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Humans are, by nature, good visual learners.
That’s why visual things are engraved easier in our brain.
We will recognize faces in photos easier than listening to the description.
In the computer world, icons are an app’s visual representative and personal identity.
In terms of marketing, icons are the packaging and one of the selling points.
If you think I’m exaggerating, visit the iTunes Store and go to the iPhone applications department.
Mac is famous for its good looking icons.
I’m talking about changing icons for individual items using your own customized creation.
There are at least two ways to do that quickly and easily in Mac, manually and automatically.
The first method could be done if you’ve already have ready to use Mac icons.
Mac icons are in.icnsformat while Windows' is.ico.
The only one that I could find isiConvert.
This service will help you to convert images into Mac icons.
To use iConvert, you better browse and upload the image or icon file and click “Convert”.
As simple as that.
Changing Icons
Replacing icons in Mac is very easy.
The app is available in the paid version and the free version - with some features disabled.
But the free version is more than enough for daily uses.
The next step is another drag and drop.
This time, ‘the victim’ is the file or folder which needs the facelift.
The new icon will be attached without all the hassle.
Alternatively, you could save the new icon as an .icns file to be used later.
