Showing Your Personality With Display Images
| Selecting Your Display Image | Working With Your Avatar | Sharing Your Display Image | Changing the Display Image Size |
Changing the Display Image Size
Your display image, if you selected one, appears on the right side of the input area of your IM window. You can display a large or small version of this image.
Note: Changing the size of your display image does not affect the size of the image that your contacts see.
Here’s How
In your IM window, on the pull-down menu under your image, select Large Image or Small Image.
The display image updates to reflect the selected size.
Tip: When you select the size of the display image or when you select Close to hide your display image, it affects your display only. The contact with whom you’re having an IM conversation still sees your selected display image in the size she selects for her own display.
What’s Next
Display images can reflect your personality on any given day. Return to them often to select a new image, and customize your avatar so that others can see how you feel each day.
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 or instant message.
- Display image: a picture or Avatar that represents you in some way and that you share with your contacts during IM conversations.
- IM: the acronym for instant message.