How to Customize Your Avatar on EFII

2009 October 30
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!

31 Responses leave one →
  1. 2009 October 31

    Did it work?

  2. 2009 October 31

    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. 2009 November 5

    Testing!

  4. 2009 November 5

    Test…

    • 2009 November 5

      It may take a little time to take effect…

      • 2009 November 5
        katrionachapman permalink

        Seems to be working now?!

      • 2009 November 5
        katrionachapman permalink

        Yes!

      • 2009 November 6

        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. 2009 November 6

    here is my avatar…

    • 2009 November 6
      mercedeslagunas permalink

      yes!! here it is! heheeh

  6. 2009 November 7

    You make everything awesome and easy.
    Thanks Thomas

  7. 2009 November 8

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

  8. 2009 November 9

    Here goes nothing…

  9. 2009 November 9

    Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3.

  10. 2009 November 12

    Ok lemme test this out…

    • 2009 November 12
      n8br permalink

      Haha. How many ellipses can this comment section generate?

  11. 2009 November 20

    Well, let’s see…

  12. 2009 December 5

    testing, three, two, one…

  13. 2010 January 23

    Test for my Gravatar…. and….?

  14. 2010 February 4

    Testing testing…

  15. 2010 February 4

    Anyone see a dragon? <.<

  16. 2010 February 7

    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. 2010 February 7
    shell3hats permalink

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

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