Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Tutorials

Showing Your Personality With Display Images

What Is a Display Image? Selecting Your Display Image Sharing Your Display Image Working With Your Avatar

What Is a Display Image?

You’re a flower in spring, a studious coed, a traveling vagabond, a display image. Wait. A display image? Well, that’s actually what we call the picture you use to portray yourself to your contacts, so you can be a spring flower, a coed, or pretty much whatever you like.

Your display image—an avatar or image—appears at the top of the Messenger window to the left of your name, and in the Conversation window of the contacts you instant message. In your Conversation windows, you’ll see the display images of your contacts. If an image hasn’t been selected, you’ll see a silhouette placeholder.

Your display image in your Messenger windowYour friend’s display image in a Conversation window

Tip: You can’t share display images with Windows Live™ Messenger contacts.

 

What’s Next

The next task shows you how to select the image you want your friends to see.

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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.
  • Windows Live™ Messenger: Microsoft® Windows’ free instant messaging application.