how to add an avatar pix please

[lucydad]

All,

Wanted to do it for years...tried and failed several times.  How do I add an avatar picture please?  Something like a flying poodle?

Much thanks...gonna have some rainy down time. 

[tiger_one]

They are usually limited by pixel size, different forums have their own limits.  I take a normal picture and crop the part I like, then resize by pixels to meet the requirements while keeping the aspect ratio correct.

[lucydad]

Tiger,

Played with change...no luck at all.  How, exactly do you get an existing picture added for avatar?  Photobucket? 

[gsf12man]

This worked for me: I have a Photobucket account. For copying an image to a post from Photobucket you click on the "img" address, the 4th/bottom choice on the right side of the window with your proposed avatar displayed in it. But don�t do that. That did not work for the avatar, so I just tried them until one worked: second one down, "direct." Copied that and pasted it into the appropriate field in my profile. ('Specify avatar by URL'.)

I made my avatar in Photoshop Elements, sizing it to 383 pixels/side, which someone (Rocker?) said is the max size; saved that as a JPEG for uploading to Photobucket.

When I finally got the right address in the 'specify avatar' field I hit return and it was done. I just fumbled through all that again tonight, as my avatar mysteriously vanished after making an unrelated change in my profile--operator error, I have no doubt.

For what it's worth all this was done using a MacBook Pro.

[lucydad]

Tom,

Trial and error...mostly the latter.  Now get a click for photos thingy.  Any other ideas please?

thanks

[lucydad]

fail again...ugh  crappy forum controls

[lucydad]

Finally got it to take a free avatar...now I need to figure out how to take a preferred picture and make it work....geez.

[gsf12man]

Trial and error...mostly the latter.  Now get a click for photos thingy.  Any other ideas please?

LD, that's what happened to me when I made an unrelated change to my profile. Got the Click for Photos thing too. I ended up uploading yet another (identical) version of my homemade avatar to Photobucket, linked it to my profile as I described, and when I hit return, my correct avatar was back. Damned if I know why it worked. At least you have a picture in place, you must be getting warm.