This thread is two years old. I don't think anybody from the previous posters (except Lywon) check these forums anymore.
<- Avatar is that thing on the left
Signature (picture) is that thing down there V
Making an Avatar picture:Well, uhh... the easiest way to make an avatar is to:
1) Take a screenshot in the game (Press
Prt Scr key, it should be around the right upper corner of your keyboard).
2) The screenshot will be saved in your
C:/.../World of Warcraft/Screenshots/ folder. Go there.
3) Open the screenshot with Paint or Photoshop or whatever drawing program you have in your computer.
4) CopyPaste a 100x100 pixel sized part that includes whatever you want from the screenshot (character face or so) as a new picture and save it to your computer.
5) Upload the image to the net.
6) Add address to Profile -> Modify Profile -> Avatar URL
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Making a Signature picture:If you have Photoshop something and plenty of free time, you can edit screenshots and make a personal signature like the one I have.
If you don't, there's places to get your signatures made. The only one I remember right now is:
armory.mmo-champion.com/create_sig.php____________________
Uploading Avatar:Should be 100x100 or smaller. Preferably jpg, gif or png.
Go to Profile -> Modify Profile -> Avatar (URL)
There are some ready avatars there, though they kind of suck. We haven't had the time to make any WoW avatars there. If you want to use your own one, you need to add its address to the Avatar URL part (http://somethingoranother.com).
Your own Avatar needs to be somewhere on the net. If you only have it on your computer, you need to upload it somewhere. If you want to use a temporary host that
doesn't require registering you may want to use
imageshack. If you don't mind registering and want to upload more pictures that stay there, get yourself to
photobucket.
Upload the image, take it's address and add it to your Avatar URL.
Also remember to set the Avatar Width and Avatar Height to 100 or smaller, depending on the size of your Avatar.____________________
Using and Uploading Signature Image:Go to Profile -> Modify Profile -> Signature
400 characters max. Coding works the same way as tags normally do when posting on the forums. If you want to add a picture, you need to have it uploaded somewhere and use an IMG (image) code that goes .
[IMG] url-address [/IMG]
For example:
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v710/FlareHG/Banners/GrailBanner005.jpg[/IMG]