Change imessage picture

Hi,

Two ways.

With Buddy List.

In Messages > Preferences > Accounts enable th Bonjour one if you have no other accounts other than iMessages.

In the Window Menu display the "Buddies" option.

Double click the current pic to reveal the change panel.

It should open on Recents, showing you the current choice and any other pic that has been used in System Preferences > User and Groups > you account > Picture, and the Contacts App > My Card > your pic. (you can set all three to be different but in Mavericks they have Common Recents Folder.)

The Panel should also show your Defaults (all the Pics that can be chosen for the Mac User Account Login pic and the "iChat Icons")

The iCloud (previously PhotoStream).

Faces (although the link to iPhoto does not work)

Camera

Linked (those used in the Login Pic and Contacts > My Card pic.)

Method 2.

Messages Menu > Change my Picture

This does not have the Faces, Linked or the iCloud one but does have "Other" instead which can navigate to any where on the Hard Drive but starts at "Pictures".

Example Pic with the Menu, it's Panel and the Buddy List drop down

Method 2 does not seem to work so well when you only have an iMessage Account Logged in.

This may be because the process was the Menu Method from iChat and not all menu items work with all windows that are open or all parts of the App.

7:19 pm Wednesday; November 13, 2013

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

for the Points.

8:30 pm Wednesday; November 13, 2013

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

THANK YOU!!!

You are welcome.

7:28 pm Sunday; March 9, 2014

Worked thanks. also fyi there is a "change my picture" under messages drop down menu.

Hi,

You "replied" the Original Poster who asked the Question.

My reply which details "Method 2" in the Post that in now included with hers in the green bordered manner to denote it was the answer the Original Poster had marked as Correct (Green Tick).

Seems you might need to check your Pro Optics out 😁 😀 (that's Laugh, Grin, Mischief)

7:44 pm Tuesday; July 22, 2014

I liked the question and not the answer(the answer was long and boring). I have my own answer to that, as you can see it in my replay.

you might Wanna find something better to do other then waiting for people to like your comments.

Oh well,

I tried.

Your posting name suggested glasses.

The Original post was close on 8 month ago and was answered and marked as Correct (i.e. the answer works).

There would be nothing gained in "Answering" the question again - the Original Poster cannot award you a Correct.

I checked how long you had been on the Apple Support Communities and found you joined in 2012.

From that I presumed you had worked out how the boards worked and had just missed the date of the post.

Whilst I do realise that humour does not always travel I did add the text to indicate which Smilies I had used.

I sorry you failed to see the humour, especially as I thought I had taken enough care.

I don't wait. I just read all the posts coded with Messages/iMessages in Mavericks and Mountain Lion and the whole of the iChat Community ones.

Bye.

9:00 pm Tuesday; July 22, 2014

oohhhh thank u thank u thank u!!!! that worked perfect!!!!

oohhhh thank u thank u thank u Ralph Jones!!!! that worked perfect!!!!

You're welcome.

(And it's Johns by the way 😉 )

8:41 pm Friday; September 19, 2014

Kudos to you Ralph! I've been wondering where the heck that option was for months, or at least every time I saw my horrible pic tat was chosen like in 2008 when I added some other accounts, but never had the time to look where to change it.

You're welcome.

8:11 pm Tuesday; January 27, 2015