Creating your own icons can make your Mac stand out from the crowd. For this weeks Mac Daddy Monday post, here is a link from Mac Life by Adam Berenstain.
Even if you aren’t a professional icon designer, you can still
customize icons with your own creations. In most cases, all you need are
the graphics programs you already have on your Mac.
In iPhoto,
select the thumbnail of the picture you want to use as an icon, then
right-click and select Copy. In the Finder, select the item with an icon
you want to replace, then right-click and choose Get Info. Click the
old icon in the Get Info screen, press Command-V to paste your picture,
and you’re done. For better results, duplicate the picture in iPhoto,
crop it constrained as a square to highlight a face or other cool
detail, then paste that image over the old icon.
Click here for the original article.
I found that if you use any png file, then open it in preview, then select all (command + a) then copy (command + c) and paste (command + v) it to the small image in the top left in the "get info" window it seems to work even when the other method does not. I've used this method to get some of my own cartoon work from illustrator as icons.
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