A (Avatar)picture says more than a thousand words... on Lomography

A (Avatar)picture says more than a thousand words...
written by recurving on January 23rd, 2009 , 121 comments (0 votes)

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relaunch and photos

When viewing the comments in the magazine you always had to read out a name to see who had what to say. We are Lomographers after all, and we notice a picture before we can read out a name.

That’s why we have included the avatar function in each of your accounts allowing you to upload a small profile picture showing next to your name in the comments. Want to test it? When you are logged in click edit your account and upload a picture. Why don’t you leave a comment in this post as well, as on Monday we will award the best avatar image displayed in a comment to this blog post.

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121 comments

by recurving
10 months ago
Well, I am not allowed to enter the competiton anyway, but here's mine...
by mephisto19
10 months ago
i have one, too now
by aldo_mariano
10 months ago
Hihi cool ^_^
by dogma
10 months ago
yeeeeeeeeeeeeee i new this will come :D
by agrimony
10 months ago
cool!
by oldskool_rider
10 months ago
woop woop, this is cool, im so happy you have added this!
by liquidpapercut
10 months ago
Right on!
by stouf
10 months ago
Love it !!!
by ndroo
10 months ago
Yay!!!
by oldskool_rider
10 months ago
hehe, oops, im not used to beta and the fact that you have to save after editing your profile.

:)
by snoop
10 months ago
yipee! finally!
by mandi
10 months ago
another one from my series in progress "my 1000 ugliest self-portraits"
alhtough this oine is not that ugly
by mattcharnock
10 months ago
great great great
by miriel
10 months ago
:)
by xbalboax
10 months ago
im getting an error message when i try to upload my photo it takes me to a were sorry but something went wrong page
by tawan
10 months ago
@xbalboax

we will check that
by mephisto19
10 months ago
oh ja... that is fun
by d_i_hunter
10 months ago
'profile' ; )
by sonjabean
10 months ago
Cool new feature, guys. Good job!
by fabyen
10 months ago
yes good idea ;-)
by somapic
10 months ago
@ recurving - wake up and smell the coffee :-)

<---ich bin das kleine ich bin ich und wer bist du?

nice to see everyones face
by lomodirk
10 months ago
Hahaha, funny, but I`ll think I`ll switch too often ;)
by mephisto19
10 months ago
now it is more colorful here left side..... but sometimes i cannot read the complete name....
by mantozauras
10 months ago
(:
by yoscolmi
10 months ago
i'm ugly!
by chaweemek
10 months ago
yippiee
by pan_dre
10 months ago
juhu :)
by lolfox
10 months ago
Afternoon folks....

any idea if it will be possible to move pictures from albums to albums or add pics to already existing albums...... it driving me mad
by breakphreak
10 months ago
you say what? :)
by breakphreak
10 months ago
nice job! aaaah, I wanna have two or three (or more) and change them according to my mood :P
by u-t-e
10 months ago
lolfox: Just mark both albums and that click on "selection".

It's funny to see the faces that belong to the names and to the comments and the homes, of course. I like that but I will have to get used to it...
by spendospend
10 months ago
haha good times :)
by xbalboax
10 months ago
cool it works now, thanks. cool feature just wish you could adjust/crop/scale them, like if you could select the part of the pic you want to use
by u-t-e
10 months ago
Hmm, my avatar's format is actually vertical. Will it only be possible to have avatars with the landscape format?
by dirklancer
10 months ago
sweet.
by marguegue
10 months ago
ahhh... c'est pratique! comme çà tu vois qui c'est... chouette.
by anarchy
10 months ago
I'm in!!!
by u-t-e
10 months ago
Oh Marguegue! That hat looks fabulous!!
by icuresick
10 months ago
nice avatars guys!
by recurving
10 months ago
@u-t-e: All kind of formats will be supported - right now they work in photos already: see your shot here: http://beta.lomograp(…)otos/135863

There will be a lot of changes of the next days here!
by grenoouille
10 months ago
sounds good....
by wil6ka
10 months ago
i want to keep my world tidy...
by ndroo
10 months ago
The user id/nick & the 'said X minutes ago' text seems to be screwed up for some of the replies. They appear on the right side of the avatar instead of below it. Is it my PC or it is really messed up?
by alexandrak
10 months ago
these are too fun!
by maxpinckers
10 months ago
voila! :D

http://beta.lomograp(…)mages/36242
by anelfandhiszippo
10 months ago
A last =) =) =) =) =) =)
by strangelilgirl
10 months ago
man beta is really getting exciting lately!
by u-t-e
10 months ago
@recurving: Yeah thanks! I just saw it when I was looking through/commenting on some shots.
by _lilas_
10 months ago
testing mine,
and spread sunflower=)
by callumbum
10 months ago
this is fricking awesome, i had no idea how exciting this blog would be.
by xbalboax
10 months ago
seriously this is soo cool! now were def one big happy lomo family
by babo
10 months ago
Great work... we needed this feature for a while now!!
by jimpanic
10 months ago
Duuuude. I probably can’t participate the competition either. Bummer.
by lolfox
10 months ago
Thanks for the advice u-t-e
by myloveletter
10 months ago
hats off to avatars...
by champi
10 months ago
And here is mine... Gangsta haha!!
by makeyuu
10 months ago
good. thing.
by vicuna
10 months ago
That's sooooo cool!!! Here's mine!! :)))
by kokakoo
10 months ago
,-)
by mizzfonky
10 months ago
peek-a-boo ! I love avatars too !
by cinzinc
10 months ago
check check 1 2 1 2
by daredeye
10 months ago
grrrrrreat!!
luv it.
by graefin
10 months ago
Ahhh it doesn't work!!!
by graefin
10 months ago
*test*
by graefin
10 months ago
haha!!!! great! Buit I still can't decide which picture I want to show
by kino-eye
10 months ago
"I" is another...
by lomosexual_manboy
10 months ago
Good idea.
by marcela_cuartas
10 months ago
Yuuuujuuuu qué divertido! n_n

and... Markus will be yawning until....?
by xpunklovex
10 months ago
Great !!!!
by superlighter
10 months ago
shabadabadaaan!!!
by vstephanie
10 months ago
yuhuuuuu
by fuzztone04
10 months ago
best idea
by kylewis
10 months ago
I'm testing but keep getting an error message!
by kylewis
10 months ago
Then again, maybe the error is an error?!
by vicuna
10 months ago
ha ha, Aurelio your avatar is so funny!!!
by kylethefrench
10 months ago
what up avatar
by deff1
10 months ago
Avatars rule, fantastic addtion to the Site!
by superlighter
10 months ago
thank you Stéphane! :)) I'm glad you like it! your avatar is so....mysterious!
by plesaleza
10 months ago
can't wait to see what other ideas you guys come up with!
by maxpinckers
10 months ago
breakphreak your avatar is great :)
by magicbus
10 months ago
found it.
by mattdude1081
10 months ago
fantastic!
by milkie
10 months ago
Test
by eleonore
10 months ago
:))))
by annegreat
10 months ago
That's a very cool gadget!
by ananditya
10 months ago
yay! finally!
by kkelseyy
10 months ago
yaaay!
by day3hugger
10 months ago
cool!
by ripsta
10 months ago
hai everbody...
by kirri-joy
10 months ago
Me!
by syafeeq
10 months ago
:D
by gimmedanegatives
10 months ago
Ah! I've always thought this was necessary! This is an old self-portrait from six years ago, though I don't look much older, sadly.
by saviorjosh
10 months ago
very nice new feature!
i love beta more and more!
by sugiyamasatomi
10 months ago
Woohoo!
by graefin
10 months ago
ups, in photos the avatars have their original dimension...so mine is too long :-p
by mstrlss
10 months ago
Great new feature :)
by stoonja
10 months ago
Really fun to see all those lomofaces !!!!
by azurblue
10 months ago
I've found it !!!
by mephisto19
10 months ago
is ther a chance to enlarge the avartar???
by gemma81de
10 months ago
I'm not so much into self portraits but at least this is a recent one ;)
by misskhali
10 months ago
What a great feature! Here is mine... I'm a Karotte among carrots...
by kuasimudo
10 months ago
done! xD
by atari_fear
10 months ago
me!
hahaha~
great feature!
by ukaaa
10 months ago
Nice, this was needed :)
by fuzk23
10 months ago
Cool! Now we can see how each other looks like. Erm. Sort of. Lol. =D
by recurving
10 months ago
wow, thanks for all the comments so far - and nice to see all your faces...
it's going to be tough to pick a winner on monday
by bambi_kramer
10 months ago
<-----------------------------------
by fab
10 months ago
Test!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by drudolph
10 months ago
This is awesome. This site keeps getting better and better!
by johann_affendy
10 months ago
introducing.. my avatar!
by northwardnimbus
10 months ago
i got something in my eye
by iamwen
10 months ago
wow! this feature is so cool!! love it!
by tveden
10 months ago
Count me in
by katykate
10 months ago
great, great, great - love this!
by torium
10 months ago
:---)
by nimbostratus
10 months ago
what a great ideia! :)
by brunomiguel
10 months ago
HeY!! :]
by jrjw
10 months ago
better late than never, eh?
by tizi
10 months ago
cool!
by tizi
10 months ago
look at me, i don't have one!
by gyllzd
9 months ago
i'm a bit late to the party, but hoorah!

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