How do I change MacBook Pro Retina Icons

[Beebs81]

Hi there mac experts,
Im a new mac user, just moved over from windows.

I've managed to change my icons by downloading somone from internet but only if they are Unix Executibles Files.

When I paste a jpeg, ico, icns files, the icon shows as blank.

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but how do I create my own icons and what is the format which the latest Mountain Lion oSX 10.

😡

Thanks for your help. The skydrive icon is really bugging me, wouldn't mind throwing in a nice 3d icon.

Thanks again for your help.

🙂

 

[GGJstudios]

How to change the icon for any disk, app, file or folder

 

[Beebs81]

Your a star! I didn't realise i had to preview the file first. I was just right clicking them and selecting copy.

Many thanks GGJstudios

😀🙂😱

 

[nontroppo]

And if you want a great way of managing your downloaded icons, Candybar is now free (not now so useful for changing system icons, but still a great organiser)

http://www.panic.com/blog/2012/08/candybar-mountain-lion-and-beyond/

And you can get excellent icon sets from the IconFactory that work perfectly with Candybar:

http://iconfactory.com/freeware

 

[Dark Void]

There are also applications such as LiteIcon that will allow you to change the icons that cannot be changed with the traditional copy/paste method, such as the Finder and Trash.

EDIT: Guy above me beat me to it. =)