Setting your Chat Picture in Gmail

Setting your Chat Picture:

Display what you want the world to see. Choose any photo as your Google pic, this will show up whenever other users rolls over your name in their inbox, Contacts, or Quick Contacts list. Here is a step by step:

• Click Mail Settings on any Gmail page. From the My picture section under the General Tab, now click Select a picture. This will bring up the Upload a Picture window.

• Click Browse and select the file you would like. Supported files are a JPG, GIF, or PNG file.
• Click Open in the File Upload dialog.
• With your mouse you can click and drag any corner of the selection box to shrink or enlarge your picture.
• Click Apply Changes. Not to worry, changes you’ve made to your original photo won’t be affected. These changes will only appear in Gmail.
• So now you can select whether you’d like all Gmail users to see your picture, or only those who you’ve allowed to chat with you.

• Visible to everyone means anyone who you email, or who emails you, can see your picture
• Visible only to people I can chat with includes users who have been given permission to see when you’re online and to chat with you. You can see a full list of these users from the All Contacts tab of your Contacts page. They’ll be listed with a colored ball next to their name.