Showing Your Personality With Display Images
| Selecting and Sharing Your Display Image | Working With Your Avatar | Controlling Your Display Image During Messaging |
Controlling Your Display Image During Messaging
Your display image, if you selected one, appears on the right side of the input area of your conversation windows. You can control its size (in your conversation windows only) and decide to share it or not.
Here’s How
In your conversation window, right-click your display image to open a menu (if you aren’t sharing your display image, you can’t access this menu).
From the menu, select the desired option.
Don’t Share a Display Image removes both your display image and your contact’s display image from your conversation window and removes your display image only from your contacts’ Messenger windows.
Share My Picture shows your picture.
Share My Yahoo! Avatar shows your avatar.
Large Image increases the size of your display image in your conversation window.
Small Image decreases the size of your display image in your conversation window.
What’s Next
If you don’t want to show any display images in your conversation window, click the display image button to the right of the formatting tools. Click it again to show images.
Words to Know
- Avatar: a character that you can use when interacting with friends online. By changing hairstyles, clothes, accessories, and backgrounds, you can create your own unique persona.
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.
- Display image: a picture or avatar that represents you in some way and that you share with your contacts during IM conversations.