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[AZ Husker]

Went into my settings to use a new avatar. Entered a URL from Photobucket but kept getting an "insert URL" error. What am I doing wrong?

 

[admin]

What's the URL of the image?

 

[AZ Husker]

It's a long sumbitch. I copied the URL choice in Photobucket and tried to paste it here, but just received the error msg.

 

[AZ Husker]

I just sent you a PM Admin with the URL and the photo showed up. Too large.

 

[admin]

Yeah, avatars aren't designed to be big pictures that are just made smaller, otherwise page loads would take a long time. You will need to resize it to avatar size and then upload it. If you don't know how to do that on your computer, you can try something like this (never tried it, just first Google result): http://www.simpleimageresizer.com/

 

[John Kuhns]

I edited mine down on my PC and uploaded locally. Took just a few minutes to do so.

 

[admin]

I edited mine down on my PC and uploaded locally. Took just a few minutes to do so.

That's what most do - and certainly the easiest way, but some aren't knowledgeable with how to do that.