Setting up a profile picture

[Brevin Azura]

Yeah how do you do that? I want to use a picture of myself as my avatar picture, like Elik and Anvil have done, but have no idea how to do it. Help?

[Anvil]

go to your profile and click "modify profile"
look down the page and you will see a place to put your avatar, most forums require you to link to a picture stored somewhere else like on photobucket. Put the link to the photo there and set the size- save -done.

[Brevin Azura]

i still can't get it to work. I'm trying to take a picture off of facebook, as I don't have anything on photobucket (that I'm aware of).

[Ematai]

It has to be small enough to work. What picture do you want? I can help you out if needed.

[Elik]

Drag your picture to your desktop, then upload it to photobucket. then copy the "direct link" portion. then put it in the avatar part

[Brevin Azura]

here's the picture I want:
www.facebook.com/home.php#!/photo.php?pid=30521872&fbid=1122737305602&op=7&o=global&view=global&subj=541489326&id=1142160191

Is there a way for me to shrink it down? I don't need ALL the trees and grass

[Ematai]

Just save it, upload it in photobucket, then edit it there. You can crop it there. Or even edit it in paint. I couldn't get to the picture from that link though.

[Brevin Azura]

Okay, I'll try that. For some reason 3/4 of the link didn't copy right...

[Brevin Azura]

It's still not working I saved it to my desktop but now my computer won't let me select it for importing into photobucket. Unless you know any other tricks, I'll have to wait and take a different picture and save that to my computer