid of that slide bar and select all, then copy it. Next, we're going to want to open this picture up, so you can just go into there, say Command-C, then say File, New from Clipboard. It's going to open the picture.

Now, we can get rid of that, and then Command-A, Command-C, and Command-V. That's going to paste it right over there. Now you can make this a little bit bigger.

Then you can just try to center it as best you can, and then make sure everything's unchecked. Now, you click Command-S, then say Untitled-2, save.

Now, quit Preview. Say Don't Save. Now, under your Documents, you should have another folder called Untitled-2. Rename that to Limewire.

We actually don't rename it to anything, you're going to want to say Open with Preview. Get rid of the slide bar again. Once again, select all by Command-A, Command-C.

Then, control click and then say Get Info or Command-I. Then, click on that until it gets a little blue. Press Command-V. That's going to replace that icon with the new icon you just made.

So, as you can see, you can delete that. I now have this folder with the icon I wanted. So, thank you very much. That's how you do it!

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