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<p>A contact icon, called an "avatar" on some services, is an image which represents a person; while some people use their actual picture, others use something else entirely. You can specify your own, and it will be sent to your contacts. Your contacts' icons are sent to you, though you can choose to override their image with one of your choice.</p>
<p>If you specify contacts' instant messaging information within their Address Book Cards in the Apple Address Book, the icon you set for that will be used automatically if they do not choose one of their own to send you and you don't override it within Adium.</p>
<p>If you have a <i>Me</i> card, the icon set for it will be sent by default to your contacts, unless you override it within Adium.</p>
<p>For more details, see <a href="AdvancedFeatures-AddressBookIntegration.html">Address Book Integration</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Changing the global icon won't change any accounts to which you've assigned their own icon. If you'd like those accounts to use the global icon instead, you'll need to edit each one as described above and set it back to “Use global icon”.</p>
<p>Drag-and-drop is the only way to set animated contact icons ("animated GIFs") and keep the animation.</p>
<p>You cannot use the Image Picker to set animated contact icons. The animation will be removed.</p>
<p>When using AIM and Jabber, Adium supports animated contact icons in the form of .gif files. To set an animated contact icon, drag the .gif file from the Finder into the image well in the "Personal" tab of your account's settings. Note that you must drag the file into the image well; you will not be able to use the animation of the icon if you use the Image Picker or press the "Choose Icon" button to select it.</p>
<p>AIM contact icons must be between 48x48 and 50x50 pixels, Jabber icons have a size limit of 96x96. When an image is resized, its animation is lost, so if Adium has to resize your image, you will lose its animation. AIM animated contact icons therefore can not be more than 50x50 pixels, Jabber animated icons no more than 96x96.</p>
<li>Get Info on the contact by selecting the contact then choosing <strong>Get Info</strong> from the <strong>Contact</strong> menu.</li>
<li>Preserving transparency of an icon follows the same rules as setting animated contact icons.</li>
<li>Get Info on the contact by selecting the contact then choosing <strong>Get Info</strong> from the <strong>Contact</strong> menu.</li>
<p>Recent icons set via the icon picker (both for contacts and for yourself) are cached at ~/Library/Images/iChat Recent Pictures, and such recent icons are shared with iChat.</p>
<p>Icons should be retrieved automatically from your contacts when you sign on and when contacts change icons. In AIM, exchanging two messages with a contact may be necessary for the icon to be retrieved, depending upon what messaging client the contact is using. On some services getting info on a contact via Get Info may trigger an icon retrieval.</p>