Avatar is a picture that displays under your nickname whenever you make a post. You can post without it, but most members opt for having one, one of the reasons being that you are more recognisable.

First, you will need a picture. That should be a .jpg or a .gif. Now, go to "My Profile" and scroll down, the Avatar section is on the bottom of the page.

You now have 2 choices, you can upload your picture to pinky-street.com server or you can find a place of your own to host the picture for you.

If you are uploading the image to our server, the picture has to be of these dimensions: 150 pixels wide by 200 pixels tall at maximum and the size can be up to 7KB only. This is a restriction forced by the software and it's not something I can change.



If you have an image editing software (Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, etc) they will allow you to scale down the image and play with different settings, like quality of jpg to achieve the size allowed.

If your image is not displaying, check the size and file format to see if that's what's causing the problem.

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If you opt for hosting your image somewhere else, you are not limited in file size, but please be aware that the bigger the picture size load longer and slower, so those with slower connections suffer.




Also, please be aware of our forum's guidelines for Avatar dimensions.

I hope this will help with Avatar problems. If you need more help, please post your questions/comments in this thread and I'll update this section with new informtion.


Signature can be an image or text that will display underneath your post, separated from it by a line. Before you add a signature, please familiarise yourself with the guidelines and please follow them. "Repeat offenders" will get their signatures disabled  all together.



Go to "My Profile" and scroll down about half way, until you find the "Profile Information" section. For text signature, just type in the text you want. To insert an image, it has to exist on the web somewhere, not just on your local computer. Enclose the URL within the image tags: [img][/img]. For example:


For more information on other available tags, see this post.

thanx inga this was really needed

Thank you, Inga!

It's possible to change the sentence under my nickname and on the image? Or it will change automatically when I will post more times?

Thanks!!!  

It will change as you post more. And once you're a regular, you'll probably get your own special nick-name (check out the General forum, "the elephant in the room" I think the thread is called if you want more info).

Thanks a lot!!!    And you can speack spanish? You are from Argentina!! I'm from Spain!!!  Hola, mucho gusto de conocerte!!!!  :peyes:

Per Inga, in another thread, when responding to someone's 300th post:



The thread is here.

You can also use the Search capability at the top of the page to find answers to your questions.

Yes I speak Spanish (pretty fluently, I would like to think), but I am not from Argentina. I was just living there (I finally got home -- north of Chicago, in the US -- just last weekend) for about 5 months doing a study/internship program.

I've got something that looks like a broken Jpeg, underneath "not too shy to talk". . . . It looks like that's where my old avatar would be if we were using the old phbb board.

I went in to my profile a couple of times, but couldn't find the link to the old address or my old pic posted anywhere.

I have a new avatar now and shouldn't my selecting the one just replace the other?

What's wrong with my information and how do I fix it?

And if it's not a broken jpeg, what is it?

thank you for the tutorial, Inga!     this is so helpful!  i'm still learning how to do this stuff, and how to take pics of Pinkys 

did the sig restrictions change? mine is cut off... 

guess so... ill have to go resize the ^-^

Not that I know of  but if you're viewing from a laptop or a smaller resolution screen some things will automatically cut off on the right side . 

If anyone wants an avatar or signature made, I'll make either for nothing!  I just love making them and they are easy for me, so I volunteer myself to those who don't have the resources to make them. I can draw a requested image or include an image that you request, just PM me with details if you want one! 

I hope I can post this here. 

As this thread seems to be the target of some slimy spammer lately, I'm locking it for now to hopefully stop them.