Yaya, looks like you solved the problem and found it!

Here's the most colorful thing I could find in my photos - a cranberry pie

Okay, mine isn't very colorful, though. It's a picture from the deck at our family property last October. Best one I had on my computer at the moment.

Another advantage of using an avatar is to help visually note where a new post begins. Mine is a random picture I took of some flowers my husband bought me last year.

I've been on forums where the avatars are big and much prefer these small versions. Learning to identify posters by their avatars is problematic since people tend to change them frequently.

I fully support the avatars!

Sorry, not me-- the tiny avatars just provide one more thing to strain the eyes. I've already pulled way back due to eye strain from the format of the forum-- reading fewer and fewer posts.

You have a point, funkyart. They are so small as to be fairly useless. Most of them you can't even tell what is picuted in them. A little bigger couldn't hurt.

Oh, no, Funkyart!

In the spirit of making our community more colorful, I've changed my avatar from a Silver Sage dot to a red chinoiserie birdcage. This place needs color! Who was it that suggested we put a nice oriental rug on the floor? I second the motion.

Like funky and jelly, the teeny tiny gray font is very difficult for me to read. I've been complaining about the new laptop DH bought me for Christmas, but one huge advantage is the touch screen which will get bigger with a flick of my fingers. I've used it more on this website than I've used it in total since Christmas!

It helps identify you as a regular.

I wasn't going to use an avatar but you convinced me to, Walnut Creek. :-)

One of my cats - Eloise.

Skibby

I am happy. And green. So...

Ok, I'm in. I like this chair. It's very me.

Jellytoast....hehe. That was an easy decision, eh?

Haha ... not as easy as you'd think. Trying to find an image that would size correctly required a few tries. Agree that adding the avatars does much to break up the vast whiteness. I just hope they don't add an animation feature ... talk about headaches!

How do you add your avatar? I looked around but could not see what to do.

Go to Your Houzz (upper right corner). When your page comes up, click on the camera icon in the corner of the image area next to your username. You can upload a picture from your computer or from the internet.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm using a rug to make the room a little more comfy and colorful.

HA! mission accomplished....although it is small and hard to see that it is a stargazer lilly!

I have an avatar! It took some time to find an image that worked. And I can see myself spending too much time on this - but we have color! Mine is a protea.

Mine is a wild turkey that was standing outside our kitchen.

This was my first car. It's kinda fun to have these.

I'm in... our sweet dog.. even though she is white.. :)

sas95, mine is also a wild turkey outside my mother's kitchen, or at least the fraction of the turkey I managed to drag into the avatar.

Mines a year old when we were facing replacing our Sandy destroyed beach home.
We are now almost ready to pursue cert of occupancy but now working on furnishing it - after thats done, might be time to move on to a beachier pic

I tried.....but the picture did not show up. I am using my iPad. Does that make a difference?

Did mine right away here! It's obviously from inside the Fargodome, where my beloved NDSU-Bison were in a playoff-game this past December.

Faron

It's a jaundicey pic of me!

Bessie is my avatar. Anything is better than a gray shadow of a generic person in a white circle. It doesn't matter what the hell it is, but it helps differentiate posts.

You are all looking fantastic with avatar photos!

@grapefruit1_ar you should be able to do it from your iPad using the browser. Be sure to click Save when you are finished.

Mine is of our new rescue, Sammy!

Mom2 girls....I'll use our Maltese too!

If you're using a pc and want the font to appear larger (and the avatars too), press Ctrl and + at the same time to increase the size. To decrease, press Ctrl and - at the same time. It really does help. (But still too much white space.)

Mine is a hawk that tried to warm up in our backyard last year after it snowed. I know...way too trendy on the greige...

Thanks Andee, I'm on a PC and I had forgotten that trick to make everything a bit larger. It does help! But I agree, still too much white space; I rarely have headaches but I do lately, after spending lots of time here since Monday.

I like the avatars, but I'd be fine if they were just a wee bit larger.

But let's kill the white first...!

Anitamo...they look so much alike! Ours is Maltese/Shih Tzu mix... such a great dog! Enjoy your pup!

Nuts.....still did not work. The message said that the pic had to be at least 1000 pixels wide?

grapefruit1_ar, the pic you use for the broad band across the top of your profile page has to be at least 1000 pixels wide (I just picked one of the backgrounds they offered, since I didn't have a handy pic stored that was quite wide enough.)

But, that is a different picture from your avatar. Mouse over the gray silhouette figure, until you see a camera icon. Click that, and it will allow you to upload a picture for your avatar, to show up in the threads. That picture, for your avatar, doesn't have to be 1000 pixels wide.

Hope this helps, hang in there!

Pugga, that is what we do best!

I didn't have to chose an avatar because my Houzz photo moved with me.

Mine is my best friend - an eskimo dog named Snowy. It was hard to sneak up on him and get a picture while he was asleep because usually he'll wake up before I can do it.

I did it! That is Tootsie, not me!

OK, I'm having a little fun today. God Save the Queen! Saw this photo a couple of weeks ago and saved it for some reason because I do love the Queen. I'll use it until I find another, better one.

The circle over the square on the far left hand side is where to click in order to add/change your avatar. "Change Cover Photo" is for the background on Your Houzz.

All of these avatars are looking great. I love them all.

Thanks everyone. I finally got an avatar....and it is upside down!! How did that happen??? I am pathetic!

Did you do this from an iPhone. Ask because I remember on the old Gardenweb, photos posted from iPhones were always upside down or sideways. And congrats on getting an avatar on here.

Thank you, Walnut Creek. I am on an iPad. I have never had that happen before!