How to change my profile picture on YouTube

Do you want to change the YouTube picture ? This social network of music and videos is one of the most important that exists and allows you to create lists, follow your favorite artists and comment on videos that have been posted, but in order to do all this, you have to have an account created. If you already have it and what you want is to know how to change the profile picture on YouTube, keep reading this article where we will reveal it to you with simple steps.

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The first thing you have to know before changing the profile picture of YouTube is that now this social network is linked to Google, that is, it will ask you to log in to Google Mail, that is to say in Gmail, in order to access your Youtube account So the first step to change the photo is to log in to your Gmail, for this, you will have to go to www.youtube.com and in the upper right part of the screen you will see that the option "Log in" appears, mark there and immediately your Gmail account will appear, enter your data and you will enter your Youtube account.

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Once you are inside your session, you will see that in the upper right part of the screen your YouTube profile picture now appears; if you want to change it you will have to click on it and select the " Youtube Configuration " option that appears with a tool wheel symbol. Keep in mind that, since this network is linked to Google, the photo that appears is the one you have on your Google+ profile, so if you change this image you will also be changing the Google+ image .

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In the center of the screen will now appear different options that you can configure but to change the profile picture you just have to click on your name, as we showed in the attached image. Youtube gives you the option to edit your profile also directly from Google+ but if you do not want to leave the page simply mark above your username.

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Now your Youtube channel will appear , so to change the photo you will only have to put the cursor on the one you currently have and you will see how a button appears with a pencil to edit it. Click on this symbol.

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Now, the last step to change the Youtube photo is to select the new image you want to show on this social network and Google+, remember that both are connected. You can choose an image that you have saved on your computer or put the link of one that is on the network. Then you just have to click on "OK" and your YouTube image and Google+ will have been updated, it's that easy!

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If you love the Youtube social network, we give you some tricks so you can make the most of it. In this article you will know how to download YouTube songs and enjoy them whenever you want and in this other we tell you how to skip the publicity of Youtube videos.