Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:24 pm
While I'm not a Mac user, I might be able to help. What size does your avatar need to be? Different sites have different requirements. For example, the Fred Miranda forums require an image no larger than 60 x 60 pixels. Flickr, another photo forum site, calls avatars "buddy icons" and limits them to 48 x 48 pixels.
The trick is to find out what the site where you want to post the avatar wants.
Then choose an image from your photos that you can crop a square from, and which will look okay reduced down that far. Keep in mind that anything that small is not likely to show a whole lot of detail very well. The simpler the better.
You save the cropped image to your hard drive, then find the avatar uploading page in the site where you want it. Generally, the host site will ask what file on your hard drive you want to use, you paste in the file name and that's it.
Good luck.