Stacks are a great way to keep your folders organized and easily accessible. What isn't so great is how they are displayed. If you right-click on any stack you can change how it is displayed, through folder or stack. This isn't good enough when you have a few that look the same. So here I am to help you initiate a third alternative.
I thought it would be fun to show an example along with the instructions, especially since I recently photoshoped an image and have been waiting for a purpose to use it.
1. Download a free application called Img2Icns. This application can be used for much more than what we are using it for today but I don't want this entry to go on for too long so we'll stick with just this one example of how we can use it.
2. Drag the image you want to use as your icon into the application. Once this is done you should see an image like the one below. Notice How I have a file called "Mac Files" right above the application you are using and how it is just a boring Folder icon. 
3. Now that your picture is in place drag the folder you want to change the icon for into the application. In my example you can see that the folder icon on Mac Files is now the Mac Pirate picture I created a few days ago. 
4. This step is to help change the stacks on the doc so you know what is what. As you can see I have 3 stacks on my dock. The first is applications, the second is documents (where I just placed my mac files folder) and the third is downloads. 
Of course you can get a lot more creative than this and make some really cool looking folder icons. But for example purposes I hope this did a good enough job of showing you how to change icons on folders and in stacks.
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