iChat Icon   Taking a picture of your video chat

You can create a picture clipping of a video chat and add it to a document, send it to a buddy, or save it as an image file using the Preview application in Mac OS X.

1.Command-click in the video chat window and drag the image out of the chat window. A picture file in JPEG format is created.
2.Drag the file to a buddy icon in your Buddy List to send the file as a JPEG file to your buddy, or drag the file to a location on your hard disk to use in other applications.
3.Double-click the file to view it in the Finder.

You can also press Command-C to copy a picture of your video chat, and then press Command-V to paste it into another application.

To create a file from your copied image in Preview, open Preview (located in the Applications folder) and choose File > "New from Pasteboard." Then save the image in your choice of file formats by choosing File > Export.