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Avatars are here! Here's how to set them using steemit.com -or- the CLI
You may have noticed some people using avatars today. I believe @rossenpavlov was the first to post about it [here](https://steemit.com/steemit/@rossenpavlov/finally-an-avatar) but I wanted to post CLI instructions and figured there could be more grandma-proof visual aid for steemit.com instructions as well, simple as it may be. 

### I suggest you use a square image as it looks like images are getting stretched or pinched in the resizing, making them look goofy.

# On steemit.com

You can set your avatar using steemit.com by visiting any of your personal account pages (https://steemit.com/@youraccount), accessible via the circle icon in the upper right, and clicking the Settings tab, all the way on the right past the Wallet tab:

<center>![settings](http://i.imgur.com/U64MNHG.png)</center>

Host your image on a free image hoster such as steemimg.com or imgur.com, copy and paste the image URL into the field and hit the update button. You will be prompted to enter your **active** or **owner** keys, or your **master password**. 

In the future this page will have more options including different language support!

# Command line interface

If you're like me and are cautious about using your active authority key on the web, here's how you set an avatar using the cli_wallet. The avatar is stored in an account's JSON metadata, and can be set using the `update_account_meta` command. I want my metadata to look like this: ` {"profile":{"profile_image":"https://i.imgur.com/Onc31p4.png"}} ` but the internal quotation marks get in the way of the command syntax, so they need to be escaped using the `\` character like so:

`update_account_meta pfunk "{\"profile\":{\"profile_image\":\"https://i.imgur.com/Onc31p4.png\"}}" true`

Fill in your own account name and image URL for the avatar. The quotation marks surrounding the JSON should not be escaped. Be sure that you include any existing JSON metadata that your account is presently using so it's not removed.
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@birdie · 
Thanks for the heads up! :D
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@blueorgy · (edited)
Perfect timing! I just got SteemIMG back online so everyone feel free to host your avatars there, just posted the info <a href='https://steemit.com/steemimg/@blueorgy/steemimg-image-uploading-is-back-online-just-in-time-for-profile-pictures'>here</a>. As you can see I already have my avatar up ;)
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@pfunk · (edited)
Nice! Your link goes to this post here instead of your post.

@blueorgy's post: https://steemit.com/steemimg/@blueorgy/steemimg-image-uploading-is-back-online-just-in-time-for-profile-pictures
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@blueorgy · (edited)
Whoops! thanks! I rushed it seems haha, fixed my link as well.
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@skekzyz · 
Well that failed miserably for me, any tips or hints about what I may have done wrong? I put this URL (http://steemimg.com/image/WhzQT) into the profile picture URL box exactly as shown above and get what you see next to this post. I then tried putting http://steemimg.com/images/2016/11/10/SkekzyzAvatar01a195d.jpg into said box and nothing changed. 
When I put that url on it's own line you see what I get, am I missing a step somewhere here or on steemimg.com?
http://steemimg.com/images/2016/11/10/SkekzyzAvatar01a195d.jpg
Is it not public? Protected in some other way? or just not fully uploaded ready for public viewing?
Sorry, still basically a steem noob, haven't had much time to work with it since signing up.
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@blueorgy · (edited)
Interesting. Well you would use the direct link : 
http:// steemimg.com/images/2016/11/10/SkekzyzAvatar01a195d.jpg 
but for some reason steemit isn't picking it up, All files are public and if you navigate to the image url it shows up just fine. I am looking into this now
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@builderofcastles · 
Is there any guidelines on size to save on proc time and download?

Does precircularizing the image help out anything?
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@pfunk · 
The avatars are automatically resized to 48x48. For pixel art avatars you may wish to use a 48x48 source image, otherwise the resize should be fine. The Steemit image rehoster is constantly displaying resized images in the form of preview thumbnails on most posts.
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@ocrdu · (edited)
The original, default avatar shown below is 128x128 pixels with a transparent background. If you use it as a template and stay within the circle there is no circular cropping, just scaling. I used a square 128x128 canvas with a picture with a transparant background that fit in the circle.
https://steemit.com/assets/0ee064e31a180b13aca01418634567a1.png
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@cryptomental · 
GitHub hosting also works
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@dana-edwards · 
This is a good start. They should expand the functionality of avatars a little bit but this is good.
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@dexter-k · 
YEAHHHHH!!!! Also steemimg is not working. I can upload just fine but the image link seems to be broken for some reason...
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@hannahlicious · 
Woohoo! thanks for sharing, I managed to get mine set up :)
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@jlufer · 
Excellent post thank you very much for the information
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@levycore · 
great :D
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@liondani · 
Avatars will "colour" our steemit life again :)
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@merej99 · 
I cropped a photo to be about 300x300 px and it came out pretty well.  I have no idea what JSON metadata is or how to use it. LOL
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@noisy · 
"JSON metadata" is a technical thing, it is not important for most users, but sometimes really helpful for people which would like to know more and how things works.

In general, you have your steemit profile page here: https://steemit.com/@merej99
If you will change in this address `steemit` for `steemd`, then you can see how your profile looks from technical perspective:

https://steemd.com/@merej99

like here:
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/201263/20172010/98ddd3ac-a733-11e6-9483-f3fa1946608f.png
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@futurefood · 
This is for looking only, right?. atm reading into CLI Wallet but I get the feeling I need to know much more about code languages. I'm pretty much illiterate with code.. suggestions? I'm really up for some schooling :)
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@mokluc · 
Thanks for the post...done mine, just disappointed that the picture doesn't seem to be clear...thinking of trying another picture just to test.
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@pfunk · 
I suggest a square-cropped picture for this reason. The avatars get resized to 48x48 pixels so any small details will be lost.
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@mokluc · 
Thanks will try it.
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@mrosenquist · 
Oh yeah!  Avatars.
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@norbu · 
Aha, just got one up after reading a post by @ausbitbank!
This is a welcome change and I, for one, am happy we are focussing on the social aspect of things!
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@pfunk · 
Thanks, I didn't find that one in my search.  https://steemit.com/steemit/@ausbitbank/woot-we-have-profile-pictures-and-a-new-settings-screen-100-sp

I mostly wanted to make a post for the cli_wallet instructions but didn't see that post and didn't see any grandma-proof instructions with the visual aid at the time.
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@norbu · 
I guess it caught all of us unawares, but a welcome addition anyway!
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@omarrium · 
cool! Thanks for this! Looks much better with avatars :)
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@patriot-thoughts ·
$0.90
Is [steemimg.com](http://steemimg.com) still in beta or something? Seems I couldn't upload anything. I also got an error when trying to upload a avatar there. I sent them a message with all the error details.

Oh well, I just made an imgur account instead.

Should do the trick. Thanks for the hosting ideas.
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@pavelmenme · 
I have long wanted to put an avatar, but did not know how to put! Your blog helped me a lot! Thank you!
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@professorx · 
I just uploaded mine. I was thinking if there were articles about this, but figured it would be in the settings somewhere. Finally!
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@rossenpavlov · (edited)
Thanks for the mention!
I should also add that you can use transparent gifs, just make sure they look good on the blue background.
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@taoteh1221 · 
Awesome!
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@verbal-d · 
Thanks for the update @pfunk, much appreciated
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@vi1son · 
Something going wrong...
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@pfunk · 
I'd try rehosting the image and then updating the avatar URL again. I see it as working with a direct link [http://steemimg.com/images/2016/11/10/avatarc0f1b.png](http://steemimg.com/images/2016/11/10/avatarc0f1b.png) but maybe Steemit's image rehoster didn't pick it up and the placeholder is cached.
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@vi1son · 
I think too that it is cached. And i can't clear it...
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@winstonwolfe · 
Sweet! :D
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