Heads

Hey, nice head shot.  Do you hope to have one for everybody?

Posted by Rolly on 8 replies

Comments:

01. Apr 10, 2005 at 06:54pm by Anthony:

Thanks  ( :

Yeah, I do.  All you have to do is get a digital photo of yourself onto your computer, and crop it around the head.  It doesn’t matter what size the cropped area is, as long as it’s square, not rectangular.  Then just go to gravatar.com, create an account, and upload the image (all of which is completely free).  Then whenever you post on a gravatar-enabled website (like this one), it will display your gravatar if you enter your email address.

Or if anyone here wants one, you can just email me the photo and I’ll send you back the cropped-head version.  In particular, if you JUST do a crop, you won’t get the transparent background like I have on my avatar.  That takes a little bit of experience with photo editing.

So... Rolly beat me to the punch, but I did want to post about this new feature and say how cool I think it is.  For one thing, the idea of an avatar that is consistent across the internet is really cool.  But the best part is that having your photo (though of course it can actually be a photo of whatever you want) next to your writings helps make a website a lot more personal and "real life"-like.

As long as the floating heads don’t scare people off, that is.

02. Apr 11, 2005 at 11:41am by Rolly:

Can I keep the yellow head and red hat as my own, or is that your generic?  I like it!

03. Apr 11, 2005 at 11:42am by Rolly:

Nevermind. I just realized it’s the generic.

04. Apr 11, 2005 at 08:55pm by mom:

oh heck, I wish I had time to play with you kids.  I want a new face and can it be a bobble-head?  This IS tax week and you know I always wait till crunch time to do this.  So, as soon as 4/15/05 midnight passes I’ll have time to get my own new face to show up here :)

Still lvu,

05. Apr 17, 2005 at 12:48am by Patrick Copland:

Just a test to see if my gravatar is working yet.

06. Apr 17, 2005 at 12:49am by Patrick Copland:

Testing with the correct e-mail now.

07. Apr 18, 2005 at 08:12am by Anthony:

There we go  : )

08. Apr 18, 2005 at 11:20pm by Patrick Copland:

I will work on cropping later, or select a new photo.

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