I could also have just selected the folder, not brought up the Get Info window, and do Command C on the folder itself. Now I'm going to select the icon here at the top left and do Edit, Copy. Now to get the icon for it, so we can edit it, I want to select it and then I can go to File, and then Get Info which is Command i. You can do a lot with just the Preview app to customize these folders. For now let's just use what's built into our Mac which is the Preview app.

I'm going to talk more about that later on. You can also use an Image Editor if you've got one.

Now you can create your own custom icons using just the apps you have on your Mac. What I would like to do is have custom icons for all of those. Here I have a bunch of folders on my desktop and they're using the standard blue folder icon from macOS. That way you can easily pick out each folder and know what's inside. So if you have a bunch of folders on your desktop or in your Documents folder you may want to customize the icons. There you can read more about it, join us, and get exclusive content. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 500 supporters. Today let me show you how to create custom icons to use for folders on your Mac. Check out How To Create Custom Folder And Drive Icons For Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

Free macbook folder icons