Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I asked this in a different thread, only for internet explorer. How do I copy a picture and use it as an avatar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Right click on an image, choose something along the lines of "copy image location" or "copy image address" or "copy URL" and paste that in as your avatar. —Alorael, whose instructions are for taking an image you find online and using it as an avatar. Be warned that many sites frown on linking to their images, and some images aren't quite right. You can also right click, save a copy of an image, and upload it somewhere (like ImageShack). Image hosting sites are generally self-explanatory, and you take the link they give you and use that as your avatar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I'd recommend saving it and reuploading, as Alorael suggests. Tinypic is my preffered method, next to my own website of course. Just simply right-click the image, choose "Save Image as...", save it somewhere, then go to tinypic and upload the image you just used. It'll spew out a bunch of crap, you'll want to copy the "Direct Link" and paste that into the appropriate area of your SW profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: Trenton the dragon lord I asked this in a different thread, only for internet explorer. How do I copy a picture and use it as an avatar? First, you download Google Chrome. Then, you do everything W told you to do above, but way faster and with a cleaner UI and a leaner program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Trenton the dragon lord I asked this in a different thread, only for internet explorer. How do I copy a picture and use it as an avatar? First, you download Google Chrome. Then, you do everything W told you to do above, but way faster and with a cleaner UI and a leaner program. do you really want to start this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 That's nothing: I'm writing this with Telnet right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: That Silly Y Chromosome Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Trenton the dragon lord I asked this in a different thread, only for internet explorer. How do I copy a picture and use it as an avatar? First, you download Google Chrome. Then, you do everything W told you to do above, but way faster and with a cleaner UI and a leaner program. do you really want to start this. I'll second that motion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan That's nothing: I'm writing this with Telnet right now. I normally have my pet butterfly analyze the bitstream and signal it to me by flapping his wings in Morse code. Today's his day off, so I'm using Firefox (Nightly, though). Back on topic, most pictures need to be cropped and/or scaled before being used as avatars. There are lots of programs for simple image manipulation, but on Windows, the only one you don't need to install is probably Paint. Who knows, maybe it's finally stopped being so awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Windows 7 has a slightly-less awful version of Paint, but it's pretty much the exact same, just with brush options and the stupid ribbon thing (okay, maybe a little more than that, but it's no GIMP). Other than that, I don't think Paint has changed at all since Win95... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Paint was in Windows 3.1 as well. It was called Paintbrush then, but it was still basically the same program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted September 29, 2011 Author Share Posted September 29, 2011 Yaknow what? instead of doing this hard stuff, Ill just use internet explorer to get avatars >.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 The process is virtually identical regardless of browser. Either copy image URL or copy the image, host it somewhere, and them copy the hosted image's URL. —Alorael, who would go back and reread the first two replies you got. That's how you use an image as your avatar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted September 29, 2011 Author Share Posted September 29, 2011 I remember when it was simpler. Where I could click "Properties" and then copy the lines of something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 if you need to resize image then irfanview is good candidate for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Micawber Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I still don't understand how firefox went from version 4 to version 7 in such a short time. It's like they're trying to catch up numerically with IE or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Yeah, I don't even remember Firefox 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 They're moving to a rapid release style of updates. Or rather, they're continuing doing what they've always been doing, but are now incrementing the major version number. Which is rather silly, since the major version number is supposed to tell users what versions break compatibility, but I suppose it's a marketing strategy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: Micawber I still don't understand how firefox went from version 4 to version 7 in such a short time. It's like they're trying to catch up numerically with IE or something. Well, obviously the higher the version number, the better the software. So Internet Explorer 1.0 might have been a terrible program, but Internet Explorer TREE[3] is clearly the greatest computer program ever written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius So Internet Explorer 1.0 might have been a terrible program, but Internet Explorer TREE[3] is clearly the greatest computer program ever written. But it'll be nothing when Mozilla Firefox n(4)^GRAHAMS NUMBER comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan They're moving to a rapid release style of updates. Or rather, they're continuing doing what they've always been doing, but are now incrementing the major version number. Which is rather silly, since the major version number is supposed to tell users what versions break compatibility, but I suppose it's a marketing strategy. "Now releasing FireFox Google!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 I don't understand Firefox's release scheme either, but it doesn't matter since I'm still using a PPC PowerBook. Lack of intel leaves me with the latest stable version of Firefox 3, which is still receiving support. Firefox 3 and 7 get support, but nothing in between. Strange... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: Master1 I don't understand Firefox's release scheme either, but it doesn't matter since I'm still using a PPC PowerBook. Lack of intel leaves me with the latest stable version of Firefox 3, which is still receiving support. Firefox 3 and 7 get support, but nothing in between. Strange... In the army when we had a lack of intel, we sent out reconnaissance patrols. Actually, I should have stuck with Firefox 3. It was much more stable than my Firefox 4. Dare I upgrade to 7? BTW, only Ver3 and 7 get support??? That is strange... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: Master1 I don't understand Firefox's release scheme either, but it doesn't matter since I'm still using a PPC PowerBook. Lack of intel leaves me with the latest stable version of Firefox 3, which is still receiving support. Firefox 3 and 7 get support, but nothing in between. Strange... They probably leave support for v3 just for that reason...ff4 introduced a whole crapton of new stuff, both visually and under the hood (such as a big upgrade to the Gecko display engine)...I imagine it's also the last version that works on older Windows OSes as well... With regards to the rapid release cycle, I don't like it either, but since I'm on the nightly build I update pretty much whenever i close firefox, so yeah...I imagine it's a real pain for the techie people for corporations that use FF... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Apple tries recon, and what they got was a bunch of big cats. Also, Firefox Google is just silly. The number is googol. —Alorael, who doesn't think anything is more complicated. Now instead of clicking properties, you right click and most of what you want is there. Of course, if it's on your desktop you still click Properties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 It also helps if you think of the rapid release cycle as regular minor updates with different numbers. From 4 to 7 has been a series of minor changes, just bigger numbers. I may not understand the rational, but it's not unusual for a string of updates to come out after a big rehashing like FF4. For whatever reason, Mozilla just decided to use bigger numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: Flame Blade Originally Posted By: Dantius So Internet Explorer 1.0 might have been a terrible program, but Internet Explorer TREE[3] is clearly the greatest computer program ever written. But it'll be nothing when Mozilla Firefox n(4)^GRAHAMS NUMBER comes out. Google Chrome A(GRAHAMS NUMBER, GRAHAMS NUMBER)beta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 FF3.6.x is long term support version while FF4.x--6.x were short term supprt versions, FF is planning to make other lts version cause when other companies software sertification gets ready there's new version of FF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 6, 2011 Author Share Posted October 6, 2011 Is it the same way to put pictures on with google chrome? (which I recently installed and now use) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 As noted before, the method is almost independent of the browser. (If image manipulation commands are approximately conserved, there must be some sort of symmetry present. . . ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 6, 2011 Author Share Posted October 6, 2011 I uploaded it on ImageShack and put it as my avatar and it worked, however I CANT SEE IT! can anyone else or is it a grey space with a small file with shapes on it in the middle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 You are linking to the ImageShack page rather than to the image itself. Try changing it in your profile to this link: http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4241/46937587.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 6, 2011 Author Share Posted October 6, 2011 It worked...Thank you Tyranicus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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