Where can I find good avatars?

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I've been searching in google images but I can't find anything that I want in the right format.

I made mine in paint.Its not very good but it fitted in the right format easily.maybe you can do it better than me.

Flickr, there's a whole load of really good pictures on there. Have you got "snipping tool" on your computer? If so use that to save some of the pictures, because the photographers don't always allow saving. So you can just make a box over the picture using snipping tool and save the capture.

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It depends on what you like, stuff your into.

Mostly video games and movies or shows.

A better way to do is to hunt around the source code to find where the original image is stored on Flickr's servers. I did this all the time when I got pics for school presentations and the like.

How do you do that?

Easy peasily... Wait, does that even make sense?

Anyway, let's use this as an example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnkaraka ... 177826155/

Load that up then view the page source, then hit control+f and search for the text below the image, which in this case is "HTC Desire HD". When you find that text wrapped in header tags (which was the first thing my browser found in the document for that particular image, but sometimes you have to hit "next" a few times to find the right place), just look above it and you'll see the image URL right there - in this case, it's http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/517 ... 4cf3_z.jpg

I'm sure people smarter than me have better ways of doing it, but that's my method.

Ohh yeah, I tried that before I asked but didn't think it was right because the picture is small.

That happens if you find the wrong URL. If you find the right one, right above the caption text, it should be the same size - if not slightly larger - than the image you see on the site, because, well, it is the image you see on the site

Thx but I still can't find pictures that match the size I need for the site and cutting doesn't really work seeing as I need the whole pic.

You can resize images easily. Do you have a PC or Mac?

I have a PC.