deviantART's new avatar system

As recently announced in kemayo's journals, deviantART has recently changed a few things in the way you can set your own (or a group's) icon. The most important change is that it now does not need to be any specific size anymore. dA used to only accept pictures of exactly 50x50 (or 100x50 for groups), now it accepts pictures of any size; it will auto-resize it to the right one. For more information please see kemayo's journals about the resizing option and the pop-up window.

Now how do I edit my other settings?

Many of us, myself included, used to click on our own avatar to go to our settings page, to change our signature for example. This doesn't work anymore because it now opens a pop-up window to change your icon, like it does (and always did) for groups.

However there's another very simple way to go to your settings page. Simply mouse over your username at the top bar of each page, and in the drop down menu you will find the option “Settings” This will take you to your 'personal' settings. It then only takes a click on 'identity' (to the left, under “Public”) to change your signature etc. See picture below.




_{I hope this will be helpful and clear some of the confusion that I've seen around. If you have any feedback towards the change itself, please direct it towards the journal rather than this article, since I'm not a dA admin. I do not mean to take any credit for this development, all credits go to kemayo and the rest of the deviantART staff. I only decided to write this article about it, with permission from kemayo, to let more people know about this change - I know many people have been waiting for it for a long time - and a solution to a problem it seems to cause for some.}


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