Not long time ago (around 7-8 months), I've posted an article about How to Set Finder Background which teach you how to set custom image as your Finder background replacing the default solid white color.
Note: Don't see the cute icons, see the solid color background..
But, how if you want to set solid color as your Finder background?
You can follow these steps and I guarantee you will get your Finder background color changed.
- Open Finder.app
-
Press
J to Show up View Options(or you can use right-click ▸ Show View Options) -
Look at the bottom, the
Backgroundsection and enable Color radio button -
Now you can click on the square sampled color. There you can find a magnifier button as the color picker at the left side of the color bar.
You can even use that to pick nice color from UsingMac.com.
4 COMMENTS (RSS)
Evan
June 5th, 2008 Time: 10:27 AM
I hadn't even thought about changing the finder background... Thanks for the tip!
mpontoni
June 5th, 2008 Time: 12:15 PM
sorry, but i can't find color sampled anywhere and i would really like to try that option
Wendy
June 5th, 2008 Time: 12:23 PM
It's the magnifier button near the color bar, located just below the toolbar. Oh, I forgot to mention this: you need to Show items as icons to be able to change the background. :)
mpontoni
June 6th, 2008 Time: 02:24 PM
wendy, that tip with thumbnail preview was helpful ;-)) thank you
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