just want to know how i can put my own picture in my avatre,can any body help.

ME TOO! brilliant computer crazed kids can't do it so how is an old computer illiterate supposed to figure it out?

iirc i put my avatar pic in my archive then cut and paste the link into my control panel avatar area.

I seem to recall there are a couple of how to posts too somewhere. Might be worth an ickle search.

Resize pic to 150px wide

Upload to your photo archive on here

Open the pic

Right click and select properites

Copy the url (highlight and press ctrl and c)

Go to your control panel on here (link in top right)

Go to edit profile

Paste (ctrl and v) the url you copied into the avatar url box

Job done

how do i resize my picture

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Originally posted by john77cars
how do i resize my picture

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you can also do it pretty east in "paint" now I'm a pc numpty but mange to shrink photos in paint.


eta the T is very close to the Y on the key board so CBA to edit east to easy.

[Edited on 21/9/09 by Jon Ison]

as jon says, resize in ms paint. Its under the edit tab, stretch/skew.

iv resized picture,all im getting is a red cross,what im i doing wrong

you used this link:

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/F12536_7b5c6115a4d33f992663138064aa0bb9.jpg07134_7b5c6115a4d33f992663138064aa0bb9.jpgorum

you should've used this link:

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/upload/1253607134_7b5c6115a4d33f992663138064aa0bb9.jpg

still doesnt work,or is it me been thick

it you lol!

when i right click on your red X and select properties, your avatar url shows up with some junk on the end - i guess you didnt delete all the old one. Have a look and see!

which bit do i need to paste,this is getting a joke now

copy this:

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/upload/1253607134_7b5c6115a4d33f992663138064aa0bb9.jpg


into the box in control panel called avatar url, and it should work.

problem at the min is that it says a bit of it twice:

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/www.locostbuilders.co.uk/upload/1253607134_7b5c6115a4d33f992663138064aa0bb9.jpg

[Edited on 21/9/09 by JoelP]

its worked,thank you very much for the help

thank fook for that!

might change mine actually, it a bit grim, having a row of skulls as an avatar!

[Edited on 21/9/09 by JoelP]

think this needs to be updated a bit, and put as a sticky to the computer/site problem forum, or somewhere else more obvious

i'm not getting at anyone here, but the same sort of questions always come up, avatars, inserting photos into posts, more than 1 photo in each post etc

might be useful for the help to be updated and promoted a bit more

One of the bike forums I'm a member of has a 'How to post pictures' sticky that is now over 5 pages long!
The trouble always is that the people who know how to do it always seem to struggle to put it in simple enough non-tech language so that computer numpties like me can understand!