I open Word and then go to insert picture, then browse. I find a pic in my pictures folder and click on it. It usually opens pretty big in Word and then I just manually shrink it by alternating shrinking the top, bottom, and sides. Then I save it with a new name.

If the picture starts out *really* big, this won't work because it'll get too distorted, but this is how I've done all my avatars and I think they've worked ok.

I remember having trouble with the custom avatar feature too. It took me a while to figure it out and now I don't remember how I got it to work. [img]redface.gif[/img]

<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ April 24, 2006 12:23 AM: Message edited by: ColonialGirl ]</font>