So I noticed that a lot of people don't have avatars for their characters. Though it is not personally bothersome, It's nice to be able to put name with a face while we are going through and reading. If anyone would like to know how I personally do it, then read on. It really is very simple.
First off, you need a computer. It won't work from a phone. Simply save the picture you would like to use to your desktop. It may be very large, that's alright. If you only want to use a section of the picture, it's still the same thing.
Then open your photo with paint, and using the select tool drag out a square for whatever part of the image you would like to use. In the bottom corner there is usually a set of numbers "***x***", that is where you are going to look. It does NOT have to be 100x100 at this point, It only matters that the numbers are the same.
After selecting the square you would like to use, save once more and then re-open the file in a photo editing software (most systems have a basic software) and simply re-size to 100x100 avatar and upload. Voila!
If you do not have photo editing software on your computer you can upload your square to this site
http://www.shrinkpictures.com/and re-size it there. Just remember when you open up your new avatar in a new window you will have to save it to your desktop and then upload it. I know you would have to do so anyway for an avi pic, but if you wanted to re-size any other photo's and use the url provided it expires after a couple of hours.
A simply way to upload your newly re-sized pic to the web is to open an email to yourself and attach the photo. When you open the photo after receiving your email it will now have a permanent url.
I hope this helped! And I look forward to RPing with all of you again :)