Avatars
First of all, incase you don’t already know, the avatar is the little picture that appears under your username. It’s nice to have to show a little bit of your personality, and also helps in keeping track of who’s who when reading through a thread quickly. This is not to be confused with the profile picture, which will only show up in your profile, not as an avatar.
Now, this next bit may look long, but don’t worry, it’s a very simple step by step process that takes no more than a couple of minutes to complete. I promise.
To get or change your avatar, first go to the blue bar at the top of the page. From here you have a couple of options, you can either click “User CP” or “Quick Links”. Quick Links brings down another bunch of options, click on any of the “edit” options (i.e. edit options; edit your details; etc) You can also click on your “Private Messages”. However you decided to get there, you should now have a bar of options on the left side of your screen that says “Your control panel”. Scroll down that list until you see “edit avatar”. From there just follow the instructions. Keep in mind the size limit, 50 x 50 pixels or 9.8 kb, whichever is smaller. This is the most common problem people encounter when trying to upload an avatar. Resizing can be done quickly and easily in pretty much any basic paint or photoshop program. If you have followed all of these steps and are still having problems, then you can contact a moderator or start a thread in Support.
