There are many people at TORC (www.tolkienonline.com) who have payed for a Premier Membership and many of those have expressed an interest in learning how to upload a picture for their signature (also known as a sig pic). After numerous attempts at explaining through words how to go about uploading a sig pic there are still many who feel unable to do so still. For these people I have gone through the process and taken screen shots of each step. I will put them together here with an acompanying verbal explanation and I hope that those who read it will better understand how to go about uploading their very own sig pic for their TORC signature.
Near the top of every page on this message board is a menue bar that looks like the picture below. In order to change anything pertaining to your Premier Membership you must click on My Settings. I have circled the correct button in red.
The picture below shows what you should see as a Premier Member, the particulars shown here pertain to myself. You see the buttons marked Change Title and Change My Picture, these are used to add a custom title or signature picture for Premier Members. Below you see a picture of a dragon which is what I formerly had as a sig pic, if you do not currently have a sig pic then you will see no picture on your own Settings page and if you do have a picture you will see the one that is currently in your signature. In order to change or add a picture to your signature you must click the button that says Change My Picture, circled in red here.
You will next see a page with the information as shown in the next picture. In order to upload a picture to use in your own signature you must first have a picture, with a file size of 30Kb or less, and a file type of either JPEG (.jpg) or GIF (.gif) saved to either a disk or your hard drive. When you have this click the Browse button and a new window will pop up.
Below is a picture of the window that you will see. The red circle is to point out a useful feature, if you hit the button at the end of the text box you will get a scrolling menue that you can use to navigate your computer. Using this menu go to the place that you have saved the file that you wish to use in your signature. You can either double click on the file or click once to select it and click the button that says Open. This will close the window and put the name and directory of your file into the window next to the Browse button as shown above.
Once you have selected a file click on the Submit New Picture button that is shown in the red circle below.
Once you do that wait for the next page to load. You will see a window like the one in the picture below. Click the OK button and your settings page will then load with the picture that you have chosen as shown in the second picture above with the words Picture Waiting for Approval above it.
