I’ll start with a definition of what a Gravatar is.  A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name  on gravatar enabled sites.  The most popular place I’ve seen them used are on blogs and in comments.

Tinypic will now recognize yor Gravatar if you have one setup and show it when you share your account with others.   It’s a nice way to personalize your account, especially with your favorite theme.

A Gravatar on Tinypic

To setup your gravatar;

1) If you have a Tinypic account and a Gravatar, do nothing.  It just works.

Otherwise;

1) Sign up for a tinypic account,  - http://tinypic.com/join.php

2) Setup your Gravatar, - http://en.gravatar.com/

3) Enjoy some nice holiday cookies while everyone else enjoys your Tinypic album page! (Cookies are a recurring theme today)

Thanks to the folks at Gravatar for having such an easy service!

You can now create albums in your TinyPic account to organize your stuff! Of course you don’t have to organize your media. But sooner or later, you’ll find yourself scrolling through your account saying, “Darn it! Where are those flippin’ pictures?!” (Well, maybe you’ll be saying different things–wink, wink, nudge, nudge…) You’d never experience these moments of annoyance if you could find everything you wanted!

All the media you upload and the TinyFx you create are stored in Your Stuff page. Any media in Your Stuff can be added to albums. The most important thing to know about albums is that they are entirely separate (I’ll say it again: ENTIRELY SEPARATE) from your media. So, you can put media into an album, move it from one album to another, delete the album that the media is in, and at all times, you can still find that media item in Your Stuff page. Unless you specifically delete media, it remains in your account.

Items can only be in one album at a time. You can create an album from Your Albums or your Home page. After you create an album (or albums), you can move media into your album.

On Your Stuff page:

1. Click Organize to show the Organize bar and a checkbox on each image, video, and TinyFx.
2. Click the checkbox to select an item (you can select multiple items).
3. Select the album for the media using the Change Album… drop-down. Note you can also create a new album from the drop-down.
4. Click Update. A confirmation prompt displays.
5. Click OK. Your media is added to the album you selected. You can use these steps to move your media from one album to another, as well.
6. See Your Albums in the online help for more information.

THEN, you can share your album with your friends (unless your account is private–Check it out in your Settings), and people can subscribe to your album as an RSS feed! Note the RSS and URL code in the Tools section on the left, in the following image: