The More You Know: 3 Easy steps to new avatar art!

by Meg on June 12, 2009

Hey! Did you know that you can EASILY make your very own avatar (what’s an avatar!?) by grabbing one of the images from the Top 4 stories above? Here’s how!

1. Whenever you see a Top 4 image you like, simply right-click on it
2. Save the image to your desktop
3. Update your image in your account! (Don’t have an Account? Get one)

{ 47 comments }

1 sas 06.12.09 at 12:36 pm

What, no thumb of little-kitteh big foote?
I keed! :P

2 Camille 06.12.09 at 12:46 pm

My puppeh would be very insulted if I put some stranger up as my avatar. But for the sadly petless among us, this is good idea!

3 brinnann 06.12.09 at 12:47 pm

Gravatar doesn’t like me. :( It won’t load on my computer.

4 mamarosa 06.12.09 at 12:50 pm

Where is Stains?
I want Stains!!!

5 mamarosa 06.12.09 at 12:52 pm

What is a Top 4 image?

[See those four images at the top? That's them. - Ed.]

6 Theresa 06.12.09 at 12:54 pm

Oh little birdie,
That gigantic nutlike thing
Won’t fit in your beak.

7 Fabian 06.12.09 at 1:08 pm

Very nice! But I see only _one_ hamster! :)
Good idea. Maybe we´ll create some gravatars of our hamsters, too…

8 mmmcrisp 06.12.09 at 1:15 pm

testing out my avatar…la la LA la LA (singsong voice)

9 pyrit 06.12.09 at 1:15 pm

Heh heh, all day I’ve been palpably delighted by those jaunty pups careening o’er the fence.
Was it a post once? Pray tell.

Which reminds me. Sometimes, when I click on the CO sugar cookie, my computer careens over to WordPress…

Ah well. Now back to your regularly avatarred program….

10 mmmcrisp 06.12.09 at 1:16 pm

oops, that’s the old one…sigh

11 AlbertaGirl 06.12.09 at 1:22 pm

I demand witty and original hovertext for each of those thumbnails!!! ;)

12 eastiegirl 06.12.09 at 1:35 pm

Okay…trying this out…

13 silalumenn 06.12.09 at 1:43 pm

Awesome!

14 5^^now8ing 06.12.09 at 2:01 pm

Re: planetary maintenance floating pups — howEVER did I miss that great post! Just want to say all the commenters were wrong, though — the dogs were clearly channelling Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, clearing the barbed wire on his motorcycle in the Alps.

15 5^^now8ing 06.12.09 at 2:19 pm

Umm … dumber than dumb question: How do I know whether I have an account to add an avatar to? (shrinking in embarassment) Last time I tried to add an avatar, WordPress (I think it was WordPress) wouldn’t let me create one with my 5^^now*ing, and that’s *who* I am!

16 chicky82 06.12.09 at 2:28 pm

drama cat is so cool!!

17 5^^now8ing 06.12.09 at 3:39 pm

Alas, I tried again, and my gravitar name can’t have my kitty ears — wah! Make them change it! I have a great pic of all 5 cats. (Do you have any idea how hard it is to get 5 cats to pose together?!)

18 Theresa 06.12.09 at 4:04 pm

BING BING BING SNOW LEOPARD ALERT!!!
http://www.centralparkzoo.com/look-and-learn/headlines/big-cats-big-city.aspx

A new snow leopard exhibit in the Central Park Zoo– Check out beautiful Zoe and Chocolate, soon to be joined by Bo!!

19 berthaservant 06.12.09 at 4:43 pm

I suppose it’d be asking waaaaaayyyyy too moische to ask for super clever hovertext on every single sample avatar pic…..

20 Cambridge Rat Mom 06.12.09 at 5:31 pm

I saw hamsters, but I didn’t see any rats. ;-(

21 ksully 06.12.09 at 7:41 pm

So my gravatar will show up now? Cool!

22 Theo 06.12.09 at 10:03 pm

KSully — I think you have to go into your WordPress account and enable your Gravatar, somehow. Haven’t tried it, myself.

23 walkinge 06.13.09 at 12:36 am

Hmmm, let’s see if this avatar thing works…

24 Walkinge 06.13.09 at 12:38 am

Testing the avatar

25 tamsindonner 06.13.09 at 5:41 am

this is really me, WANNADANCE. tamsin donner was my great great grandma, so *watch out*!

lemme see if this works…

26 tamsindonner 06.13.09 at 5:44 am

hmmmmm. can’t really see my avatar. too bad, it’s a good one…

anybody know what to do???

27 wannadance 06.13.09 at 5:50 am

aha, changed back to ‘wannadance’, still cannot see avatar. can anyone see it?

28 Theo 06.13.09 at 7:52 am

I see it fine, WD. “Stayin Alive” in what looks like crayon. It borders legibility, though, ’cause it’s so small; I can’t tell what’s in the speech bubble at all.

29 Theo 06.13.09 at 7:54 am

[doubletake!]
Wannadance, was your great-great-grandma a party girl?

30 fiaspice 06.13.09 at 10:13 am

Let’s see if my new avatar works

31 fiaspice 06.13.09 at 10:14 am

testing2

32 Lerrinus 06.13.09 at 10:32 am

Gravatar test!

33 Lerrinus 06.13.09 at 10:35 am

Still the old one!?

34 baileysgrandmom 06.13.09 at 11:17 am

OK, one more avatar test–no fair, I wanted the flying doggies first!

35 baileysgrandmom 06.13.09 at 11:18 am

Whoo-hoo! It actually worked! Thanks, CO (or whomover thought up this fun thing)

36 snorglepup 06.13.09 at 12:58 pm

OK. I’ll try. I still don’t have a face on my facebook!

37 wannadance 06.13.09 at 3:48 pm

theo, i don’t know if she was a party girl, unless you mean donner party. yes. that makes her a man eater….

ponders: could it be inherited???

gnaw, gnaw….

can you tell that it’s a wheelchair with a little guy having fallen out? on my avatar? it shows up on other sites, but not here. it says ‘just tryin’ to stay alive’ inside the bubble (i think). was made by a genuine child.

38 M 06.13.09 at 5:57 pm

testing – i set up an account, does it just communicate automatically? let’s find out.

39 M 06.13.09 at 5:58 pm

i am as delighted as my icon would indicate. my paws are up and everything. :)

40 booboodabad 06.13.09 at 8:06 pm

I used my picture of Boo Boo da Bad in Da Baby Bonnet of Doom-mwahaha!

Now he sez all of the other boycats all over da world are laffing at heem!

41 puddlepeppers 06.13.09 at 9:30 pm

@Theresa…Thanks for the snow leopard news…Let’s hear it for the Species
Survival Program at the zoo…sounds like the Silk Road as the place these
leopards come from.

42 puddlepeppers 06.13.09 at 9:39 pm

@mmmcrisp…I love the avatar you had before…(black, purple,orange)

43 Lerrinus 06.14.09 at 6:37 am

Got it! :-D

44 5^^now8ing 06.14.09 at 9:08 am

OMG! OMG! My gravatar works with my name, after all! Of course, I see now that my “great” pic of all 5 cats doesn’t work well for an avatar — will have to try again — but at least now I can. SOOOOOO happy!!!

45 pyrit 06.14.09 at 9:19 am

Avatars R go! (testing)

Confession moment: I really need to sloooow down. I just noticed under the Top 4 that one can click on the title underneath. So I clicked on “A Reminder From Planetary Maintenance”.
Now I kind of recall the post. Oy, I even commented on it.

46 Dave 06.14.09 at 9:38 am

cool

47 AZCatFan4Draco 06.17.09 at 12:06 pm

This is a test. This is only a test. No avatars were harmed in the making of this test. Thank you for your patience. hee hee hee.

:o )

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