Ged wrote:Heck Rick, Im 70. I have enough trouble working my TV.
So, Ive got a picture on my computer. How does it magically become a url?
![Yoyo :yoyo:](./images/smilies/yoyo.gif)
URL is this:
Usually called link or hyperlink (because of its function -- linking/connecting two websites)
However, other than uploading your picture from a URL, you can do it from your computer by choosing the third option called "upload avatar" (check the picture of mine in the first post I made here).
Now, I bet, the picture is larger than it should be and, well, therefore you need to resize it to 128x128 pixels with <30kb file size.
To do that you need to go to this site (
http://resizeimage.net/ ) and upload your image by clicking "upload your image" under the 1st point.
Then, at the 4th point, type 128 x 128
Ignore the rest and at the bottom of the page press "Resize image", download it and then upload it here on the forums in your profile > edit avatar tab.
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Bonus:
To make a picture M A G I C A L L Y become a URL you find yourself a picture hosting site such as imgur (
http://imgur.com/) or, what I used here, postimage (
https://postimage.io/) and upload it there. It then gives you the link (the URL) which you can then send/share with other people, etc.