Sunday, December 7, 2008

Playfish: Avatar/Signature Tips

As I posted on the Playfish forum: http://forum.playfish.com/showthread.php?t=8540

To create an avatar or a signature of your pet for the forum you need to take a screen shot!

To do this on a Windows machine, you should just be able to hit the 'Prt Sc' button near the top right of your keyboard (some computers may require you to hit Shift+Prt Sc, Ctrl+Prt Sc, Alt+Prt Sc or Fn+Prt Sc).

(For Mac users: http://www.intermedia.net/support/kb/default.asp?id=923 )

You can then open an image program (such as Paint or Photoshop) and press CTRL+V to paste the image (alternatively click 'Edit', 'Paste'). Then you need to crop/reseize your image so it fits in the required pixel sizes for this forum. And save your image so that the filesize also fits within the requirements (just a tip, saving as a '.gif' generally gives a reasonably small file size).

For an avatar (the picture under your name) on this forum:
Quote:
The maximum size of your custom image is 80 by 80 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller).
For a signature (below your post) on this forum:
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The maximum size of your custom image is 500 by 100 pixels or 9.8 KB (whichever is smaller).
Then, if you are doing a avatar go to: http://forum.playfish.com/profile.php?do=editavatar
And use:
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Option 2 - Upload Image From Your Computer
Click 'Browse' then find where you saved the file, select that and click 'Save Changes'.

If you are doing a signature go to: http://forum.playfish.com/profile.php?do=editsignature
And use:
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Option 2 - Upload Image From Your Computer
Click 'Browse' then find where you saved the file, select that and click 'Upload'.
Enter the following text in the 'Your Signature' box above:
Code:
[sigpic][/sigpic]
Then scroll to the bottom and click 'Save Changes'.

(The hardest part is getting your image to fit the size requirements of the forum!)

NEW!

If you want to make your signature clickable, here is the code:
Code:
[url=http://addresswhereyouwantittogo.com/][sigpic][/sigpic][/url]
To have a look at how your signature will appear before you save it (to ensure you are happy with it), scroll to the bottom of the signature page and click the button labelled 'Preview Signature'. This way you can see what your signature will look like, and do not need to make a thread to test this!

Please note that when you update your signature, your signature will automatically update for all of your past posts that included a signature! And when you update your avatar it will update for all of your previous posts (whether you had an avatar of not when posting them).

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