Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Jaguar Edition, The

Creating Your Own Icons

You can create your own icons and apply them to any existing icons, and you can copy icons from one file and apply them to another.

Although this can be a wonderful trick, I don’t like to encourage beginners to change all their icons because that original icon tells you so much information. If you start changing icons, how do you know what will happen when you double-click? Is this object a folder that will open to a window, or is it an application, a document, a system icon, or what? Just be sensible.

• Open an OS X graphic program like AppleWorks (paint or draw). Or use any clipart or photo image instead.

• In the graphic program, create the little picture that you want as your icon. No matter what size you make the art, ...