Garin1, if you want a picture in your profile, here's some info on how to do that. This is copied from another post. Near the bottom it addresses putting a picture in your signature. Please keep in mind MOC guidelines now say no more than 640x480 and try to keep it under 60k in filesize. If you need help with that part, click the envelope icon above and send me your email address and I'll send you mine so you can send me the picture. I'll then resize it for you.
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First you have to have the photo out on the internet somewhere, not on your personal pc. If you don't have a place to put a picture, I'd recommend
www.tinypic.com . You can place pictures there for free. The picture cannot be more than 250k in size or they will automatically trim it down.
At tinypic, use the Browse button to find the picture on your pc. Then click the 'Host It' button. When the page comes back, scroll down and you'll see several boxes with urls in them. For posting here, click in the box for the one with the IMG tags on each end. Those tags are important for displaying a picture here.
After clicking in that box the url should be highlighted. Hold the ctrl key and press the 'c' key to copy the url. Sorry if too elementary, it's hard to tell level of knowledge from a post.
Then in your post, just paste (ctrl v) the url in your post. You can then click the Preview Reply button if you want to see what your post will look like before you submit it. When done, close the preview window and click the Submit Reply button.
MOC guidelines say the picture should be no more than 640x480 in physical size and 60k in filesize. You can tell the size by rightclicking and selecting properties (works that way on mine, anyhow). If you need to resize the picture and don't have software to do that, Irfanview is free at
www.irfanview.com . This is what I usually use. After resizing I also do File/Save AS (rather than file/save or the save button). There I can tell it to save at 50% quality. . That significantly reduces the size of the file itself so it will load faster for those on a slow connection (much appreciated if you'd do this).
It's a lot easier than it sounds.
If you want the picture to be part of your signature, go to your profile and paste that same url, with img tags, in the signature box.
Good luck. Post back if you have any problems with it. One of us will be along to help.
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