While the default account image may be okay for awhile, pretty soon you’re going to want to per­son­al­ize your Mac a bit — to make it more YOU. Here’s how to change your account picture:

Step 1: In the top left cor­ner of your screen, look for the Apple icon and left click it.

Step 2: You should see a drop down list appear, look for “Sys­tem Pref­er­ences” and left click it:

Step 3: You are now look­ing at the Sys­tem Pref­er­ences for, you guessed it, your sys­tem (or com­puter). There’s a bunch of dif­fer­ent set­tings you can change here, some of which will do more “dam­age” than oth­ers. For now, look for an icon that looks like two heads/shoulders labeled “Accounts.” Left click the Accounts icon:

Step 4: You will now see your account listed on the left hand side (under the label “My Account”) as well as a Guest Account and any other accounts you have cre­ated on your Mac (under the label “Other Accounts”). In the mid­dle of the screen, you should see your cur­rent account pic­ture (your image may be dif­fer­ent from the one shown below). Left click on your cur­rent pic­ture and you should see a drop down gallery of many dif­fer­ent icons included with your Mac. Left click on one you like to change it.

I chose a soc­cer ball. All done.

About This Mac Extra:

For a really per­son­al­ized account pic­ture, why not use a pic­ture of your­self? When you clicked on your cur­rent account pic­ture in Step 4 above one of the other options was “Edit Pic­ture.” Click that and then choose “Take a video snap­shot” to use the built-in iSight cam­era in your Mac to take a pic­ture of your­self. Once you’re happy with your photo, click “Set” to set it as your account picture.

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