New Folder Image Looks Like Document Image

Question

I read somewhere that you could change icons to anything you wanted.  I went ahead and did this and it went perfectly.  I then looked into this further and found that you could change the defult folder image to anything you wanted, so that when you created a new folder it wouldnt be the boring blue.  I followed the instructions and went to the following folder:
/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/
In this folder, I found the icon called GenericFolderIcon.icns.  I replaced that with the same name and restarted the dock using the killall Dock command in terminal, nothing happened and I tried some similar things until I finally removed the actual icon from the Resources folder, brought it to my desktop, found the image I wanted, renamed said image, and put the new image into the Resources folder.  My folders now look like a blank document, as opposed to what I wanted them to look like.  Below I have attached 2 images.  An image of the desired folder and an image of what the folders look like now.  I also tried removing the icon image and restarting to comuter in hopes that the computer would generate a new icon, this did not happen.
     ^Current Folder Image^          ^Desired Folder Image^

Answer 1

You can't convert an image into a text layer.  What you can do is clip an image to a text layer so that just the image layer shows up where there is text.  Create a text layer, then above it put your image layer.  Hold down the alt/opt key and click between the two layers to clip them.