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Alternatively, select Edit Picture to resize your image, choose a picture from your Mac or take a snap with your iSight camera. Now click on your startup icon and select a new one.

To change your account icon, open System Preferences and select the Accounts pane. Download desktop wallpapers to your hard drive and navigate to them through the Desktop & Screensaver preference pane, or if you're using Snow Leopard, right- or Ctrl-click in Finder and select Set Desktop Picture from the contextual menu.

Make sure you use the correct size image for your monitor (you can check what size you need in the Display preference pane). There are thousands of wallpapers available online too. You can use a picture stored in iPhoto directly from the Desktop & Screensaver pane, or from iPhoto's Share menu. And if you really wanted, you can even set it up to change the picture at userdefined intervals.īut you're not restricted to using desktop wallpapers supplied with the operating system. If you prefer to work from a plain desktop, you can set it as a solid colour. The easiest way to change over your desktop image is to open up System Preferences (find it under the Apple menu), open the Desktop & Screensaver pane and select one of the designs on offer. It's the icon creator of choice for the professionals. Iconfactory's IconBuilder is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks. It doesn't scale up to the maximum 512x512 images offered by Snow Leopard, but who actually displays their icons that large anyway? CandyBar 3 costs $29 (about £20), but you get a 15-day, 250-icon trial to evaluate it.įolder Icon X makes it really easy to badge your folders with icons or images. It's easy to use, and can mod your Dock as well as your icons. You need an icon management app called CandyBar. To remove it, open the Info window and highlight the icon, and press Delete to reset it to the default icon for that file or folder.Ĭhanging system icons such as the Trash and Finder's Dock icon is a trickier proposition. Highlight the icon in the top-left of this window, and press Command+v to paste. Now highlight the file or folder you wish to 'badge' with the new icon, and press Command+I again.