AVATAR: The Ultimate Help

how can i make this avatar fade into the background?

i've got this transparent .gif , but the avatar's a .jpg..

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[edit on 30-10-2008 by adrenochrome]

ok i've saved my avatar in .gif format, now how can i get it to be somewhat transparent on top of my background??

Hello, Everyone.

Just testing the water...

[edit on 2-12-2008 by Icarus_Fallen]

[edit on 2-12-2008 by Icarus_Fallen]

Checking the signature...

Thanks for this thread, I've been wondering how to do this for ages.

Cheers!

Please, please please- I have tried and tried , but I have a very specific idea for an avatar. Please some help. (It just involves putting some text onto a pic I have and making it look like an official govt. seal.

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If you have Photoshop, you can make the background a separate layer from the pic and use the transparency setting to make the pic transparent to the background.

Naturally Im going to do more reading than posting on ATS. So if you see that my handle reads member is on ATS now that's what I'm doing. I would like to point out also that this site feels extremely futuristic, like some sort of Multifaced Intelligent Being wrapped around a good cause. A spaceship city if you will. If you can read this Richard C Hoagland and Jim Marrs I have a question for each of you but Im such a procrastinator that it may take a while for me to deliver my question as eloquently as possible all in all this is My kind of place.

wow! for newbies like me, things like these are of great help. who would have thought that this is the greeting i will get. an instruction on how to make my very first and own avatar. grat work sir! thanks!


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[edit on 2-3-2009 by 12m8keall2c]

OK - It seems as if things may have changed with the new Media Portal.

I get to the Member Center and then click on Member Upload Space but then it asks me to use the new Media Portal. So far, so good. Then when I go to the new Media Portal there's a note to say it's not to be used for uploading Avatars but it doesn't tell me what I should do instead.

Help please!

Many thanks

Edit to say - I did it! Now you have to go to 'My Pictures' and upload your pic to an album then use 'options' to use it as your avatar.

[edit on 9-3-2009 by Maya00a]

I posted on this site today and my avatar did not show up.Has ATS changed the rules for the avatar content. It seems to me that any avatar religious in nature has been banned! Is there any truth to this? If so, please explain to me why you have chosen to do this.

[edit on 12-3-2009 by Zeus2573]

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Yeah, the rules did change. You have to upload your avatar to the Media Portal, then use the link it gives you for your avatar.

[edit on 3/12/09 by enjoies05]

I've uploaded a JPEG image into the "my pictures" section & selected it as an avatar. I get confirmation it is selected, but there is no avatar on my profile or my posts.

[edit on 14-3-2009 by Sam60]

It looks like you used the thumbnail of the picture as your avatar. You want to click the thumbnail and it'll give you the actual picture and the link to use it as your avatar.

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Thanks.
I did that & now it's too wide. Does that mean I can't use the picture as my avatar?

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You'd just have to resize it and upload it again.

Avatar size shoud be 160 pixels wide by 320 pixels tall and 75k in size.

Hi enjoies05 you wouldnt happen to know how much upload space you get with the new media portal?

[edit on 14-3-2009 by kode]

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The max file size for one upload is 50mb, but SkepticOverlord said there was no limit to how many files you could upload.

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Cool. Thats a fair bit more then the old upload center