Help with avatar

[Takun]

Im sort of confused on how to put my own picture up for and avatar. I can get the URL if that even has anything to do with it. But can someone please point me in the right direction?

[Rev Rabies]

just paste the url into the "i have my own pic" box, you don't need the IMG brackets

[Vaati]

And it needs to be either a gif. or jpg. image and should be 100 x 75 pixels.

[Gamefreak]

And it has to be 100 x 100.

[Vaati]

And even until you get the hang of it, you could just use one of the avatar TDC has, that's what I did.

[Takun]

Ok thanks I'll try that.


*Ok, well now I did that and a little picture of an red X inside of a white box is showing up where the pic would be. Is it showing up on your computors or is it messed up?*

[darkphantomime]

Not showing up for me... No idea why some people are having trouble with this either.

[JDog]

its not showing on my pc either.

[Fishalicious]

Does the file name end with .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif? Or is it a viewing thing?

For example, if it's from photobucket, and you put this:

http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r153/faceless_nothing/avatars/loveless/?action=view&current=009.png

instead of this:

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r153/faceless_nothing/avatars/loveless/009.png

You would get this:



instead of this:

[Commodore Axilon]

Yes, make sure you're looking at the address of the picture itself and not the page it's on.

[Takun]

Ok I think I know what I did wrong. Is it working now?

[Keaton]

No, it isn't.

Make sure that it has an http:// prefix, or it won't work.

[Takun]

Yeah I did that already. I already realized the issue. I checked the picture and it's over 100x100. I tried altering it but when I do that I cant get the URL. It's ok, Ive given up on the pic.

[Commodore Axilon]

Well, once you get it down to 100x100, you can upload it to Photobucket/ImageShack/et al..

[Keaton]

Or, you could upload it onto photobucket, then click the 'avatar size' or whatever button, and it'll automatically scale it down to 100x100 or less... :P