How to Set a Buddy icon for iChat

How to Set a Buddy icon for iChat

You can set your own pictures or your loved photos as your iChat buddy icon.

iChat is a wonderful instant messenger application for Macintosh computers. Just as Adium for Mac, iChat allows people to set a buddy icon on iChat.

Many people are new to iChat for Mac, and have no idea how to set a buddy icon on iChat. This article will show you.

Introductions on iChat buddy icon setting

Step 1. Find pictures to be set as buddy icon.

Find a picture of your choosing. It can be from the Internet, from the iChat icon folder (Not available on Mac OS X 10.5), or it can be your favorite picture of yourself.

Step 2. Edit pictures.

Once you have your picture ready, you can click the picture that you would like and drag it into the small box in the upper right-hand corner of the iChat Buddy List.

Open a screen and you can choose to zoom in and out on the picture to get it to fit just right. There you are, you now have a new buddy icon that's easy to edit and change at any time.

• On the menu bar in the top left corner, click iChat.
• On the list, choose, "Change My Picture".
• It will open a window. At the bottom of this window, click "Choose".

Notes: If you can't open screen, you can click on the small picture and go to the bottom of the drop-down box to, "Edit Picture..."

Step 3. Set a buddy icon on iChat.

Know that if you have a picture saved on your computer, you can find the file and then click open.

Zoom in and out on the picture to get it to fit just right. There you are, you now have a new buddy icon that's easy to edit and change at any time.