Customization of your Mac is one of the best ways to bring your personality to your Mac. And what better place for us to start talking about customization than with the About This Mac screen. Now some of you might not even know where to find this screen. So to begin click on the Apple logo in the top left, and the first item you will see is About This Mac
This is what you will see before you do any customizing.
What we intend to do is customize the image that you see in this screen. To start goto Finder and locate /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app
If you have trouble finding this folder you might be looking in your current users home folder and not the root folder of your computer. From here you will then need to right click and click Show Package Contents, and find /Contents/Resources/MacOSX.tif
Make a backup copy of this file to somewhere you can find it, so you can change it back if you want. Then find any new image you’d like, making sure that the new image is the same size image as the current one. When you have your image ready, just rename is to MacOSX.tif and place it in the location above.
To make sure it all works, just Logout and Login again to see changes. Here what I got when I was done. If you get a chance to customize your About This Mac Screen, we’d love to see it. Just post a link to the image so we can all check it out.
Thanks for that.
I did it. And yes, I am a nerd:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/3072943706_2d5d2475e3.jpg?v=0
That’s awesome Jared. Love it.
Hi.. where can i find some cool image to replace the one thats already on “About this Mac”?
I’m new to Mac and loving every minuted of it, so i dont know how the the size of the file and the type so a little help would be appreciate. i like the one in the article and the one posted by jared.. nice..
@Jared — That is sweet.
@Jaymes — The official image itself is 214pixels by 124 pixels and in TIFF format. You can use google’s image search (http://images.google.ca/) to find images and then if you don’t have an image editor already (i.e. photoshop, gimp, etc.) you can use an online free version of Photoshop here — https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html
Or if you ask Daryl really nice he might even do up an AboutThisMac.com version for you since I’m sure that’s what you’re REALLY after.
Hi ichris, thanks for the info. that was exactly the kind of info i was searching for on how to edit such a image and don’t mind learning how to edit images which will come in handy for me by the way.
PS @Darly, i would appreciate it very much if you would share one of your image. lol
Good information, keep working man. I like your website. Cheers~~~~