Help me set up my avatar please

Im wicked retarded on the computer. How do I get a picture I have to be my avatar? Ive been to MyHome and clicked edit and tried to just type in the .JPG address but it just shows a blank square when i do that. Anyone know?

Anyone?

[LetYouDown]

You need to host it on the web somewhere. You can't just choose an image on your machine, no one else's computer knows where C:\I'mRetarded\BadAvatar.jpg is.

[Reef]

use this URL (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/reef/zipzang2.jpg)

or this one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/reef/moses.jpg)

Thank you. And I did. More so because i dont want to bother doing it the hard way than really liking the URL. Appreciate it!

[MrWookie47]

I must be dislexic, or else I spend far too much time in OOT. I keep wanting to read your SN as DMoranD.

[Stuey]

1. Find the image you want.

2. Save it on your computer.

3. Find a place online to host the image. This site will explain where and how to host the image better. (http://www.avispot.com/?template=imagehost)

4. Once you get the image uploaded to the host you picked in step 3 you will get a URL. A URL is the address of your image. It will look something like this.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Stue[/b]y2plus2/riffraff.jpg

5. Now that you know the address of your image online you just have to tell 2+2 where it is.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Stuey2plus2/main.gif


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Stuey2plus2/home.gif


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Stuey2plus2/url.gif

That should do it but some common mistakes can cause it not to work.

1. Only use images that end with .gif .jpg .png

2. It works best if the image is 80x80 or at least square as in 180x180 as when 2+2 resizes it to 80x80 it will distort the image if it is not truely square.

3. The URL must be valid. All valid URL's have http:// at the start and must end with a extension listed above. If one letter or slash is wrong it won't work look close to be sure you got it right.

There are other things that could go wrong but these are the normal ones. If you want help resizing a pic or finding a way to get it hosted I can try to help. I just need to be albe to find the image so if it is something you found on the internet just give me the link to the picture and I should be able to do it. Feel free to pm me if you run into trouble as I am pretty much a avatar freak. Generally just a freak really but it aplies to avatars as well.

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