These iChat 4 pages are coloured Gray and have the iChat 4 icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs little from the Version 3 version.

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Message and FaceTime. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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04 Buddy Pic Change

Nov 2008

4 Changing the Buddy Pic

This Picture is where to Start to Change your Buddy Pic from the Buddy Lst.
Click on your Own Buddy Pic and this "Recent Pictures" slide pops out.

You can then choose between any that are showing there already. (An AIM name will default to the Running Man if there are none set - Apple names will display the Blue Globe and Jabber a Lighlight Bulb in any Jabber List)

Next choose the Edit Picture button.

This will take you to this screen.

From here there are several options. The apparent drop down at the top will display the Recent Picture Panel again and it also used to link to the iChat Icons.

The main display shows the current picture.

The Slider will resize the picture in relation to the Box. What shows in the Box is what the picture will be if you select the Set button.

The Camera Icon button will give you a count down to taking a Snapshot. Basically the Computer taking a Selfie of you.

 

A New sqaure shutter like icon will bring up the Effects Pallet for the Video stream and you can apply an Effect to the still picture as this picture to the right demonstrates. Again the slider can be used to resize this picture. It will show the Picture it is working on behind the Effect (and greyed out as a regular choice being resized would.

 

 

 

The Choose button take you to a navigation choice to pick any picture on your hard drive. Once a picture is chosen you can use the main window to resize it.

You can also click on the picture to drag it about to center the quare on any part of a larger picture.

Once you are happy with what is in the box you can use the Set Button. The example on the right is a Snapshot first then I have resized it down to my face. It can be done with any picture.

What iChat does then is create it's own version of the picture based on what is in the box and does not touch the original.

These tend to be converted in to .tiffs.

You can also change the picture by dragging any picture straight to the Buddy Pic spot in the Buddy List.

 

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Created October, 2008 Major Update/Edit October 2024.

 ©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

Information Block

This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

The sections below will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

This page talks you through using the Buddy Pic on show to access the option to Change the icons, Add and Effect to an existing Picture, Add a Snapshot or Grab a Picture from anywhere on your computer and resize it into an icon

Any of these options that don't use an existing icon, the Recents drop giving acess to some specific iChat ones, then they are captured and coonverted into .tifs by iChat without changing the original.

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September/October 2024 moving towards being fully HTML 5 compliant meaning that the Browsers listed below are likely to no longer work.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

The original pages worked with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) should/may only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.

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