A very useful and informative video tutorial today! How fun! As always thanks for the visuals! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️
@meeluanistyn1644 Жыл бұрын
I wondered what I could do with Freeform and now I know. Great tutorial 👍
@Chazd19495 ай бұрын
This is so cool! I have a zillion file folders and often click on the wrong one because they all look alike. Now I can improve my aim when I see a folder's unique appearance. THANKS, Gary!
@enigmatist6667 ай бұрын
Fantastic! Thank you! I really like that you can replace the folder image with another image, rather than just plonking an image on the folder. I'm studying several languages and now changing the relevant folder to an image of the country's flag. Another thing that's great is that this isn't limited to folder images but can also be used with, say, a Pages document image. :)
@perrysrc Жыл бұрын
This will keep me busy now
@ptysme9 күн бұрын
Such a cool trick, I was looking for a custom icon that matched other folders on icon hosting sites and this video was recommended. Brilliant!
@quiltsick Жыл бұрын
BTW, I love Freeform on my iPad. I am a quilter & it is fun to collect & arrange quilt photos. Going to work on creating grandkids photos in it too
@summawub5 ай бұрын
You teach me amazing tricks every week. Thank you.
@AnilAtluriWord Жыл бұрын
Wow! Gary, the image replacing the folder is a great idea. Thanks.
@amichaels-v3 Жыл бұрын
You've got some serious skillz, Gary.
@davidcking7 Жыл бұрын
This is a fabulous tutorial, Gary. Very cool. Thanks. As always, you make things interesting and easy. Much appreciated. I used to play with folder customization back in OS9 but gave up with OSX. Now I'm inspired to explore this some more and make up some custom folder icons.
@andrewfinch2009 Жыл бұрын
Fun and useful. It’s great to see topics that go beyond utility. Great video, Gary
@Erin-Thor Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this‼️ 🥰 Once again I find myself thinking I know this, I’ve done this… then YOU make me go wait, WHAT⁉️ and I rewind to discover that I can create data points in a line to precisely match the entire folders contour. 😱🤯🤓 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO! ❤
@macmost Жыл бұрын
Commercial? Do you mean the KZbin ad? I don't place those. KZbin does it.
@Erin-Thor Жыл бұрын
@@macmost - I know that silly, it was a joke! 🥰
@macmost Жыл бұрын
@@Erin-Thor Unfortunately, years and years of answering KZbin comments has trained me to always assume comments are literal. Because often when I don't I get in trouble or someone upset. Even when the author of the comment is joking, others reading it take it seriously. Sigh.
@Erin-Thor Жыл бұрын
@@macmost - I’ll edit that to take out the bra commercial comment, LOL! And on a serious note… chill! Life’s to short to take comments from strangers seriously. You ROCK! Own that! 👍🏽
@macmost Жыл бұрын
@@Erin-Thor Thanks. Yeah, I know what you mean. And believe me I don't care when someone sends me a message/email. It is when it is a public comment I have to take it seriously because I know others will. Not this case, just harmless comment about an ad. But you can imagine some of the other comments I've seen after being on KZbin since 2007.
@jcinaz Жыл бұрын
Nice! I never thought I would use Freeform, now I just did.
@RocknRollCEO Жыл бұрын
This is what I've been needing for 'kin ages! Thanks!
@nilsdelmonico Жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@jeffreysmith5970 Жыл бұрын
Great Video! I wish Apple allowed this to work across devices in iCloud.
@homesbydanbyers Жыл бұрын
I love this! I can find my most used folders in a second now!
@jeanwillis2646 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Gary I’m now busy putting ‘photo’ image’s onto my folders….great idea and fun to do…you are my 🦸🏻♂️
@artysanmobile Жыл бұрын
Believe it or not, folders have been copy paste capable in the Get Info window from the early days of OSX, certainly Tiger if not even earlier. I find a custom folder icon very useful. Thanks for this tip.
@macmost Жыл бұрын
Yes, that part isn't new. Freeform is.
@artysanmobile Жыл бұрын
@@macmost You are correct. And I’m delighted to know about it. Thanx.
@jdcv1710 ай бұрын
Macs should already have something similar to Softrino's Folder Colorizer. Anyways, thanks for the tutorial! I'm always amazed.
@macmost10 ай бұрын
You mean a third-party app that lets you create custom folder icons? There are many.
@jdcv1710 ай бұрын
@@macmost Yeah, the Folder Colorizer by Softrino is a third-party app. But what I meant is Macs should already have that folder colorizer feature instead of relying on and purchasing third-party apps or editing through Photoshop or Freeform. Apple should make customizing folders easy! Well, we can customize icons on iPhones easily so why not on Macs as well?!
@mr_teevee11 ай бұрын
I use GIMP, and you've just given me more ideas!
@marceloproano2537 Жыл бұрын
Didn’t know this. Hopefully I can find time to update some of my folders that I think would benefit me to have customized.
@jaddyjustineokude9460 Жыл бұрын
My goat Gary. Thanks been missing u. I was out abit
@MaiElizabeth Жыл бұрын
OK Now I have different take on Freeform! Thanks Gary.
@sevi_kefalianou5 ай бұрын
Thank you! :)
@MobySlick5 ай бұрын
Super nice video. Thanks a lot, dude!
@stephenjones53917 ай бұрын
Really good and helpful, thank you.
@davem3325 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Gary, Folder icons are great for Project based hardware design work, I work on several design hardware projects at the same time, I keep my active projects on the desktop until the project is completed, The other week i actually said, it would be nice to have a picture of the product on the folder for quicker recognition, So i made a crude image and pasted it to the folder icon, its great, but process was fiddly, I have freeform, so lets see if its a little easier.
@Manuel_Manzotti6 ай бұрын
Great tip! Thank you! 🙏
@carolinebarlow4795 Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much, Gary, for this very informative video! This will keep me happy for hours 🙂
@jonathanjones906 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this! I have just decorated my iCloud folders on my Mac. It is a pity that the customisation is not picked up when you access the folders on my iPhone! Perhaps a future update.
@socksistavideo7399 Жыл бұрын
love this! thanks gary
@anandbhutkar Жыл бұрын
love it, thanks for shearing
@SoNowWhat Жыл бұрын
Cool tip!
@wudaliabhinavprasad Жыл бұрын
Superb video, many thanks for sharing!
@markparker5585 Жыл бұрын
Be aware, if you add text to the folder, and the bounding box of the text is wider than the folder graphic, the folder will be scaled down, so make sure to use the centre drag handles on the text box after you have the font size you want.
@karansmittal Жыл бұрын
Very useful! Thanks
@PurpleYeti1 Жыл бұрын
Awesome tip - thanks!
@quiltsick Жыл бұрын
My Mac Mini is too old for Ventura. I am still on Monterey. I am always jealous because I miss out on fun stuff!
@robertgleason2838 Жыл бұрын
outstanding info. Thank you
@MStrong95 Жыл бұрын
What would be nice for folders is if you could have an automated process taking an icon sized folder preview PNG image that is in the folder and if that image is updated it would update the icon of that folder it's contained within. Maybe add some kind of logic for subfolders inheriting the custom icon of the folder one level up unless there's a custom PNG or text file that says otherwise.
@robertoalvarez3533 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video
@lindagacsko2 ай бұрын
Your videos are so well done AND your explanation and examples are excellent. I appreciate that you don't' go so fast and miss steps when you are explaining. thank you. I have a question. I have saved the freeform Board. This might be evident, however my question is, if I create 6 different color folders on that board, can I duplicate them and then copy and past new images on them? Please advise. Thank you again!
@macmost2 ай бұрын
Sure. You can just alter it like you want, select the part you want, and then use that for an icon. Experiment with that. Play around and see. It is easy to create a bunch of empty folders and try setting their icons to things.
@lindagacsko2 ай бұрын
@@macmost thank you!
@frvnzz Жыл бұрын
thank you king
@Erin-Thor Жыл бұрын
King? He is a Mac God! 😂
@user-ph8xh6bj1l Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the video. Very interesting and informative. Unfortunately on other devices the changes are not visible. Is there any possibility that when you make changes in the icloud they will be visible on other devices as well?
@macmost Жыл бұрын
Would be great for Apple to add that in the future, I agree.
@michaelopp5389 Жыл бұрын
This is really cool. Sadly these customized folder icons are not visible in the Folders app in the iPad OS. 😢
@jeffharmed1616 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Gary. Do you have to leave space for the “shared folder” background? Oh and your procedure does not seem to work for shares folder?’?! It’s all quite puzzling why Apple created freeform, preview and photos editor each with overlapping graphics editing capabilities. For example freeform & photoeditor can crop an image but preview cannot. Then there is Keynote that can do everything that freeform can do and more!?
@macmost Жыл бұрын
They are each tools for a specific purpose (Keynote for presentations, Preview to work with images and files, etc. But there is an overlap in the functionality that you would want in those tools. You wouldn't want to have to crop something in Preview before bringing it into Freeform. FYI you can easily crop an image in Preview by selecting an area and then use Tools, Crop.
@parth8687 Жыл бұрын
genius
@GozoAya Жыл бұрын
Amazing! Where do you find these hidden gems!! This is really useful. I wonder is there also a way to modify the folder icon that appears in the left pane of the finder window? I keep a bunch of favourites there, but the modified graphic of the folder does not come across. Just the usual uncoloured folder outline. Thanks, as always, Gary, for super information!
@macmost Жыл бұрын
No, those are a different sort of thing, just a symbol from a font.
@TC-en7vi6 ай бұрын
Hi ninja! Thank you so much for this video! Very cool! Some how after I did my creations they went back to normal... What could I did wrong!?!
@macmost6 ай бұрын
Not sure. Try re-applying the images in the info window.
@TC-en7vi6 ай бұрын
Thanks!@@macmost
@alangarretson872 Жыл бұрын
Cool - do you think this could be done on an iPad with iOS 16.2 and use them on the Mac? Also, do you think there is a way to change Safari Icons for websites that don't have icons?
@macmost Жыл бұрын
You mean create the icons in Freeform on the iPad. Sure, I suppose. Seems like extra work as opposed to just doing it in Freeform on the Mac. Browser "favicon" are a different thing altogether and those must come from the website itself.
@bPrestonL Жыл бұрын
Do the custom icons persist after an os update? Love your channel!
@macmost Жыл бұрын
They should, yes.
@jacquelinedolby7559 Жыл бұрын
Gary this is just so cool! I have a bunch of folders I want to customize. The first folder came out fine but the other folders just are not pasting onto the folder that shows at the top left of the info page... What am I doing wrong?
@macmost Жыл бұрын
Not sure what you could be doing wrong. Are you selecting the icon first? Are you sure you copied the item from inside the graphic first? Keep trying.
@linellstewartjr21476 ай бұрын
I think it only works with folders on the laptop not external
@stevejacob4375 Жыл бұрын
A great tutorial, thank you I have been waiting for something like this. Just one comment, Please take it slower so it's easier to take notes. thanks again.
@macmost Жыл бұрын
You can speed up, slow down and pause KZbin videos. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2aVZ42Fas6Uba8
@jasonward8088 ай бұрын
Another great tutorial! Can someone please explain to me why my custom icons will sometimes just vanish, especially on an external drive. I do this same thing but then they're all gone at times. Thank you kindly!
@macmost8 ай бұрын
Perhaps the format of the external drive? It should be Mac formatted to support custom icons.
@galato4234 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video. Please tell us how to get the application. Thank you.
@macmost Жыл бұрын
Freeform comes with macOS. It is new in macOS Ventura.
@galato4234 Жыл бұрын
@@macmost Thank you for your response.
@rwbishop Жыл бұрын
For ages now, I've made my USB flash drive icons bright red... making them a 'little' harder to leave behind.
@perrysrc Жыл бұрын
Will these new folders be backed up with pictures on with Time Machine ?
@macmost Жыл бұрын
Probably. Haven't tested. But folder icons are just cosmetic, so in a disaster they aren't nearly as important as your actual files or photos, etc.
@schuilnaam85 Жыл бұрын
unfortunately, those adjustments are only visible on the mac not on icloud / iphone
@MegaStarr10Ай бұрын
beam trying to do this for years with the preview way not working, to separate external hard drives and back ups by colour. ensuring all my photos are labelled the same etc, years of resisting photos app which I still dont like and back ups and back ups of duplicates I want colours and tags ae useless. the fact we have to go to these lengths though is a little shameful from apple im afraid! May as well use illustrator to shape the folder icon I mean come on, Another way after 19 years of loyal apple seem to be slipping but makes your videos so fantastic and the only ones I refer to
@1958jem Жыл бұрын
Gary, I am finding that file folders that are in iCloud only (showing the download arrow) do not copy the folder onto Freeform. Only files that are on my local machine seem to be able to be copied from the Info dialog box as you show. Is this your experience?
@sundaynightdrunk Жыл бұрын
Probably because the folder isn't local to the machine. You'd have to download it, and then change it and wait for it to be archived to iCloud again, although it will still only show the custom folder icon on your local machine.
@macmost Жыл бұрын
Try what @sundaynightdrunk suggested and see if that is your issue.
@desertpatient Жыл бұрын
Thanks bunches. I still have my circa 1986 Mac SE and Apple dot matrix printer in the attic. I have always held the belief that when a new folder is created, Apple should give the user some ability to customize the folder--at least change the color. I have watched all of the other videos on changing folders, but this seems the easiest for me to understand. I need to go back and watch your Freeform video's again as I thought I would ever use Freeform. The world in an icon based world new it seems and the concept of folders looking like "folders" is outdated. I really like the ability to just use icons instead of folders looking like folders. Would it be possible to use pictures from Photos? For instance my wife and I have a folder (looks like a folder) containing our life time documents. It would be so nice just to use a picture of us instead of a folder looking like a folder. Or to use a picture of our 1965 Mustang which we still have (bought new) on the folder that has information on the car? Kinda make sense what I am asking?
@macmost Жыл бұрын
Just copy a portion of an image (open in Preview, select an area or Command+A) then copy, then paste into the icon.
@brianhoward6793 Жыл бұрын
All good except when a custom folder is dragged from the Finder into the Dock, the modification goes away. Doing something wrong or is that just the way it works?
@macmost Жыл бұрын
Just tried it and it worked fine. Check your Options for that item in the Dock to make sure it is set to display as a Folder, not a Stack.
@normdorosh10 ай бұрын
HI Gary ..I tried changing the folder on my SSD card but it wouldn't work...Is there a workaround this? It only seems to work on the Macintosh Hardrive...thanks. Norm
@macmost10 ай бұрын
Maybe that drive isn't formatted for Mac?
@macforme7 ай бұрын
I have been making my own folder icons in Sierra for years... Just moved to Sonoma ( yes, I have whiplash) and you can't keep all that hard work on making your own icon if you make an alias, in Sonoma, to keep on the desktop. Have you covered this already? ... I am still trying to catch up... I upgraded, kicking and screaming ... but the net forced me to give up Sierra. 🤯
@macmost7 ай бұрын
You can still make custom icons for aliases, but they are separate from the original. You use exactly the same techniques, but just with the alias itself (select, get info, select icon, paste image).
@macforme7 ай бұрын
@@macmost Yes, I have been doing that but Sonoma still manages to remove those icons too. ( I solve 1 problem... I get 3 more. 🙄 )
@mulljacob Жыл бұрын
After clicking on the folder icon and trying to paste, in multiple ways, it doesn't change in Get Info. I know it's copied because I can paste it into a doc...
@cajunla.jtr.0057 Жыл бұрын
Man! Please use Dark Mode it's best for low vision people can see than liglhtl mode it's too bright. Could you please remake it and upload? Thanks!
@djr3386 Жыл бұрын
Is it possible to change the default folder colour in mac, so that all create new folder creates a new folder with red colour instead of blue colour?
@macmost Жыл бұрын
No, because folders don't have colors. They are just graphic icons and the default folder icon happens to be blue.
@djr3386 Жыл бұрын
@@macmost Is it possible to change the default folder icon colour from blue to a different colour?
@macmost Жыл бұрын
@@djr3386 There is no way to change the default icon.
3 ай бұрын
Does is sync with iCloud Drive?
@macmost3 ай бұрын
No, unfortunately not.
@Aviator5038 ай бұрын
Did all of this change under iOS Sonoma? Because none of this works for me whatsoever. I cannot copy/paste anything into Freeform in the way of icons or otherwise. Thanks for any and all help!
@macmost8 ай бұрын
This all works the same in Sonoma.
@Aviator5038 ай бұрын
Hello sir, thank you for getting back to me first of all! So, have you actually tried doing this in Sonoma? Because it’s not working for me at all. Specifically the part where you go to the info section of the folder, and then copy/paste the folder icon into Freeform. That part is specifically what’s not working whatsoever. It’s not allowing me to paste the folder image, give it a try if you hava a moment and let me know if you have any issues yourself, or if you can figure out a workaround for it, thank you!
@macmost8 ай бұрын
@@Aviator503 Yes. It works right now for me, today, in Freeform in Sonoma. Maybe try another folder? Make sure you select the icon so you see it highlighted before you use Command+c.
@Aviator5038 ай бұрын
@@macmost Hmmm, very interesting. Then it appears as though there is something wrong with my software. Perhaps it just requires a shut down and restart, as I've tried all those ideas and it's still not working. Hopefully a good restart fixes it. Thanks so much for your time and help!
@Tiago.LS.Ribeiro7 ай бұрын
@@Aviator503 the copy-paste part also doesn't work for me...
@TheChapin333 Жыл бұрын
Just clip art or can you use a photo image?
@jeanwillis2646 Жыл бұрын
Yes, you can use photo images I’ve just done some 7:44
@macmost Жыл бұрын
Anything you want. Try it and see.
@TheChapin333 Жыл бұрын
@@macmost thanks I’ll give it a go
@TheChapin333 Жыл бұрын
@@jeanwillis2646 doesn’t work on an iPad unfortunately
@jeanwillis2646 Жыл бұрын
@@TheChapin333….The title of the video is Creating Custom Mac folder icons….’ So I didn’t think you could create on an iPad maybe someday…..
@pulsar.7 ай бұрын
it says freeform can only be installed on iphones or ipads
@macmost7 ай бұрын
Freeform is part of macOS. It comes with it. Make sure you have macOS 13.1 or newer and look in your Application folder and it should be there.
@VladislavPerge Жыл бұрын
1 thing to keep in mind is that these icons DO NOT SYNC across iCloud or anything. They are local only.
@BU_89grad22dad7 ай бұрын
"My Mac Talk" shows how to change the color of the folder: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHavl4Fpjal7oc0
@macmost7 ай бұрын
I showed the same technique a while back: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5zYk4CIi7-inNk
@TheChapin333 Жыл бұрын
Doesn’t work on iPad , its the only device I use now. Have tried to copy it but it does nothing. Ah well
@macmost Жыл бұрын
There are no custom icons in the Files app on the iPad.