wide or tall images make the arrangement of folders odd and messy.

Always use a square (or nearly square) image.

For example, if it is a folder full of video clips you want to upload to YouTube, then why not a YouTube logo image? Quick-tips: So it’s a great idea to pick something eye-catching but logical. To avoid this choose or create a square image that is either an icon already (like a logo) or one that you will definitely associate with the folder contents!

Warning: if you choose a photo that looks like, well, a photo, your eye and brain might get tricked into thinking that the folder with the new custom icon is actually an image file! The beauty of this tip is that you can choose any photo as the source for your icon.Ī great idea is to use something that relates to the contents of the folder and will help you to quickly identify it when searching through a bunch of folders on your desktop or nested inside another folder. Next: choosing the best icon for your favorite folders There is also a preview of the icon down below, slightly larger, but this is just to see the current icon, so our business is with the one above. In it you will see the various data as described above, and, in the upper left a small box that contains the default icon, which for folders is…. You can also right-click and choose “get-info”, Once you select the file and hit the info window will pop up. To access the “get info” window use the keyboard shortcut. It has data like the file size, type and date created, as well as other special data, including the icon. “get info” is a useful way to quickly access various info on a folder, file or app. The first step is to use the “get info” command to access the default icon storage. The trick we will show you today also works for Documents and Apps. Most useful of all is adding a custom icon for your most used and most important folders.

It just got a lot easier to customize icons for your mac.

Custom folder icons mac