Folder Factory review: Take the blahs out of OS X's folder icons
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If you’re tired of looking at the generic blue Mac folders, there are many ways to spruce them up. One simple and fun way is to use Folder Factory 1.8 (Mac App Store link) to customize your folder icons with color, photos and text.
Launch Folder Factory and you’re presented with an attractive application window divided into four sections: the Folder section, the Picture section, the Text section, and a large Preview window.
The first step to fancifying your icons is to drag and drop the folder icon you’d like to customize into the Folder section of the app window. Once added, the standard blue tabbed finder folder appears in the Preview window. Using the intuitive tools, you can now change the color, the color intensity and the opacity of the folder. All of your changes show automatically in the Preview window.
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