Making an Avatar for this Website

[Mayalily]

Okay, my avatar for this website looks awful as you can see.

In my photoshop, I changed the png to a jpeg, is that what I did wrong?

If not, how do I create an avatar to put on this website? 

[Ceka Cianci]

you need to make the background image is all..a lot put their avatars in the background image instead of where the avatar actually goes..i think thats the last tab on the right in those settings.

[Ry0ta Exonar]

How to create a cool forum avatar \ badge

This thread will help you out.

[Cio Koba]

Yes, the thead posted before is all what you need to know how to make a forum avatar.

As for me Im not good at using photoshop, so I just took a 170x195 (size recomended on the thread) photo in-world and uploaded it directly here. 

[Mayalily]

I know, I tried to crop my photo to the correct size and got this horrible avatar. 

Thanks u all, I'll look into this and see if I can do this because I have never done layers on Photoshop if that's what u r talking about by a background?  I have another program that does layers and is so much easier to use, I might be able to use that but I'm not sure the other program supports a png.  It's an older program.  I think the program that I'm talking about where I know how to layer, uses jpeg only.  I'll need to check on that. 

But anyhow, r u talking about making a layered photo in Photoshop or another program and then importing it here? 

I still need to read the blog instructions in this thread, so that may give me some answers.  However, cry, I want to do this the easiest way! 

[Dresden Ceriano]

You're making it harder than it is... check out the link Ry0ta gave you. There's no need to fool with layers in photoshop, just crop it to the right size. And you don't have to change it to a jpg... png will upload just fine and there's less quality loss.

...Dres

[Mayalily]

Thanks Dres!  What a relief!  I was reading that blog and basically went "no way", not this year, anyhow.  

Also, I need time to do a better photo inworld, the one I used was just for testing purposes, and failed as you can see, but the photo was no good anyways, was just doing a test.  

And okay, won't change to jpeg.  For some reason I thought I might get better quality with a jpeg, but didn't, so that's no use.