Weight Watchers - Fun With Icons

One of the fun things is putting a "face" with your name!

This is the way I do it. If anyone has other/easier ways, please post!

You can choose from 13 wonderful ones from our BB by going to
profile/edit options/ change avatar
and clicking on one of the pictures. Remember to click on "submit modifications."

Or you could scan a pix of yourself and scale it to a 60x60 image.
Select profile/ edit options / change avatar
Then click on yes on the "custom" at the bottom and click on "browse" to upload the image from your computer and point to the location on your computer where you stored your image.

Or you could go to
http://www.aol.americangreetings.com/tribe/iam/
and select from their library of icons/avatars.
Choose your icon/avatar and right click on it.
Select "save picture as."
Rename the icon file name from the number to something you'll remember (such as iconflower, icondog, iconsmile, etc).
Save it where you will remember it (such as My Documents, or create a file called Icons/Avatar ).

Now go back to 3FatChicks and open your profile.
Select Edit Options/ change avatar.
Click on yes at the bottom for custom.
Click on browse for the "upload from your computer."
Go back to the folder where you saved your icon/avatar and highlight the icon/avatar you saved.

Remember to click on "submit modifications."

This is so much fun, I might change my avatar on a regular basis!!

Have fun.... and post if you find other sites with good avatars to choose from.

Nancy (no, that is not a true portrait of me... but it captures my spirit! It is something I would do!!)

Thanks for the info. I added a kitty and want to see if it comes out. So this is really a test.

I think I did it wrong. I'll try again.

NJNancy :wave:

I had already found some sites, but the pictures on amgerican greetings are so much more me :D. The sites I had are http://freezone.com/bts/fztimes/vol5/avatar.html, http://www.animationfactory.com./ and http://www.ssanimation.com/. However some of the pictures are large and may need cropping.


Have fun

:rolleyes:

When I tried it, it told me my computer has performed an illegal operation :eek: any ideas what I may have done wrong? It happened when I clicked on submit when I tried to change the time so it is correct for where I live and the button for the picture.

Justme - it took me quite a few goes to do it and i followed the instructions. Keep trying - you'll get there!

Thanks for the web sites. I was having a hard time finding any!
I thought I would start a new thread to find out just the info you gave us.
:)

Trying out my new picture, hope it works.

:dizzy:

Ginaki and Annie-- Yeah!! You did it!

BFBooty-- Thanks for the sites! Wow there are tens of thousands of icons to choose from! We can use those in our messages, too. I guess we do that in an "attach file" or in our signature. I'll be playing with that!

Justme-- How disappointing. Keep trying. On Sunday the board was experiencing some technical difficulties and maintenance. Maybe it was the board and not you. I would first try using one of the 13 avatars from 3FC. See if the modification takes. If that works, then try bringing one in from a file on your computer.

The board sure is lively with all this graphics!

This is a test to see if I can add an animated picture to my message.

msg#2: That was TOO EASY!! All I did was save an icon, click on "attach a file" and pointed to the file and icon. This is too much fun!

Oh, and BTW that is not green beer, but GREEN WATER!! I'll share it with you... go ahead, pour and enjoy a glass!

Here I thought it was beer!

Kinda scary when Green Beer actually looked good at 8:30 in the morning! :D

now i know why i don't like water :nono:

while i'm on, i've seen a couple of posts saying "pulling up" "bumping up", sorry i don't get it. can anyone explain :?:

BFB

That just means we are pulling up the thread to the top for someone to reference to. Sometimes important threads get moved to the 2nd, 3rd or more pages and someone asks the same question...so we "bump" it up for them to read!

There are NO stupid questions! :)

Thank you :D

I dont know what my problem is,I can get to where the pictures are but cant click on them. I tried to click change avatar but it said my computer performed an an illegal operation again. I dont know much about computers so I dont know what I am doing wrong.I feel so embarrrased that I cant figure it out.

I am a little closer I found a cute picture on one of the sites and have it saved on my computer I just cant get it to this site I keep having problems when I click on avatar any suggestions?????

Woo Hoo - GUI @ 3FC!

Justme

I found the Help Section under Chicken Coop is a gold mine of info, there were loads of posts testing icons, avatars. I would try and pull/bump it up, but i don't know how to do it - maybe I need to go back to the Help section :lol:

cool.

Testing........

Testing again.........

Testing...

Thanks for sharing that information with us!

Just have to try it out myself.

JustMe,

When your computer says you performed an illegal operation it doesn't mean it was your fault! It's usually an internal conflict between two or more files or programs that are running, and sometimes the best thing to do is save your work and re-boot the computer. That usually knocks some sense into it so it will behave better for you!

:) Annie

THANK YOU ! everyone I finally did it. Now I want to try and use the avatar I saved on my computer. BigFat Booty. I love yours its really cute :)

Justme..

do you think it will look as cute as a tattoo? :s:

I think it would be cute as a tattoo. Mabey you could get it somewhere where you could still make it dance :lol:

I think it would be adorable as a Tatoo! I agree ~ it definately could be placed in the proper area! :s:

That is one think I am getting ~ when I get to goal!

I just have not decided what I want yet.

Any cool suggestions.

Let's see if this works!


Nay

NJ Nancy, you definitely got the cutest -- when I first saw, I thought you had really taken a picture of yourself with funny nose and glasses (okay, I didn't see at first that it was a little girl).

Thanks for this great tip!

I am so glad so many people are using an avatar!
It does add some personality to our posts. I find it is easier to scan through a thread to find the recent posts.

Yeah, JustMe!! Glad you finally got it to work!


Speaking of scanning through posts, with this one going to two pages it is time for a new one. But this time it will move to the proper forum--

The Coop/ Help
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=3155

My apologies to our Administrator, Suzanne... I never saw the Coop list.. I never scrolled beyond WeightWatchers and Recipes!

Let's see if I loaded the avatar properly. Thanks for posting the links, y'all!! BTW, I found mine at www.iconbazaar.com.

This subject sounded like a lot of fun. I am really just testing to see if it will work.:)

Just a test.

Grooooovy. Thanks for the cool info!

:D

=Jaime

Just had to test :)

I am just checking to see if this worked or not

:angel:

Thanks for the info. How do you put smilies into you replies? I think they are cute. Also on the topics I see flaming file folders and smilies. How do you place those? Sorry for so many questions.

test

pulling up

Look at my little pony. :)

Testing 1 2 3!!! Hope this works! My puppy Sandy will be pleased:):):)
googies:):):)

just a test

lets give it another go

Thank you for the instructions on the icons. I found this post by mistake, and I've been wondering how everyone gets the cute pictures! Tell me---how do you get them at the end of your post, or anywhere in your post? I can't figure it out.

Thanks in advance!

Looks look fun...

Here it goes.


Jan