OS X customization questions...

cyko95cyko95
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in macOS edited January 2014
This is such a simple thing to do i'm sure, but how in the world do you customize what icon a shorcut uses? I hate that standard paper with "A" on it icon for some shortcuts. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />

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  • Reply 1 of 13
    cudaboy_71cudaboy_71 Posts: 12member
    you mean like hitting cmd-i and pasting in a new one? or am i missing something?
  • Reply 2 of 13
    cyko95cyko95 Posts: 391member
    First off, is there a certain file I need to find to replace an icon with. Example - In winblows you have to have files named *.ico to use them as icons. Is that necessary? Can I use one from another program?



    Also when i find one that I like how do I "paste" it in the info screen? Do I just drag it in there or what?
  • Reply 3 of 13
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    find the source iconor file whose icon you want to copy. select it and hit apple-i to bring up the show info window. select the icon in the upper left of that pane and copy it (apple-c). now find the file whose icon you want to replace. show info again, select the icon and paste in the new one (apple-v). that's it.
  • Reply 4 of 13
    cyko95cyko95 Posts: 391member
    Well that was simple enough. Thanks for the tip. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 5 of 13
    scott f.scott f. Posts: 276member
    [quote]Originally posted by cyko95:

    <strong>Well that was simple enough. Thanks for the tip. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yet another one of the thousands of "little things" that make the Mac OS a more enjoyable (IMHO) Operating system to use than Windows?.



  • Reply 6 of 13
    amoryaamorya Posts: 1,103member
    [quote]Originally posted by cyko95:

    <strong>Well that was simple enough. Thanks for the tip. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Don't forget, you can do that for any file on a Mac, not just a shortcut



    Amorya
  • Reply 7 of 13
    gmongmon Posts: 13member
    [quote]Originally posted by Amorya:

    <strong>



    Don't forget, you can do that for any file on a Mac, not just a shortcut



    Amorya</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Shortcut? Whats a shortcut?



    You mean alias?
  • Reply 8 of 13
    cyko95cyko95 Posts: 391member
    Alias? Oh yeah, thats that TV show on ABC. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 9 of 13
    prestonpreston Posts: 219member
    um how do you make your own icons?
  • Reply 10 of 13
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Resedit

    IconMachine
  • Reply 11 of 13
    cyko95cyko95 Posts: 391member
    Well, when one icon loves another icon... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 12 of 13
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by Aquatik:

    <strong>Resedit </strong><hr></blockquote>ResEdit?? For Mac OS X?? Eww, no!!!



    Use <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11842&db=mac"; target="_blank">Iconographer</a>.



    Do your drawing in Photoshop, Illustrator, or the like and then either paste the finished product into the Finder's Show Info window or paste it into Iconographer for better masking controls.



    Alternatively, you could use the free IconComposer with Apple's Dev Tools, but it's pretty limited in functionality. It just does straight copying for the various depths, sizes, and masks.
  • Reply 13 of 13
    frogstompfrogstomp Posts: 1member
    Another great and fast little Freeware Icon Creation app is Pic2Icon <a href="http://www.sugarcubesoftware.com"; target="_blank">http://www.sugarcubesoftware.com</a>;



    You can drop any of your pictures onto this app and automatically transform them into Icons. Also handy for Batching Icons.





    Cheers!
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