BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / need help loading a new profile avatar

**Posted by ancientsgate** June 30, 2016 1:43 pm

Sorry, there's probably already a thread for this, but I don't have the patience to go through 6 pages of old stuff looking. I want to use a new image for my forum profile, but I don't know how to get the photo I want out of my attachment file and into my ID. I see what I have to do, but the system requires a jpeg with a web address, so.... is there some way I can do this? I see that it won't allow me to copy and paste. If not, that's okay, but I thought I'd ask. TIA for any advice!

**Posted by SusiGo** June 30, 2016 2:49 pm

I think the trick is that you have to upload the pic of your choice to a site like photobucket. There you will get several choices of sharing it, and there will be a URL as well.

**Posted by ancientsgate** June 30, 2016 9:42 pm

SusiGo wrote:
I think the trick is that you have to upload the pic of your choice to a site like photobucket. There you will get several choices of sharing it, and there will be a URL as well.

Ah! thank you Susi, that sounds perfectly doable. thanks so much.

**Posted by ukaunz** June 30, 2016 9:43 pm

I used postimg.org which an easy site to use. Come back and ask if you need more help

**Posted by ancientsgate** June 30, 2016 9:55 pm

ukaunz wrote:
I used postimg.org which an easy site to use. Come back and ask if you need more help

Great, thanks for the idea! And the offer to help.