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jessboo
The First USA Noel


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Really stupid and probably easily answerable question alert-

Is there any way of changing my avatar to a pic stored on my pc? Cheers.

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Lil' Molly
Deck the Malls


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jessboo, I upload mine to a free hosting site (Photobucket) and then put the url that they provide in when I change my preferences.

ET fix awkward syntax.

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NeeCD
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Quick answer is no, you can't. I do the same as Lil' Molly and use Photobucket, but I've seen other free sites mentioned before, also.

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Hyla Cinerea
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Wow... I thought we had to choose from the list of pictures. I'm testing out my new avatar, a picture of my pet frog, Dimitri. He is a specimine of Hyla Cinerea by the way [Wink]

ETA: Wow... that picture makes him look fat.

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Bug Muldoon
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ETA: Wow... that picture makes him look fat.
The board's automatic avatar resizing does that. Here:

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jessboo
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I just noticed that there's another technical board for snopes related stuff- sorry snopes!!

Thanks Molly, I'll do that tonight.

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diehard
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Can someone please direct me as to which codes to use in Photoshop (I know I am dense)but it seems that everyone I use all I get is a wierd symbol in my avitar space. I would appreciate any help that someone is willing to give, I have some cute pictures that I would like to use if they look right. Thank you in advance.

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Em
Happy Holly Days


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Use the one in the box marked Url:

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If the picture you're using isn't square it will look distorted once it is re-sized to fit the avatar space, so you're better off cropping your picture before you start.

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diehard
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Thanks Em

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invisigoth
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ok, im new here (just joined today) and i want to change my avatar. i have the image on my photobucket, but i dont know how to get it here. im sure i will slap myself for my stuipdity later but i dont see a space to put my own url in.
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Squoval
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Go to your Photobucket album or sub album where the picture is, right click and copy the link in the "Url" field for your desired picture.

  • Click on the link titled "my profile" at the top of the page.
  • Click the link titled "Edit Profile".
  • Scroll down to the area with your avatar.
  • Click on the link titled "Select a different avatar image".
  • Go the field titled "Use Custom URL:", and paste your link into the field.
  • Click on the "Set URL" button.
  • Click on the "Select this avatar" button.
  • Click on the "Update profile" button.


There.

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Don Enrico
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Let's see if it worked (tesing my new avatar).

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