Can you still have a full-size avatar but keep your 360 page private?

Question

Can you still have a full-size avatar but keep your 360 page private?

Answer 1

No 360 space is fully private. For example, your personal profile pic module, top page comments, and friends module are always viewable by the public. But if you mean that you want to show the full body of your avatar on Yahoo! Answers, but not reveal the link to your 360 space in your Y/A profile - yes, you can do that. One has nothing to do with the other. But the image will still be small though when viewed on Y/A.

STEP #1: Download your avatar to your computer

Open a new window or tab. Download your avatar from the avatars site (http://avatars.yahoo.com ). Click the "Export" link that's in the blue box on the right of the front page. Click the tiny "Download" link at the top left of the next page. Choose to download the JPEG full-size image of your avatar to your computer. See http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/avatars... for more about downloading avatars.

STEP #2: Upload the avatar image to your Yahoo! 360 personal profile picture module.

Go back the window that has your 360 space displayed (or just go to your 360 space).

- Click your "My Page" link at the top

- Click "Edit Profile Photos" over the empty picture frame

- Click "Browse" and upload photo into an empty field. Then click the "use as primary" radio button on the right of the full-size avatar image before saving (if you've uploaded more than one pic to that module).

STEP #3: Choose to display the 360 image in the Y/A site.

Come back to Yahoo! Answers. Make sure that you are logged in with the same ID in Y/A as in Y!360. Click the "My Profile" link to the upper right of this Yahoo! Answers page, then click "Edit My Info" in the top left box on the Answers profile page. Scroll down to the image section and check the option of showing the 360 picture. Click Preview and then the OK button. Then, WAIT.

NOTE: The image may not show up right away in Y/A, as it sometimes take days (and for some weeks) for the system to catch up. So, in the meantime, you will be without any picture on Y/A (blank, grayed out, messed up...whatever you want to call it). Just go through the above process and let your picture stay that way until the system makes your 360 image appear. If you don't want to wait, then just use a Yahoo! Avatar (http://avatars.yahoo.com ) and forget about doing this.

Also, some people never see an image show up. You can always post a bug report (or piggyback on other's bug reports) on the issue at the Y/A forum: http://suggestions.yahoo.com/?prop=answe... . This link between Y/A and Y!360 has been buggy for years.

You can put any JPEG image that you would like on Yahoo! Answers, as long as it fits under Yahoo! 360 specs (again, JPEG format and under 5MB in file size), doesn't violate Yahoo guidelines, and you don't have glitch going on with your Y/A or 360 profile. The above instructions above show you how to convert an animated avatar to a JPEG image that you can use on Y/A.