# Create a Custom Avatar

## 📌 Overview

Custom avatars are personalized AI presenters your organization can use across its courses. You can generate an avatar with AI or upload a photo of a real person, then crop it, name it, choose a voice — filtering by gender, age, and accent — and add a background. This guide walks through the whole creation workflow and how to manage your avatars afterward. It's for admins, who'll find it under **Settings > Custom Avatar**.

### Step 1: Open Custom Avatar

From **Settings**, open **Custom Avatar**. If your organization already has avatars, you'll land on **My Custom Avatars** — click **Create Custom Avatar** to start a new one.

### Step 2: Choose how to provide the image

On the create screen, pick **Generate with AI** to answer a few questions and let Quinn generate options, or **I already have an image** to upload a photo of the person.

![Create a Custom Avatar screen with Generate with AI and I already have an image options](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/create-a-custom-avatar_step_02.png)

### Step 3: Upload your image

Click or drag and drop a photo onto the upload area. For best results, use an image showing the person from the waist up, facing forward. Don't worry about the background — Quinn removes it automatically.

### Step 4: Position and crop

Drag the image and use the **Zoom** slider to fit the head roughly inside the oval guide — it doesn't need to be exact. When it looks right, click **Confirm Crop**.

![Position & Crop Your Avatar screen with the head in the oval guide, a Zoom slider, and a Confirm Crop button](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/create-a-custom-avatar_step_04.png)

### Step 5: Name it and pick a voice

Enter an **Avatar Name**, then choose a **Voice**. Narrow the list with the **Gender**, **Age**, and **Accent** filters above the selector, and use the play button to preview a voice. When you're happy, click **Create Avatar**.

💡 Tip: Only filters with more than one available value appear, so you may see fewer than three.

### Step 6: Add a background

Quinn creates the avatar with its background removed. Add a new one with **Generate with AI** (describe the scene and click **Generate**) or **Upload** your own image, then click **Continue**.

![Background step showing the avatar preview with a Generate with AI text box and a Generate button](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/create-a-custom-avatar_step_06.png)

### Step 7: Manage your avatars

Back on **My Custom Avatars**, click an avatar's image to open a large preview, or use **Edit background** / **Add background** and **Remove background** to adjust it. **Delete** removes an avatar entirely. Your saved avatars are now available when editing a course.

![My Custom Avatars page showing a saved avatar card with its voice, Edit background, and Delete controls](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/create-a-custom-avatar_step_07.png)

💡 Tip: Organizations have a custom-avatar limit. If you reach it, reach out at info@meetquinn.ai to create more.