Prairie Pointer
So I just also found out that you can add an "avatar" to your account. What is that difference between a profile picture and an avatar? The profile picture is the picture that appears on your profile (you're saying no duh!) when someone clicks on your name. Your profile is where you can put information about yourself, including a picture. Click on mine as an example.
An avatar is the little picture that appears under or beside you name whenever you post something and is a little trickier to add. Here's what you do:
1) Go to "settings" at the top right of the screen while logged in
2) Click on "edit avatar" on the left hand column
3) Either upload a picture from your hardrive or find a site with a picture you like.
Here is the tricky part though. The picture must be 80 x 80 pixels. To get a picture like that, you either have to use a photo editing program to edit a file on your computer so you can resize and save it at 80 x 80, or find a picture on the web that size. I suggest the latter. Here's how you do it:
1) Go to Google and click "images" on the top left.
2) Whatever the picture you are searching for, you must enter "imagesize:80x80" right after your search terms. So if you were looking for a cat picture, you would search "cat imagesize:80x80"
3) This search brings up a whole bunch of cat pictures size 80 x 80 pixels. Select the one you want. This will take you too the website where the picture is from.
4) At the top of the page you will see the link "See full size image". Click it!
5) Behold, this is the web address (aka URL) that you can copy and paste into your "edit avatar" page under "settings"
6) Now you are officially cool. Pat yourself on the back!
You can also visit different free avatar sites and download them from there. One example is:
Make sure you only download the 80 x 80 ones, because many are actually 100 x 100.
An avatar is the little picture that appears under or beside you name whenever you post something and is a little trickier to add. Here's what you do:
1) Go to "settings" at the top right of the screen while logged in
2) Click on "edit avatar" on the left hand column
3) Either upload a picture from your hardrive or find a site with a picture you like.
Here is the tricky part though. The picture must be 80 x 80 pixels. To get a picture like that, you either have to use a photo editing program to edit a file on your computer so you can resize and save it at 80 x 80, or find a picture on the web that size. I suggest the latter. Here's how you do it:
1) Go to Google and click "images" on the top left.
2) Whatever the picture you are searching for, you must enter "imagesize:80x80" right after your search terms. So if you were looking for a cat picture, you would search "cat imagesize:80x80"
3) This search brings up a whole bunch of cat pictures size 80 x 80 pixels. Select the one you want. This will take you too the website where the picture is from.
4) At the top of the page you will see the link "See full size image". Click it!
5) Behold, this is the web address (aka URL) that you can copy and paste into your "edit avatar" page under "settings"
6) Now you are officially cool. Pat yourself on the back!
You can also visit different free avatar sites and download them from there. One example is:
Make sure you only download the 80 x 80 ones, because many are actually 100 x 100.
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