For anyone who doesn’t know, Gravatar is the global avatar system used by a lot of bloggers, specifically supported by the latest WordPress. Essentially, it associates an avatar with an email address you use to comment, so you can have your avatar show when you comment on blogs!

Now, naturally its important to have an epic one and that’s where a service like Mad Avatar comes in – with the following simple steps you can setup your own custom Gravatar.

Step 1

Go to Mad Avatar and get started. The first step is to go into the avatar lab and start creating your avatar. It will let you choose a background image, write your own text and choose the colour and position of it, as shown below.

Step 2

Now that you have created your avatar you can click Submit, Mad Avatar will then give you both the image (if you wanted to save it) and a link where you can get the image. Copy this link (as shown below):

Step 3

Signup or login to your Gravatar account and choose to add a new image. Then tell it to use an image on the internet (as shown below) and put in the link Mad Avatar gave you. It’ll then fetch it for you.

Step 4

Now it’ll ask you to crop the image, however, Mad Avatar will already have given your the perfect sized 100×100 avatar – so drag the crop box to cover the entire image and click Crop and Resize. That’s it! You now have a Mad Gravatar!

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