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How to Customize Your Avatar on EFII

October 30, 2009
by Thomas James

GravatarSome 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:

Blake Himsl HunterJessica AlvaradoScrapsGonzalexxSerkworksMichelle SchradDrew Kennickell

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!

42 Comments leave one →
  1. October 31, 2009 4:24 PM

    Did it work?

  2. October 31, 2009 7:46 PM

    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.

  3. November 5, 2009 11:54 AM

    Testing!

  4. November 5, 2009 2:25 PM

    Test…

    • November 5, 2009 3:23 PM

      It may take a little time to take effect…

      • katrionachapman permalink
        November 5, 2009 4:12 PM

        Seems to be working now?!

      • katrionachapman permalink
        November 5, 2009 4:13 PM

        Yes!

      • November 6, 2009 6:13 AM

        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…

  5. November 6, 2009 6:28 PM

    here is my avatar…

    • mercedeslagunas permalink
      November 6, 2009 6:29 PM

      yes!! here it is! heheeh

  6. November 7, 2009 2:19 PM

    You make everything awesome and easy.
    Thanks Thomas

  7. November 8, 2009 10:22 AM

    Thanks for posting this series! It is so helpful to me at just the right time.

  8. November 9, 2009 12:39 AM

    Here goes nothing…

  9. November 9, 2009 12:19 PM

    Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3.

  10. November 12, 2009 9:36 AM

    Ok lemme test this out…

    • n8br permalink
      November 12, 2009 9:37 AM

      Haha. How many ellipses can this comment section generate?

  11. November 20, 2009 6:57 AM

    Well, let’s see…

  12. December 5, 2009 7:09 AM

    testing, three, two, one…

  13. January 23, 2010 9:49 PM

    Test for my Gravatar…. and….?

  14. February 4, 2010 3:08 AM

    Testing testing…

  15. February 4, 2010 8:43 AM

    Anyone see a dragon? <.<

  16. February 7, 2010 3:45 PM

    Cool Idea – I’m impatient so it may not show up yet – just created it.
    Thank Ya Thank Ya for all this cool info!

  17. shell3hats permalink
    February 7, 2010 3:48 PM

    I don’t know what happened to my last little post – hope it shows up this time.
    Curious

  18. adrianacolourpiano permalink
    February 10, 2010 12:21 PM

    does it work?

  19. February 11, 2010 6:11 AM

    testing… testing 1,2,3…. did it work?

  20. March 3, 2010 12:29 PM

    testing again…

  21. March 31, 2010 9:33 AM

    ok. let’s see if this worked

  22. April 1, 2010 12:24 PM

    test?

  23. juancarlossolon permalink
    April 1, 2010 12:26 PM

    test :|

  24. April 6, 2010 3:56 AM

    testing…please work

  25. May 6, 2010 1:16 PM

    test 1, 2, 3

  26. June 9, 2010 9:32 PM

    Gravatar test

  27. darksealdotcom permalink
    June 13, 2010 10:39 PM

    I had never heard of gravitar before! Sweet….

    Now how do I submit art?!!?!

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