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Set a Gallery Image as a Contact Photo on HTC One M8

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video we are going to show you how to set a photo from the Gallery application as a Contact icon on an HTC One M8.

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To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the Power button located on the top of the phone
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Once the phone has been activated, we will see the Lock screen
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To unlock the phone swipe the screen upwards.

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Once the phone has been unlocked, we will see the Home screen
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At the bottom we will see some icons.
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It is one of these icons that we now need to utilize because we need to open up the Applications folder
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To do that we need this icon located at the bottom of the Home screen in the middle. We can see that there is a grid made up of white dots.

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Press down on this icon, and it will open up our "Apps" folder
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In this demonstration, it is the first icon on the second row
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We can see that there is an icon of a photo of what looks like some yellow sand dunes. Underneath it says the word "Gallery".

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Press down on this icon, and it will open up the "Album" application
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In this video tutorial we want to demonstrate how to set a photo from this application as a Contact icon. By contact icon, we mean Profile photo.
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To do that then, we need to select an "Album"
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We can select any "Album" that we like.

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We'll select an album by pressing down on it
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Now, choose a photo and press down on the photo.
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Now, we can see that the photo is there, but we need to make the icons appear at the bottom and the top of the screen
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To do that just press down on the screen
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Now we can see that icons have appeared
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We are looking for the icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen.
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It will disappear quite quickly
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Just press down on the screen again, and the icon has reappeared
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We can see that there are three small white circles or dots in a vertical line.
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Now, press down on this icon, and it will open up this menu
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We're looking for the option that says, "Set as".
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Press down on the words "Set as", and we get a menu
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We need the first option, "Contact icon" with "People" underneath.
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Press down on this option, and we have our Contact list
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We have two options. We're going to use "Terry" because "Terry" does not have a Contact icon. There is no Profile photo.
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Press down on the option preferred
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Press down on the Contact, and we have the ability to "Crop" the photo. We can see it says the word "Crop" at the top left corner.
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To "Crop" the photo press down on the box and move it around until it's in a location that we're happy with
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We can also make the box bigger by pressing down on one of the green circles in the corner
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We can see each corner has a little turquoise circle
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Press down on it and drag down to make the box bigger.
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Now, we can choose the location of the box
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When we're happy with that, press down on the word "DONE" in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
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Now it says, "CROPPING PHOTO..."
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Then it says, "The picture has been assigned to the contact"
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We're going to go back now by pressing the Back arrow in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen
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Press down on that once
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Press down on it twice
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Press down on it three times, and that will take us back to the "Apps" folder
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Now, we're going to press down on the "People" icon
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We can see that there is an icon of a contact card, and it says the word "People" underneath.
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Press down on that
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We can see here we have "Terry".
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Now we have that Contact icon or Profile photo that we have added from the Gallery application
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This concludes our tutorial on how to set a photo from the Gallery application as a Contact icon on an HTC One M8
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