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!

What’s in it for you? Well…you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that you’ve made those of us at TinyPic do a little dance of joy! :) And if THAT mental image doesn’t make you want to register for an account, what will? If your mental image needs help:

Hmm. There are a few more reasons that you might want to give registration a chance.

First, joining TinyPic is FREE!

Second, those photos and videos you upload? Now you can easily find them and do stuff with them. When you sign in, the images and videos you upload and the TinyFx you create are all stored in your account. So it doesn’t matter if you lose the links to your stuff. We keep track of it for you.

Third, you have editing options! You can add, edit, and delete tags for your images and videos. You can use FotoFlexer to fully edit your photos within TinyPic, including resizing, adding effects, beautifying, revising the color, etc., AND you can now delete your photos and videos! Woo hoo! You can fix it if you are a little too zippy with the mouse-click.

Registration is quick. On the TinyPic web site:

1. Click Join today for free! at the top left. The Join Us Today page displays.
2. Enter your e-mail address.
3. Enter a password.
4. Enter your birthday.
5. Enter the code that displays.
6. Select the box to agree to the TinyPic Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
7. Click Join Now>>. Your account is created!

Remember! Sign in before you upload images and videos or create TinyFx. If you don’t sign in, TinyPic doesn’t know it’s you, and the things you do aren’t saved in your account.