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Site & Board Matters => About This Site => Topic started by: Shirley Bracken on December 22, 2009, 07:51:02 am

Title: Avatars
Post by: Shirley Bracken on December 22, 2009, 07:51:02 am

I'm not sure where to ask this.  I can not add an avatar from my files.  Doesn't even give me an avatar choice from my files.  It only has from your selection of pictures or from the internet.  Can't I choose one and upload it from my files?

Title: Avatars
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 22, 2009, 10:20:29 am

Quote from: Shirley Bracken

I'm not sure where to ask this.  I can not add an avatar from my files.  Doesn't even give me an avatar choice from my files.  It only has from your selection of pictures or from the internet.  Can't I choose one and upload it from my files?

The only way you can use one of your own files as an avatar is to place it on a publicly-accessible website. On my website, for example, I have a folder which contains only the file which I use as my avatar, sized appropriately. None of the links on my website refer to it directly, so most people won't know that it's there. The only link to it is the one I posted here for my avatar.

I hope this helps.

Eric 

Title: Avatars
Post by: Shirley Bracken on December 22, 2009, 10:40:33 am

Thanks Eric!

Title: Avatars
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on June 19, 2010, 03:07:34 pm

Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes

The only way you can use one of your own files as an avatar is to place it on a publicly-accessible website. On my website, for example, I have a folder which contains only the file which I use as my avatar, sized appropriately. None of the links on my website refer to it directly, so most people won't know that it's there. The only link to it is the one I posted here for my avatar.
Eric 

Sorry - forget the message below. I was confusing a personal photo with an avatar. Problem solved with an astonishingly accurate self-portrait, as you can see.



I've finally tried to set up a photo for myself but can't get it to work. I click the "Choose" button in my profile settings and select a file from either my local disk or my iDisk. When I then click "Save settings", I get a message saying the upload failed. It then suggests I contact a system administrator but I thought I'd try general wisdom first.

Help!

Jeremy

Title: Avatars
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 19, 2010, 03:29:05 pm

Quote from: kikashi

Sorry - forget the message below. I was confusing a personal photo with an avatar. Problem solved with an astonishingly accurate self-portrait, as you can see.

Jeremy

Jeremy,

I'm glad you chose one with you smiling. Frowning wouldn't have looked quite so friendly.   


Eric

Title: Avatars
Post by: stamper on June 20, 2010, 03:55:16 am

[quote name='kikashi' date='Jun 19 2010, 08:07 PM' post='371898']
Sorry - forget the message below. I was confusing a personal photo with an avatar. Problem solved with an astonishingly accurate self-portrait, as you can see.



Are you really that good looking?

Title: Avatars
Post by: John McDermott on June 20, 2010, 06:39:34 am

Jeremy, what was your solution? I have had the same problem and hae not been able to solve it.

Title: Avatars
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on June 20, 2010, 11:52:49 am

... an astonishingly accurate self-portrait, as you can see.

Quote from: stamper

Are you really that good looking?

Alas, no. I know an excellent retouch artist, though. He's done wonders with my teeth.

Jeremy

Title: Avatars
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on June 20, 2010, 11:54:40 am

Quote from: jemcder

Jeremy, what was your solution? I have had the same problem and hae not been able to solve it.

Go to "My Controls" (link at top of this page), then click on "Edit avatar settings" about half-way down the left hand side of the page.

You have to provide a link to a photo kept somewhere else. Maximum 150x150 pixels, 100k.

Jeremy