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Pictures, Avitars, Photos

Guest Libbyk

By Guest Libbyk
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DragonQueen Explorer
DragonQueen
Posted

YEs!! I got it!! Had to play around with it for a while :D

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Silver-naki Rookie
Silver-naki
Posted
YEs!! I got it!! Had to play around with it for a while :D

:D:D:D:D:D

YEAH DRAGON!!!! You got it!! Wonderful photo here... Loved it! Glad you were able to figure it out, & glad you got your Avitar! I was getting so mad trying to do all this, I was about ready to take a "sludge-hammer" to my Computer here! Laugh! :lol:

Welcome aboard again! :rolleyes:

hez Enthusiast
hez
Posted

Please keep in mind I do not know what I am doing! I would love to have a picture of something by my name. I have figured out this is called a avatar. How do I get one? I googled avatar and still could not figure it out. Any help would be appreciated!

Hez

gf4life Enthusiast
gf4life
Posted

Hi,

I had a hard time figuring it out at first too. If you just want to use one of the avatars available on the site, then I can help you. I have had difficulty with uploading one of my own photos for use as an avatar so I stopped trying. (I did finally get it to work today. My old computer wouldn't let me add this "family portrait" that my daughter drew last year. Not bad for a 6 year old!)

Here is what you do:

Click on the link near the top of the page that says "My Controls".

Then click on the link on the left side bar that says "Edit Avatar Settings".

Scroll down the page and select one from the pre-installed avatars. There are three sections you can choose from, so go through them and pick you favorite. Then just click the button under the one that you like and click on "Use Selected Avatar".

It should show up next to your posts after that.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you can't make it work.

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elye Community Regular
elye
Posted

Hey, you may be able to help me...I have been unsuccessfully trying to put my own picture on my profile. I keep being told that I have not been given permission (?!) by the board to enable this. Do you know what's up? My pic is not too big, and I've tried to do this under "edit avatar settings" and "change personal photo"...

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
Posted

You can't use the personal photo setting--I understand it's been disabled. For your avatar, did you try cropping the picture? I had to bring the edges in on mine and play with it several times before it finally took.

Rachel--24 Collaborator
Rachel--24
Posted

Is your pic the right type of file? I had some problems with that at first. I had to change the file type in order for it to take.

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elye Community Regular
elye
Posted

Thanks for your suggestions, I'm just gonna try them...I DID crop my pic quite a bit, but I'll crop it more. As for file type, it's a JPG, which is supposed to be fine, but I can change that, too...(if I can figure out how to do that...computer idiot, here...)..

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
Posted

JPG is fine--that's what mine was. Try bringing the picture in from the sides--as much as you can and still see the subject--that's what finally did it for me.

elye Community Regular
elye
Posted

Hey, Patti,

Thanks a lot! I apparently got the pic on my profile...just made it a little smaller like you said...so hopefully it will be on this post!

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
Posted

elye--Ya did it!! And such a cute picture :) .

cgilsing Enthusiast
cgilsing
Posted

I'm having a problem updating my avatar picture. I tried to update it last Friday from my home computer, and all of our home computers show the new picture with my posts. However, my work computer is still showing the old picture. Do have any ideas how to fix that?

Rachel--24 Collaborator
Rachel--24
Posted

Try hitting F5 and it sould fix the problem.

I learned that trick from celiac3270. :D

cgilsing Enthusiast
cgilsing
Posted

Thanks! It worked!

slpinsd Contributor
slpinsd
Posted

how do i contact a site administrator so that i can post a personal photo? it says not enabled.

Rachel--24 Collaborator
Rachel--24
Posted

You cannot use that option. You can post an avatar but the personal photo function is not enabled.

slpinsd Contributor
slpinsd
Posted

ok, darn! I'm not Derek Zoolander, I just like him a lot :)

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DingoGirl Enthusiast
DingoGirl
Posted

I, too, cannot upload any photo at all - either under the AVATAR setting or the UPLOAD PHOTO setting. Can we fix this? it doesn't seem to matter what I try - cannot put a photo of my doggies on there - - what should I do??? :o

Rachel--24 Collaborator
Rachel--24
Posted

You can only use the change avatar setting. What message are you getting when you try to put your doggie pic up? Is the pixel size too big?

DingoGirl Enthusiast
DingoGirl
Posted
You can only use the change avatar setting. What message are you getting when you try to put your doggie pic up? Is the pixel size too big?

Hi Rachel - here's the message I'm getting:

You are not allowed to upload that type of file as an avatar or personal photo

I don't think it's too big, 681 bytes, but will investigate.... heck, I'm practically Amish when it comes to computers, it's really like an alien in my home and as long as everything's working fine, we get along, but, I don't really know what I"m doing at all! :unsure: It did let me load a photo before, but not now.

Jnkmnky Collaborator
Jnkmnky
Posted

I don't know how to make the pictures I took smaller to fit as my avatar. Anyone know how to do it?

Rachel--24 Collaborator
Rachel--24
Posted

I only know how to do it with my photo editing software. The one I mainly use is Adobe. Do you have any photo software? Maybe theres another way to do it but thats all I know.

Canadian Karen Community Regular
Canadian Karen
Posted

I have Kodak Easyshare, and when I save the photos, I can choose whichever size I want..... Other than that, I have no idea!

Hugs!

Karen

jaten Enthusiast
jaten
Posted

Jnkmnky, you can do it with any photo editing software. I'm most familiar with Adobe, but if you're on a Windows-based pc, you have access to a program called Photo Editor. Open an image in that program, then from the menu choose Image>Resize. Every program will work something like that, just the menus will be different. We need to know what you have to work with.

Jnkmnky Collaborator
Jnkmnky
Posted

I'm trying to do it, but I can't figure it out. Nevermind.

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