How to Change Finder Window Backgrounds

A lot of people I’ve talked to don’t know about customizing the Finder window background. This is very easy and requires no special software. So lets get started.

Open a Finder window and in the menubar navigate to View > Show View Options. (or ⌘ + J) From there you can choose a color or image for your finder backgrounds.

There are 3 options for backgrounds. A plane white background, colored or adding your own image as the background.

Here is a Finder window with a simple light blue color:

You can also tell Finder to use an image for the window background. I would suggest you use a large dimension like 1024×800 so when you enlarge the finder window you always see the image. But try to keep the files size down so load times are faster.

Here is a Finder window with a wood background:

This option can be used to create a transparent window look:

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