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by **Chas** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 7:33 pm

deepfrog wrote:
Hi everyone I'm trying out this avatar to see if it works.

Hi - unless I have missed something, (very possible :lol:

) you have inserted the image in the text. Surely an avatar should appear under your name on the right? Is there an option for where the avatar is displayed?

by **jadegil6** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:50 am

It is OK if people want to put an avatar in the text portion of a message instead of with their name. The avatars can go either place. Some folks don't want to have just one, and they may wish to use a different avatar for different topics. It isn't that important where it is put as long as people can have a little fun with it. To each his own. Or they can have one with their name, and put a different one with the text. It all works!

by **chaychay644** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:29 am

jadegil6 wrote:It is OK if people want to put an avatar in the text portion of a message instead of with their name. The avatars can go either place. Some folks don't want to have just one, and they may wish to use a different avatar for different topics. It isn't that important where it is put as long as people can have a little fun with it. To each his own. Or they can have one with their name, and put a different one with the text. It all works!

Good suggestion sir Michael..I am sure, everyone is trying to have their own avatar..

by **Mr.Magoo** » Thu May 06, 2010 1:13 pm

Maybe some of you guys and gals who have avatars, and espeically those who change them often, can tell us novices how to go about getting an avatar, and posting it next to our usernames, or on our posts. Can we access photos that we already have in our pc documents? Thanks in advance for any knowledge that you may share with those of us who have only recently mastered the on/off button on our computers.

by **Chas** » Thu May 06, 2010 11:58 pm

Hi Mr Magoo

Yes you can use photos you have on your machine. The key is to get them down to 90 x 90 pixels and less than 6kb in size. You can use websites such as http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/ (Just remember in Step 2 to change the default value of 200 to 90.) to reduce the size to 90 x 90 pixels. Don't forget to save the shrunken image back to your PC.

Unfortunately I have on occasion come unstuck with the resulting image still greater than 6kb. If you right click on the image and look at its properties you can find out how big it is. The trick is to reduce the quality of the original picture before you shrink it. I discovered, thanks to Red, if you email the image to yourself the email software will reduce the quality to save bandwidth. In addition I am getting to grips with Photoshop and you can reduce the quality and therefore size in that package.

Once you have a small enough image you load it via the User Control Panel, Profile, edit avatar. I suggest use the top of the three options and actually load the image from your PC.

I am happy to try and reduce an image in size if any member of the forum would like help creating an avatar. Just send me a PM and I will send them my email address so they can send me the image to be reduced in size. I am wary about handing out my email address so would prefer any request to come from somebody who has posted a few times.

by **Mr.Magoo** » Fri May 07, 2010 7:23 am

Thank you for the useful information, Chas. I will try to put it to use, and if I run into any problems that I can't solve on my own, then I might take you up on your offer to help.

by **crisipicada** » Wed May 12, 2010 4:03 am

Mr.Magoo wrote:Thank you for the useful information, Chas. I will try to put it to use, and if I run into any problems that I can't solve on my own, then I might take you up on your offer to help.

Wow, you are an army. Glad to see your photo, Mr. Magoo. I hope that you keep on posting

by **Mr.Magoo** » Wed May 12, 2010 10:51 pm

Wow, you are an army. Glad to see your photo, Mr. Magoo. I hope that you keep on posting

An army of one! Do you like a man in uniform? "tenhut!!" (that is "attention" for all who don't understand military jargon, coz soldiers need to talk like they have their mouths full when they bark commands."

The Marines say, "A good man is hard to find." But many girls change those words around to make a sentence with a different meaning. Give it a try crispicada! It could be a lot of fun!

by **crisipicada** » Thu May 13, 2010 3:22 am

Mr.Magoo wrote:Wow, you are an army. Glad to see your photo, Mr. Magoo. I hope that you keep on posting

An army of one! Do you like a man in uniform? "tenhut!!" (that is "attention" for all who don't understand military jargon, coz soldiers need to talk like they have their mouths full when they bark commands."

The Marines say, "A good man is hard to find." But many girls change those words around to make a sentence with a different meaning. Give it a try crispicada! It could be a lot of fun!