How do I change Finder folder color in El Capitan

The way I think of is to find is to get an image of a folder of another color, then apply OS X Mavericks: Change the icon of a file or folder

I know the article is about Mavericks, but it still works, I just did it.

Folders – Color folders

Folders – Color folders Mavericks

Folders Factory – Color folders

it can be done in preview as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coiE1W8fGOo

I had found a way for changing the system icons in Yosemite, which was not an easy task. The neon blue annoyed me enough to spend an hour "fixing" Yosemite's color choices. With El Capitan, it appears Apple locked out the back-door to do that.

Apple is, of course, a much better judge of what I should like than I am.

Stampendous:

I've got some reading material for you in the links below. Hopefully these will help you solve your problem. I was able to re-arrange the furniture and put my living room exactly back they way I had it before.

- Open the door

- Walk Inside

- Throw out the trash

- But remember to re-lock the door behind you

You cannot change system folder icons in El Capitan (unless you choose to disable the newly added malware protection) which is explained here:

About System Integrity Protection on your Mac - Apple Support

You can still change user folder icons. I don't care for the blue color; however, since I never use Launchpad and prefer to open all Finder windows in Column View, I do not notice the icons all that much and the icons appearing in my dock are quite colorful (partial screenshot):

You can get around the Application folder limitation by putting any (empty?) folder or app with a color folder in the first place which will then show up in the dock. In my case, I changed an Adobe folder to the red one above.

I have changed the icon for an xls folder and put it on the desktop. Each time I open it ,then close it , the new icon has gone. I have to repeat the process of putting the icon on the clipboard,show info on the folder, and then paste . WHY ?does it fall off ?

I cannot replicate your problem on my machine, so it is something unique to your setup rather than a system issue.

the preview process works for me (see six posts into this thread) it's using an Apple solution and there are no hacks to make it happen. I can drop those folders into NTFS NAS volumes and they work on other systems as well.

Here's how to fix the folders and other stuff:

• You can fix the folders and just about anything else with XRevert, That's a unique name so it is easy to find it in Google. XRevert can't fix the unearthly blue in the rest of the UI, though.
• The Dock in Yosemite and el Captain has regressed all the way back to 10.4 Tiger. You can bring the Dock back into the modern world with DockMod by SpyreSoft. It doesn't just repair the Dock's appearance, it lets you customize it too.
• You can change any questionable icons in a non-Apple application. Right-click on the old version, show package contents, copy the icons in the Contents/Resources folder, and paste them into the same location in the new application. If you change the icons in applications that require permission to access the internet, you'll need to give them permission every time they launch, but that's not a bad price for esthetics.

I recommend storing the icons on an external drive to repair future downgrades of the UI.

The Hanna Barbera themed versions of OS X, Yosemite and El Captain, need esthetic repair, because they are too flat, they have colors not found in nature, and many of the icons are turning into unintuitive abstract symbols. They all make OS X less usable because it's harder to tell what's what. The UI looks like it was drawn on someone's kitchen table with a ruler and compass by a person with a color vision impairment. Fortunately, Apple hasn't locked us out of repairing it.

I think it is great that someone has developed a program to re-beautify the desktop. Thanks for sharing Kenneth.

It makes me a little nervous that the program requires you to disable the system protection. Is there anyone on this forum that has tested the software to see if it is not a trojan horse?

You only need to disable the system protection to install the changes. Disable the system protection, run the program, then re-enable the system protection.

If you do want to download this, just be sure to only do it from the developer's website; do avoid these download sites as most have now begun to add unwanted ad/malware to their downloads. FWIW, the developer is a regular contributor here.