How to Customize Your Avatar on EFII
Some of the EFII community members have been asking about how to get your very own Avatar image. This, of course, is the image that shows up with any comments you leave here at EFII.
For example, here are the avatars of a handful of EFII members that you may have seen participating in the conversations:
If you’d like to customize your comments and express yourself a little more at EFII, it’s painfully simple by using a service called Gravatar.
Here’s how:
Just go to http://en.gravatar.com/signup and enter your e-mail address, then follow the instructions and you’ll be on your way!
The best part is, your Gravatar image is “global”, so it will also show up when you comment on many other blogs and forums online where you enter your email address. So if you’d like to personalize your experience here at EFII, take these quick and easy steps and you’ll be all set up.
(Note: It may take up to a couple of hours for the image to begin to show up after you upload.)
I invite you all to show off your new Gravatars by posting in the comments below. Have fun!
Did it work?
awesome!
Meeeow! Lookin’ sharp. I really enjoyed checking out the work in your portfolio as well. Very nice.
hey, thank you! :)
testing my global avatar saw yours (awesome looking “kitty”) and visited your site. Love your work!
Your avatar is doing a good job by grabbing all the attention! Grrrrrreat!
When I wrote this post, I realized that it was about time to update my own Gravatar, to bring it in line with the current branding on my Thomas James Illustration site.
Testing!
Test…
It may take a little time to take effect…
Seems to be working now?!
Yes!
Hi Thomas, yesterday when I commented in the ‘share your illustration’ section my avatar worked fine, but I posted a couple of comments today & the avatar didn’t seem to come up. I’m posting this partly to see whether it’ll work this time, partly to see if you have any idea why it might work sometimes & not others!
Thanks for all your help so far by the way…
here is my avatar…
yes!! here it is! heheeh
You make everything awesome and easy.
Thanks Thomas
Thanks for posting this series! It is so helpful to me at just the right time.
Here goes nothing…
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3.
Sweet, it worked. Enjoy my ugly mug everyone.
Ok lemme test this out…
Haha. How many ellipses can this comment section generate?
Well, let’s see…
Success!
testing, three, two, one…
Test for my Gravatar…. and….?
Testing testing…
Anyone see a dragon? <.<
Lookin’ sharp Gordon.
Cool Idea – I’m impatient so it may not show up yet – just created it.
Thank Ya Thank Ya for all this cool info!
I don’t know what happened to my last little post – hope it shows up this time.
Curious
does it work?
Looks good, Adriana!
testing… testing 1,2,3…. did it work?
testing again…
ok. let’s see if this worked
test?
test :|
testing…please work
test 1, 2, 3
Gravatar test
I had never heard of gravitar before! Sweet….
Now how do I submit art?!!?!
So let’s see if this worked.
hello?
Testing! Testing!
oooh how ya like me NOW?
Aggghhh – gravatar is driving me potty – every single name I try is already taken – Obviously I have a very common name but I’ve tried less common variations and I even tried some ridiculous made-up words that I call my dogs just to test it and STILL it said ‘this name is taken’. How on earth did you guys just get to put your normal names in????
……………….. as this is my first post – huge apologies that it’s a bit of a grumpy one – this is theeeee most fantastic site and I am finding it incredibly useful :)
Oooops – it was me being a twit – I’m sorted now :)
Cool!
gravatar is nice. this is mine. to know more about it or grab one of his brothers please visit my blog.
http://www.gugudada.org/blog/2011/10/monster-give-away-pick-yours/
i put my monsters under a creative commons license so anybody can use them for non commercial work.