How: change the color of buddy icons in Yahoo Messenger

Use Yahoo Messenger chat with family, make new friends, or simply mail enter you keep open to alert you, your personality can express the buddy icons and even program.

Buddy icons are small graphical images in the window and the window with your friends you to represent. If you get bored your current icons grow, spice up your change your colors. A variety of software buddy help change icon colors. The program Microsoft Paint based supplied with your computer can fill a few spots add color and robust Adobe Photoshop provides a variety of ways, shadow, and revive your icons. Difficulty: average

Instructions

You need: Adobe PhotoshopMicrosoft PaintDigital pictures of things

Using Photoshop

1

Open Photoshop and click "File", then click "Open".

Navigate to the folder on your computer your Yahoo Messenger save buddy icons. It may be under "My documents" and then "my images". Double-click the icon to open it in your workspace.

2

Click on "View" and click on "on the screen person."

But make your picture, there is only room to work.

3

The "fill" tool that paint a deposit resembles to the palette "Tools" on the left side of the screen.

Notice the new toolbar at the top of the screen. "Filling out" drop down menu and choose "Original." Double-click square top left color in "Color picker" what aussiehtüberlappen as two-seater. Click a color, and then click the "OK" button.

4

Position the mouse on an image to use, change the field color, and notice that your cursor paint box is similar.

In the area of the image then it changes color. Repeat to areas with the same color or choose a new color "Color picker".

5

(Optional)Click the "Image" menu at the top of the screen, then choose "Customize" and choose hue/saturation"

Drag the slider to the left or right "hue" bar and note how the buddy icon any color. Move the bar to remove "Saturation" to the left or right for a bright neon image color and going black and white. Click "OK", if you done.

6

Click "File" to save the image, and then select "save under" and type a new name;No save above the original in case you want to access it.

Save your file buddy icon, and then select it for your chat window.

Using paint

1

Open paint, click "File" and click "Open".

Navigate to the folder on your computer your Yahoo Messenger save buddy icons. Double-click the icon to open it in your workspace.

2

The "fill" tool that paint a deposit resembles to the palette "Tools" on the left side of the screen.

Click a color "color zone" at the bottom of the screen.

3

Position the mouse on an image to use, change the field color, and notice that your cursor paint box is similar.

In the area of the image then it changes color. Repeat to areas with thesame color, or select a new color "Color picker".

4

Click the "brush" tool palette "Tools" and then click a color "Color range."

Your icon, a new color type drawing of lines on your buddy picture or painting in the sections of the background.

5

Click "File" to save the image, and then select "save under" and type a new name;No save above the original in case you want to access it.

Save your file buddy icon, and then select it for your chat window.