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Friday 25 April 2008, 12:53 PM
Upload your own avatars to ZDNet Community
OK, its a pretty small piece of functionality, but we've just added a feature to allow you to upload your own avatars to ZDNet. When you're logged in and go to you profile page you'll see a 'change picture' button below your picture. You should be able to figure it out from there. Just note that images should be 100 pixels square. You can upload larger images and they'll be scaled. You can upload rectangular images, in which case they'll be cropped automatically to a square, which means that if your face is over to one side of the image it might get lost altogether. Best stick to squares.
If you already had one of our stock avatars your profile will retain this until you decide to upgrade to a real picure of you. Go on, you know it's always good to put a face to a name.
PreviousComments on this post
I see you didn't get your face in the middle!
Use Paint.NET or GIMP to do the necessary editing and converting to 100 pixels in Windows, or use GIMP in Linux.
Why is my own Avatar, recently installed, not showing for my comment above (or this one)?
I didn't. That's because that picture is actually from a (relatively sober) party and I wanted to cut someone off whose head was next to me. I'm a big fan of GIMP and used that to produce this - maybe I'll hunt round for a better pictuer at home this weekend :-)
That's a good question about why your new avatar is not showing. I'll raise it as a bug right away.
Moley (and everyone else), your avatar should now be appearing correctly on your comments to blog posts. Thanks for raising the bug.
