how do I get my avatar to show up on questions & answers?

If you would like to make an yahoo cartoon avatar or change it click this link.

http://avatars.yahoo.com/

Then to customize how you look, what outfit to wear. And background ''+ more''.

✖ Click the “appearance” tab to choose your skin color, face and eyes, and hairstyle. Pick your eye and hair colors by clicking on the colored squares to the right of each image.

✖ Click the ''apparel'' tab You can try on full outfits or different tops and bottoms. Mix and match.

✖ Click the ''extras'' tab to try out accessories like sunglasses. sports and hobbies gear such as backpacks, bikes, and snowboards. Adopt a cute pet. Or try different hats.

✖ Click the "Backgrounds" tab if you like the snow, the beach, or a nightclub.

Once you've customized your avatar, don't forget to scroll down to the bottom of the Profile page and press "Preview", and then "OK" in the next screen. And your done.

If you need any help click this link

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/avatars/preferenc...

TO GET A PHOTO/CUSTOM PICTURE AS YOUR AVATAR.

If you want a photo/custom picture as your avatar you need to make a ''My Yahoo!'' account.

http://profiles.yahoo.com/

The photo/image needs to be saved on your computer as a jpg file. Then go to the following 4 steps. below

✖ Go to your ''My Yahoo!'' page then click "my page”.

✖ Click "in your picture" (on the left above photo window).

✖ Click ''Change my photo'' choose the photo from your photos click ''Use selected photo''.

✖ Go to your ''edit my profile'' http://answers.yahoo.com/my/my_edit click use my ''My yahoo picture'' scroll down and press ''preview'', and then "OK" in the next screen.

And your done.

Yahoo engineers are still working on improvements throughout all yahoo sites and some avatars may be slow to show (it could even be a day or so) so try to be patient.

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Go in your profile

click on edit my avatar

a link will show up

http://avatars.yahoo.com/

press on preference

mark in your gender male or female

proceed with appearance skin color

hair color and hairstyle

eyes

most are brown

apparel clothes

tops bottoms full outfits full sizes

extras issues and causes

pets

holidays and occasions

with these there are backgrounds

moods happy sad excited angry and special

click on the mood

when you are done

press save my changes

avatar saved

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Now if you created your avatar out of here

press - minimize screen

come in yahoo answers

click on the circle in the first picture place

press preview

press okay

Put your avatar on your Yahoo profile. Then, be sure the correct box is checked where it says toi use the avatar from your Yahoo profile.