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9/2/2007 6:56 AM

	NickJ4eva
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*TUTORIAL: How To Make/Upload An Avatar Or Signature*

Ok I made this tutorial to show people how to make and upload and Avatar and Signature for using on the Jonas Brothers Fan Forum Boards. If you have read all the steps and still have trouble please post on this board and I will answer next time I am on. Also if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Thanks,
~Libby~(NickJ4eva)

How to make an Avatar or Signature

There are three ways you can get and Avatar or Banner:

1) By making one yourself (see below for more details)
2) By finding a pre-made and using that (you can get them from fansites)
3) By asking someone to make one for you

To make your own Avatar or Banner you need and image editing application, some examples of image editing applications are:

1) Paint (comes with windows operating system)
2) Adobe Photoshop Elements
3) Adobe Photoshop CS

There are other image editing program out there, so search around!

You may be wondering what program I use to make my Avatars and Banners, I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 on my MacBook.

Things to keep in mind when making an Avatar or Banner:

1) Avatars can only be of a certain File Type (see ‘To Upload Your Avatar’ section)
2) Avatars can only be 100x100 pixels (see ‘To Upload Your Avatar’ section)
3) Avatars can only be 1000KB in size (see ‘To Upload Your Avatar’ section)
4) A Banner can only be 400 pixels wide

Note: Site requirements may change

To Upload Your Avatar

1) Go to My Settings which is located up the top beneath the site banner as shown below:

2) It should bring you to a page that says ‘User Settings’, look down to where it has a Sub-heading that says ‘User Settings’ as well. Click the ‘+’ sign as displayed below:

3) Look down to the title that says 'Avatar:' Click the file button with the manifying glass as shown below:

4) First make sure your avatar image meets the file requirements, then ‘Choose File’ , locate and select you avatar image. Click Upload and wait:

5) When is has uploaded (if it hasn’t, go back to step 3) you need to go back to you User settings page and hit ‘Update’, if you don’t your Avatar will not show up:

To Upload Your Siggy

1) First of all you need to upload your Banner to an external image hosting site, some examples of image hosting sites are:

>>>>>Photobucket (CLICK HERE)<<<<

>>>>Image Shack (CLICK HERE)<<<<

Please follow the external site’s instructions on how to upload your Banner image

Photobucket requires you have an account before you can upload images, whereas Image shack doesn’t require you to have an account.

There are more Image hosting sites out there, search around and find the one that works for you!

You may be wondering which Image hosting site I use, well because I like my images to be more organised and private I use Photobucket.

2) Once you have successfully uploaded your banner to an external Image hosting site, get the URL link for the image.

3) Go to My Settings which is located up the top beneath the site banner as shown below:

2) It should bring you to a page that says ‘User Settings’, look down to where it has a Sub-heading that says ‘User Settings’ as well. Click the ‘+’ sign as displayed below:

3) Look down to the title that says 'Signature:' Put the following code (the tags that look like this ‘<>’) as shown below, in the text box next to the title:

Then insert your URL link for you Banner that you got in Step 2, in between the quotations marks “” where it says ‘URL of Image here’ in the screencap above!

If you can’t see the image above, paste the URL link for your Banner into the quotations found below:

(img src="URL LINK HERE")

THEN change the ‘()’ brackets to these tags ‘<>’, located on either end

AND YOUR DONE!!!

Congratulations you have successfully uploaded an Avatar and Banner that you can start using in the Forum!

If you see someone else in the Forum that needs help with making or uploading and Avatar or Signature, PLEASE refer to this thread!

9/2/2007 6:58 AM

	NickJ4eva
9328 posts
youtube.com/NickJ4eva

Re: *TUTORIAL: How To Make/Upload An Avatar Or Signature*

far out the pictures didn't show up

IGNORE THIS BOARD!!!

6/14/2008 9:35 PM

	Madi
249 posts

Re: *TUTORIAL: How To Make/Upload An Avatar Or Signature*

ok i need a little help! lol i cant find the my settings button!! lol can any one help me? haha

6/14/2008 9:43 PM

	Madi
249 posts

Re: *TUTORIAL: How To Make/Upload An Avatar Or Signature*

Modified By Madi on 6/14/2008 8:50:05 PM)

ok i figured it out!!! lol dang but the date is wrong!!!! lol

6/14/2008 10:23 PM

	jonas:Dsister
313 posts

Re: *TUTORIAL: How To Make/Upload An Avatar Or Signature*

ok, what are: Paint, Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop CS and how do you get to them? does it have anything to do w/ the start bar thing in the corner of the computer screen? idk, plz help me!

Thx 4 the AMAZING siggy’s Molly! Thx 4 the AWESOME animations Ari!

7/10/2008 1:19 PM

	rememberthestars
310 posts

Re: *TUTORIAL: How To Make/Upload An Avatar Or Signature*

Modified By rememberthestars on 7/10/2008 12:20:10 PM)

okay offically hate trying to do this sig
okay my av works but my sig wont.
help!

check out my new fic: Together & Apart http://jonasbrothersfan.com/Community/Forum/tabid/265/forumid/62/threadid/775815/scope/posts/threadpage/1/Default.aspx

Thanks Laura!

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