Adding an Avatar to your profile....how to...

Cathy Monaghan · Post by **Cathy Monaghan** » Feb 11th, '05, 13:00

For those who want to learn more about Avatars....

That little picture that appears under a person's name in the author column of a message is called an "Avatar". It's just a graphic or digital photo that has been edited with a tool like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Photo Editor. If you want to use a photo of yourself, use one that's a good close-up, crop it so that your face is the main focus, then resize it so that it is no larger than 80 x 80 pixels at 72 dpi and the file size is less than 6K, then save it somewhere on your computer.

Avatars do not initially have to reside on a web server like the images that can be included within posted messages do in order to use one. So once you've edited and saved your picture you're ready to add it to your profile on the new board. Don't want to use a photo of yourself? How about one of your boat.

You must be a registered user of the new board and then you must login. So make sure you login then click on the "Your Settings" link which is located up in the header information (below "Need help starting?") at the top of the page.

After you've clicked on "Your Settings", scroll down to the bottom of the page to the "Avatar control panel" section. Click on the "Browse" button next to the box for "Upload Avatar from your machine:" then navigate to where you saved your file. Double-click on the name of your file to select it.

Click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page. This process uploads your file to the web server.

You can change your Avatar at anytime afterwards by simply modifying "Your Settings" following the same instructions.

Try it.

Cathy
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