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Customize Leopard Dock Background Images

Posted by Scott | November 1, 2007 .

One of the first things you’ll notice when you instal Leopard is that the dock has changed quite a bit. It’s more polished and of course has Apples favorite effect - the reflection. Most people like the new look, others hate it. If you’re in the latter camp then you’ll like this. If you haven’t seen yet, the dock can be customized to pretty much anything you want using a series of 4 images.

Check out the 2 below that are available for download from The Apple Blog.

Sky:

Wood:

To install the custom backgrounds for your dock just go into System/Library/CoreServices/ right-click on Dock and select “show package contents”.  Once here go into Contents and then resources.  Copy the image files here, but be sure to back up the original files if you want to revert back to the default leopard appearance.

Once the images are in place, go into terminal and type killall dock - this will close the dock and restart it. When it comes back up your new background should be in place.

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3 Comments so far
  1. pendraggon November 3, 2007 3:55 pm

    Thanks! I was looking for a tip like this. Any tips on good techniques for creating these images?

  2. Anonymous November 4, 2007 11:29 am

    good to have you back… been a while since ive seen you post.

  3. Scott November 5, 2007 5:31 pm

    Thanks - And sorry for the absence!