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[spooky]

how do i make an avatar ? ie how do i make a photo suitable to be uploaded as an avatar ?

[manxie]

I think if you click on "profile", then "modify" click "forum profile" then "avatar" .... then upload something .....   
Any photo will need to be the correct size, but all I do is play resizing it and when it`s small enough, the system will accept it.

I think??

[spooky]

i think resizing is what i can`t do, i should be able to manage the profile bit,  so my new question is how do you resize a photo ?

[manxie]

I`m rubbish at it. First of all I copy the picture so anything I do to it that`s wrong, I`ve always still got the original.  Usually at the top of a picture there is "open" button....i click on it and "paint" drops down. Click on it and you can alter the picture including its size ...... I usually drop my pictures down by 50% but you can play with that

sometimes there is simply a "resize" option but I haven`t got that 

[spooky]

i cheated and found one...

[timbo]

My pics are in folders on the desktop. Open folder, right click on image you want to resize, hit Edit . Photo will be around 1 to 1.7MB. Hit Resize, put a percentage figure in the top Horizontal box, I usually find 30, gets it down to below 250KB, which you need to post as an attachment on here. Hit OK, then File, then Save. That should be it. I only know this, because Alison has beaten it into me! I can do fk all else on here 

[johnr]

i cant find any of that. when i click on my profile i just get, show posts and show stats. nothing else. how do i add one?

[SteveC#222]

If you click on profile you should get a drop down list with

Summary
Account settings
Forum Profile

Click Forum profile and you should get to the avatar settings.

[spooky]

for me loading the avatar wasn`t the problem, getting it small enough was the hard part,

[johnr]

nope. i click on profile and i just get 'summary' nothing else. clicking on sumary just shows my name, post count and registration date.

[spooky]

nope. i click on profile and i just get 'summary' nothing else. clicking on sumary just shows my name, post count and registration date.

handy if you have forgotten your name though ....

[johnr]

yeah, in the time between logging in and wanting to check what my name is cos ive forgotten it after i logged in with it.....

[spooky]

have you managed to make an avatar the right size then ?

[johnr]

oh, ive got one, i just cant put it on my profile because its different to everyone elses.