How do I create an Avitar?

Go to the 'Services->Photo Server' drop-down (upper left of your screen, under all the ads). Login, then click on the Avatar/SigPic link.

Select an appropriate (or not) image and upload it.

OK here's another dumb question. How do I up load it? What's the difference between an up load and a down load?

Quoted: Go to the 'Services->Photo Server' drop-down (upper left of your screen, under all the ads). Login, then click on the Avatar/SigPic link. Select an appropriate (or not) image and upload it.

And good luck getting it below 12k...  I'm about to throw my eFFn laptop against the wall.

I have mine trimmed to 78x60 and the lowest settings you can use in PhotoShop.  It says it's 11.7k but the photo server is saying it's still to big. Not sure what else to do besides cuss at the computer!

it will stretch/resize them a bit, but you can make your image a lot smaller by turning it into a 256 color (or less) .gif

Quoted: OK here's another dumb question. How do I up load it? What's the difference between an up load and a down load?

I think up load is loading something on to the internet and down loading is taking something off the internet.

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Quoted: How do I create an Avitar?

I dont think your computer has enough processing power to upload an image.  Might be time to buy a new one.

Quoted: it will stretch/resize them a bit, but you can make your image a lot smaller by turning it into a 256 color (or less) .gif

A .jpg is even better for getting the file size down.

If he's using Photo Shop I'd imagine he could also export it several times trying different compression ratios.

Quoted: OK here's another dumb question. How do I up load it? What's the difference between an up load and a down load?

Save the image on your hard drive then when uploading select the "BROWSE" button and find the image on your computer. Once it is selected hit the "Upload and Save" button.

upload == send something from your computer to another
download == receive something from another computer to your computer

Your image should be a .jpg, not a .bmp or a .gif

Use an image editor (I use gimp, but there are a number of less-featureful ones out there) to resize the image to 80x60 pixels. Its not much, so don't try to use something with alot of detail (like text).

Save it somewhere on your local computer, make sure it is saved as a .jpg

Login to the photo server and select 'Avatar/SigPic'

Click on the 'Browse' button and find the image you just saved and click ok when it is selected. You should see the path to it appear in the box next to the browse button.

Click on 'Upload and Save' and you should see it show up on the photo server.

Gimp for Windows is available from here, make sure you download the gimp installer and the GTK+ 2 runtime environment.

As for other image editors for Windows (assuming that's the OS you are using), I don't have any suggestions. PCR or GMW probably do.

I downloaded the GIMP installer GTK+2, saved an appropriate jpeg pic in "My Documents", and logged on to the photo server/Avitar/Sigpic but there was no Browse Button available. What now?

Never mind, I think I figured it out......some what!

Actually I'm still hosed. I up loaded a jpg pic and it went some where but I can't find the damn thing. It was smaller than 25 KB so I know it took when I up loaded it but I don't know where the fuck it is. There are several gallerie catagories with different people's names on their pics but I have no fucking idea what happened to mine.

You can see the difference in the avitar on this reply (just a blank square) and the previous reply where I had the default avitar with the American flag. So I know something happened but I have no idea what it was or how to fix it. I hate fucking computers!

Quoted: Actually I'm still hosed. I up loaded a jpg pic and it went some where but I can't find the damn thing. It was smaller than 25 KB so I know it took when I up loaded it but I don't know where the fuck it is. There are several gallerie catagories with different people's names on their pics but I have no fucking idea what happened to mine. You can see the difference in the avitar on this reply (just a blank square) and the previous reply where I had the default avitar with the American flag. So I know something happened but I have no idea what it was or how to fix it. I hate fucking computers!

They hate you back so it all comes out even.

Quoted: Actually I'm still hosed. I up loaded a jpg pic and it went some where but I can't find the damn thing. It was smaller than 25 KB so I know it took when I up loaded it but I don't know where the fuck it is. There are several gallerie catagories with different people's names on their pics but I have no fucking idea what happened to mine. You can see the difference in the avitar on this reply (just a blank square) and the previous reply where I had the default avitar with the American flag. So I know something happened but I have no idea what it was or how to fix it. I hate fucking computers!

If you didn't check the box "turn on auto log-in" then you will have to log back in if you close and re-open the media server link. Then you should see the "avatar/sig pic" link on the top right. It should show your current avatar on the bottom in the middle. Try uploading it again maybe.

OK, I did all that now let's see if it worked.


Well shit.....it didn't work! I went thru the sequence you gave me and it showed the avitar i up loaded in the center of the screen like you said it would show up and yet when I post something (this reply for example) my avitar is blank.

Dino is right the computer is trying to get even with me!

Make sure the Avitar you are uploading is not too big.

Make it easy on yourself.

Save your picture as a jpg on your desktop.

Quoted: Make sure the Avitar you are uploading is not too big.

It's just a slightly modified version of the Gadsend flag so it souldn't be too big. It's not as intricate as some of the avitars I've seen on this forum. Instead of a coiled snake and
"Don't Tread On Me" It is a stiking snake with fangs extended with the caption "Time's Up".