Resize Images and Create Avatars for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

It's Simple to Resize Pics to Avatar Size

It is simple to make an Avatar for your forum, face book, twitter or other account, in case you know where to find the tools. This editorial won't take long to read & one times you are completed you will know where to find free & straightforward to make use of program that will help you make your own avatars (free, fast, & straightforward).

The purpose of an avatar is to help identify the user, & while the avatar is usually a very distinct representation of the interfacing user it can be representative of very anything. Very often the avatar depicts a persons physical appearance, of their interests or is in tone with the forum theme.

& no they are not speaking about blue0 foot tall inhabitants of another planet. For our purposes an avatar is a little graphical representation of a user. In most forums or social groups you will find that active participants have a little graphic or picture images or icons next to, above, or below their names.

Select your avatar with some thought, in case you plan to be at all active in the forum or social group; it will soon become your online picture or "Brand" within that group.

The primary reason you cannot basically upload any picture or picture as an avatar is that they are large & exceed the forum or sites settings. Site owners that permit avatar uploads to there sites do this so that the pages of posts will load more basically. If the pages take long to load, viewers tend t get their information elsewhere'

You can turn very any picture editing program in to & avatar maker by following a few simple steps:

1- Search the site you need to upload the avatar to & discover the allowable size of the avatar (pixel width & height ).

2- Select a picture or graphic that you need to make use of for your avatar, move it or locate it to a file or on your desktop or somewhere it will be simple for you to find.

3- Open the picture in a picture editor or picture re-sizer.

4- Follow the directions for reducing the picture size & save as a new item, but with a different name. * Note -if you save the file using the same name you run the risk of overwriting the original picture & losing the original format forever. Therefore if it is important to save a replica of the original intact save the item with the "save as" function using a different name.

5- Next login in to the site you need to upload the avatar to & follow their instructions.

Some Common sites have the following guidelines for avatar sizes:

It is that simple to resize pics to be used as avatars for your favourite sites & forums.

Twitter Avatar - 73 pixels x 73 pixels

Facebook Avatar - 200 pixels x 200 pixels

Google Profile - 96 pixels x 96 pixels

LinkedIn Avatar - 80 pixels x 80 pixels

Digg - 120 pixels x 120 pixels

As if that is not simple there's several free online
& downloadable program programs available. To receive a list of popular free picture & avatar creator program: squidoo.com/Shrink_A_Picture