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Showing your good side: Adding a profile photo

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When you send an email to another Gmail user, participate in a chat or a meeting, collaborate on a document or spreadsheet, or do any number of other G Suite activities, your presence in those activities is indicated by your G Suite profile photo. For a new G Suite account, that photo is a generic silhouette of a perfectly round head floating above the top third or so of what appears to be a perfectly round torso. (Refer to Figure 2-1.) It’s perfectly bland, in other words. Believe me, you do not want “circle person” to represent you to your colleagues, friends, and family.

Fortunately, the road to a flattering profile photo consists of just the following steps:

1 On the Gmail main menu, click the default profile picture (pointed out earlier, in Figure 2-1).The Select Profile Photo window appears.

2 Make sure the Upload Photos tab is selected.If you've previously uploaded photos to use as your profile, they show up on the Your Photos tab, so feel free to click that tab if you want to reuse a previous photo.If you want to take a fresh photo using your PC's camera, click the Web Camera tab. When you display the Web Camera tab, chances are you'll see an error message that says, “Adobe Flash Player is blocked.” Bummer. If you really want to use the camera, open your web browser's settings and find the option that enables Flash. (In Chrome, click Settings, See all settings, click Privacy and Security, click Site Settings, click Flash, and then click the Block Sites from Running Flash switch.) Follow Steps 1 and 2 and, when your browser asks whether it can run Flash, click Allow.

3 Select the photo you want to use for your profile.Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to locate the photo in File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac), click and drag the photo, and then drop it on the “Drag a profile photo here” message.Otherwise, click Select a Photo from Your Computer, choose the image you want to use, and then click Open.

4 Click Set as Profile Photo.Gmail uploads the image and uses it as your profile pic across all the G Suite apps. Looking good!

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