Copying an Image: Copy an image from another file. If you like the look of another file icon, navigate. When you install the Microsoft OneDrive sync app for Mac, a copy of your OneDrive is downloaded to your Mac and put in the OneDrive folder. This folder is kept in sync with OneDrive. If you add, change, or delete a file or folder on the OneDrive website, the file or folder is added, changed, or deleted in your OneDrive folder and vice versa.

Hey, Pixels! In this week’s tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to change your basic blue folder icons on your Mac and PC, into creative, fun folders for you to organize your files. Customizing your folder icons is super easy on both Mac and PC’s. Be sure to download my set of free custom emoji folders for your computer. This set includes 30 free customized folders with five special edition XO PIXEL folders inspired by the XO PIXEL sticker pack! Also, check out these cool gradient folders created by Una, which inspired this tutorial. Now, follow the steps below to change your folder icons on either your Mac or PC.

Mac Computers

1. First, open the custom folder icon in preview (right-click on image > open with preview)
2. Once the image has been opened in Preview, cmd+C or go to edit > copy so that the image is on your clipboard
3. Right-click on the folder you wish to customize and select “Get info”
4. Select the tiny folder icon and the very top-left corner in the “Get info” window then cmd+V to paste
5. Have fun with your new folder icon!

Windows Computers

Follow the steps below to customize the folder icons on your PC:

1. Right-click on the folder icon you wish to customize and click “Properties”
2. Click on the “Customize” tab, go to the “Folder icons” section and then click on “Change icons”
3. Click “Browse” and find the customized icon you wish to replace it with > click “Ok”
4. Enjoy your new customized folder icon!

We’ve all seen a classic Mac desktop: The outer-space or mountain-like background filled with medium-sized blue folders. It doesn’t look bad at all, but I’m sure more than one of you wish you could customize at least a few aspects of that appearance.

Well, there are actually quite a few ways to do this. This time, we will show you a couple of simple and fast tips that you can implement in just a few minutes that will completely change your desktop’s look using your Mac’s own built-in options.

Let’s get going:

Arrange and Adjust How Your Desktop Items are Displayed

The Show View Options is a tool that allows you to easily customize your Mac’s desktop appearance to a great degree. To open it, right click on any empty part of your desktop and select Show View Options.

This will open a settings panel where you will be able to adjust a series of elements of your desktop’s look and feel. Here’s what you can do with them:

Icon Size and Grid Spacing: The first slider, the one for Icon Size is pretty self-explanatory. Sliding it left or right will either decrease or increase the size of your desktop icons respectively. The other slider (Grid Spacing) might be a bit harder to explain unless you actually use it though: It allows you to adjust the space between the icons on your desktop.

Using both of these sliders you can have, say, a desktop with big icons, each quite apart from the other or a desktop with small icons all very close together.

Text Size and Location: The next section of the Show View Options panel allows you to select the size of the text of your Mac’s desktop icons, as well as to choose if it will be located to the right or to the bottom of each icon or folder.

My suggestion: If you plan to display more than just the name of the icon or folder (more on that on our next point), place the text to the right, since it gives the text more room and things look better organized that way. Otherwise just leave text at the bottom.

Additional Item Information: The last section on the Show View Options panel lets you choose if you would like to see more item information about your folders or other elements lying around. Examples of this can be your hard drive’s available storage, the number of items in a folder and more.

Additionally, you can choose if elements like image icons show as mini-previews of files or as generic icons.

Last but not least, you can also use the Sort by: option to choose how items on your desktop are sorted.

Change How Icons and Folders Look Like

Are you tired of the old, blue color that all your Mac’s folders sport by default? You are not the only one. Thankfully, changing not only the color, but the entire icons of folders and drives lying around on your desktop is a snap.

To do it, first find and download a folder icon set that you like. Here’s a website were you can find some great ones for free for example. Once downloaded, open the image you want to use in Preview, choose Select All from the Edit menu and then click on Copy on that same Edit menu.

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Now, right-click on the folder which icon you want to change and select Get Info from the available options. Click on the folder icon at the top left of the Info panel and then choose Paste from the Edit menu. Your folder now has completely new look!

That’s it for now. Use these two tips, couple them with a new desktop image and see how your entire Mac desktop acquires a new, fresh personality. Enjoy!

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