avatar question?

[walleyeguy7]

I was wondering how to get my own pic for my avatar. any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

[HaywardBound]

Check out the Photo sharing forum. There is a sticky on the subject of posting picts.

That should get you started. You will need to have your picts hosted somewhere like photobucket, etc.

[Slyster]

I can host images too... I own a gig of webspace and don't use very much.. avatars are tiny!

[metrojoe]

You also need to resize the photo. I use a freeware called avatar sizer.

[walleyeguy7]

sorry guys i am not good with computers at all, how would i go about sending it to a host?

[Guest]

I’ll take a stab at helping you out.

First off, you need to have the desired picture saved on your computer. It can be on your desktop, in your "My Pictures" folder, "My Documents" folder or any other folder; it just needs to be saved in your computer.

Then you need to go to an image hosting site. Do a search for Image Shack and that will get you to the one I have had the best luck with.

When you get to the website, click on browse. This will open a new window that will allow you to look (browse) through your folders on your computer. You want to navigate to the location you have your image saved. Once you get to your image click on it one time and then click the open button. This will prepare the website to upload the image and give it a URL.

Before clicking "host it" make sure that the "resize image” box is checked and the size is 100 x 75. Also make sure a check is in the box that says "remove size/resolution bar from thumbnail.” Now you can hit the "Host it" button.

After the image is done uploading, you will be brought to a new page. You want to highlight the link in the "Direct link to image" box, right click on it and select copy.

Now open up Fishingminnesota.com and click on "my home" then click on "Edit" which is to the right of the words "Personal information, email, password, etc." Then scroll down almost to the bottom of the page. Right click in the "URL to your avatar" box, and select paste. This will put that new link into that box. Make sure to dot the circle in front of the box.

Lastly, click on the submit button. Your avatar should now pop up on all your past posts as well as new posts.

And there ya have it.

Feel free to ask if you still have troubles. Eventually you will get it. It took me a couple tries at first too.

[Dan Thiem]

You nailed those instructions well Loebs! Thanks for helping out.

[delmuts]

and thank you!

[walleyeguy7]

thank you,you da man loebs i would have never figured that out.thanks again to everyone.

[Guest]

I'm glad I could help you out.

[metrojoe]

Just remember the picture in your avatar cannot exceed 109x150 pixels. So resize it before you upload to the image hosting site. Also regular photos are much easier to view in the forums if you make those a bit smaller too.