MAC FOLDER ICON COLOR HOW TO
MAC FOLDER ICON COLOR MAC

To change the color of this you would have to paste it first into another app, it could be an imaging editing app, it could be Preview, and then you could desaturate it and color it using coloring tools in those apps and make a different colored folder.īut it would be nice to be able to do that just here in Freeform. There is nothing in here that will allow you to do that.

With this folder here, that's an image you pasted in, and you can't change the color of it. But you can only do that because it is a shape. So if you're creating some file icons you can start off with one of these, maybe on of the default ones there, and then once you have that you can click it, change the color to some other color which is really nice. It would be nice if there was a shape for folder here. Now it gets a little more complex if you don't want to use the default folder image. I can Paste in once I've selected the icon here at the top left and you can see how easily now I can kind of have this factory and this area where I've saved all of these folder icons. If I select both of those, Copy, Return to the Finder, and select something else. I can use some sort of other object here for a new folder. Let me drag with the Option Key held down to make a duplicate of this folder here. I can now go back to Freeform and if I like I can create other ones here. You can see I've now got that custom icon there. Select the icon again and Command V to paste in. Then I'm going to switch back to the Finder here, go back to this folder, Command i to get the info on that folder there. I'm just going to do Command C there to copy. I'm going to select that and Shift Select the shape there or just drag and select both. So now I've got the exact image of the folder from the Finder. Round corners doesn't really come into it because the rounded corners here would have been part of the invisible part of that graphic. But the image already has a shadow because the folder image of the Finder has a shadow there. If I go to Format I notice that Shadow and Round Corners are checked. Now there is one other thing I want to do. So I can click on it once and click on the little color chip there and change it to a color I want or choose the Color Wheel here and then use the Color Picker to choose something that will standout more. Now let's resize it, make it maybe a more prominent color. Chart, well that turns up some interesting things. Business doesn't really turn up anything.

So I'm going to go to Shapes up here and I'm going to search for something that may be appropriate. I'm going to create a new board and I'm going to use Command V to paste the folder icon there. So now I've copied the current icon into the clipboard. Then I'm going to select the icon here and then Command C to Copy. So, I'm going to select it and then I'm going to use Command i to get info. So, for instance, let's say I want to take this business folder here and just create a custom folder icon with just a shape on it so I can pick it out from all these other folders quickly. But now we have a new tool in macOS Ventura and that's to use Freeform.

MAC FOLDER ICON COLOR MAC

Now if you like creating custom file and folder icons to see in the Finder on your Mac in the past you've had to use Image Editing apps, sometimes you can use Preview or perhaps Keynote or Pages to create them. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters.

MAC FOLDER ICON COLOR HOW TO

Let me show you how to create custom file and folder icons using Freeform. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.

Mac folder icon color