still festering in avatar land...................

Someone PLEASE help me out here...........
I found an image put it in my pictures album, media portal............
got the http address ans all that and set my picture........
have a look at my profile pic..............
how do I rectify this............
it's driving me mad!!!
Iv'e been messing around with this silly thing for far too long now..........
CAN SOMEONE GIVE ME AN EASY IDIOT PROOF SOLLUTION TO THIS DILEMA PLEASE?????!!!!!
Thank-you

Your image must be resized to 160 x 300, no more.
Use image editor, crop image and center it.
Then, upload result to your account, then paste new link into your profile.
Cheers!

Hi bugsybond! I went through the same agony. It turned out to be the size of the picture I wanted to use. You have to resize it to no larger than 160 x 320. Try that before you go mad... it might be the problem.

That image is way too big for use as an Avatar. You can only use images up to 160 X 320 in size.

Here, I resized it for you.

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/15c196279de6.gif[/atsimg]

Just use the following URL in the Avatar URL field of your profile:

http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/15c196279de6.gif

Hope this helps.

I know what you mean, in theory..................................
if you feel a slight rumble and see a fireball on the horizon, know you did your best.............
thanks, watch and see...........

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please bear with me here...............where do I open the pic in order to edit it wih image editor??
I couldn't find such an option to edit the image anywhere.....
sorry if I sound like a complete idiot.................only..............................I AM!!!!!!!!!
In the meantime, I have it sorted thanks to 12m8.............
who cropped and sent me the http address
it took a few tries but got it in the end...........................
thank-you all

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i use paint.net to edit images or you can use Microsoft Office picture manager (you need Office XP).
Anyhow, paint.net is free and it's easy to use as well
Hope this helps.

Originally posted by teklordz
Your image must be resized to 160 x 300, no more.
Use image editor, crop image and center it.
Then, upload result to your account, then paste new link into your profile.
Cheers!

Sweet thanks for the tip!

I just wanted to add that you can go to download.com and get a program called Gimp, it's not as nice but has many features that of Photoshop if you want get fancy on your editing. It's free of charge!