Forums are more fun when you have your in-game character as the forum avatar

[MacDeath]

But some of us might not know how to do that. I can only speak for the PC world. Here's the step-by-step way to do it on PCs.

First when launching the game, pause at the character selection screen. There you rotate your character in perfect safety to get the camera angle you want.

Step 2: Use a screen capture tool to take a pic (I use snip in windows). I set the snip box to grab just the amount of pic I want for my avatar.

Step 3: Save the pic to your PC. name it something like LadyMac.jpeg.

Step 4: On the forums, click on 'My Profile'. It's way up at the top. Yes, WAY up there.

Step 5: Click on 'Private Messages' (Yes, it does sound dumb but it's a quick way to get where you want to be.

Step 6: Scroll down a bit and over on the left side of the screen, under 'My Settings', click on 'Edit Avatar' (almost home now )

Step 7: Click 'Use Custom Avatar' and in Option Two, click 'choose file'. This opens the file dir on you PC.

Step 8: Browse for the file saved in step 3 above.

Step 9: Click on the icon for your file (You will see it's name get propagated in the file name window) and click on 'OPEN'.

Step 10: This takes you pack to the Edit Avatar screen where you see the file name has been propagated into the choose file window under option 2. Click on 'Save Changes' and you will see your Avatar pic at the top of the Edit Avatar screen. We're done!
Whew!

[NOTE] These steps work on Windows PCs. I'm sorry but I have no clue how to do such things on a console.

Can any Console people tell us how to do this for Xbox or PS3?

[AmnesiaHaze]

good idea, but on ps3 its not easy , maybe taking a photo of TV would work for the average user

[Spiltmilk]

Neato. Thanks Mac.

[Gomly]

But then everyone will know I play a female character......

Nobody can know.

[Pyth]

I heard that one Gomly guy plays a chick, but because I haven't seen his character, I can't say for sure.

[Gomly]

My secret shame is safe.

[Atticus Batman]

But then everyone will know I play a female character......

Nobody can know.

We ALL KNOW!

Real Gomly (Ok it's actually Emperor Palpatine!)

The Gomly he WISHES to be! (Ok it's some random girl gif!)

While I am atr it here is proof that cowardly lion from Oz is the SMART one!

[Gomly]

The Gomly he WISHES to be! (Ok it's some random girl gif!)

Hold on a second here.....

That's female?

[apocalypse77]

Just click "Settings" instead "My Profile"?

[A s0t]

well since there are only 6 characters in the game. can someone take picture of all 6 people? no changing your hair color does not make you a unique character.