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Darin Spayd
 Post subject: Avatars
PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:46 pm 
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Hesh,

How'd yours get so big? "Oh, behave!" (Austin Powers :) )

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Mike_P
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Yes, I know, I'm not Hesh...

but...the settings on this software have been changed to allow larger avatars...and many times when a person chooses a custom avatar they make it themselves and have to reduce its size to make it work on a forum....so in my eyes the question should be how did you make that nice .jpg so small! ;)
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Hesh2
 Post subject: Re: Avatars
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:lol: :lol: :lol: We can have avatars that are up to 200 X 200 pixels with a total file size not to exceed 10kb.

I used Photoshop to crop and resize a photo to meet the above requirements.

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Ken Franklin
 Post subject: Re: Avatars
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If you don't have Photoshop you could use shrinkpictures.com.

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Bob Garrish
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I'm pretty fond of a program called IrfanView. It's free, and I use it as my image viewer as well as to crop and resize any photos I have. The filtering in it's pretty solid.

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Kim
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Bob Garrish wrote:
I'm pretty fond of a program called IrfanView. It's free, and I use it as my image viewer as well as to crop and resize any photos I have. The filtering in it's pretty solid.

I second Bob on the use of Irfanview, it is a great little viewer that I have been using for around 8 years.

Cheers

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Colin S
 Post subject: Re: Avatars
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I have to say that I think that having an avatar 200px wide is intrusive on the text columns, it's very untidy when all of a sudden as you scan down and an avatar intrudes into the meat of the thread. About 140px wide seems to be the best visual fit for the forum.

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Jim Kirby
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My old one was 100 by 100 but was 20K big. I wonder if I can simply resave it as a different file type. I don't know these tools yet on the Mac.

Oh, look at that - there it is. What happened?

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Todd Rose
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Please tell me we're not going to have animated avatars again! :o

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Bill Greene
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Well, here we go...first post on the new software. So far, this is downright dreamy.

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Margido
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Hi guys, just checking the waters...


<edit> Wow, the edit button really works!
How do you guys like my new avatar? :roll:
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Hesh2
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OK point well taken - I created an avatar 140 pixels wide as Colin suggested.

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Dave Anderson
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Avatars are cool but I too don't like the animated ones very much.
Are we sticking with the still life avatars?

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Michael Dale Payne
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I'm glad they are at lease big enough to see now. Hey wearing my glasses helps too :lol: :lol:
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Bob Garrish
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Mine looked so pretty at 200px! :)
But, solid argument on the aesthetic, so 140 it is.

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HowardK
 Post subject: Re: Avatars
PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:54 pm 
Todd Rose wrote:
Please tell me we're not going to have animated avatars again! :o


Looks like the contest is on for the grossest photo of damaged flesh. I'm sure someone can top a mere leg shot of brown recluse morbidity. How about a third degree burn on someone's face? That oughta do it.
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Terry Stowell
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Hey Kim,
Put that thing away before you poke somebody's eye out!
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BobK
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So far so good. Edit, posting pics and deleting pics. Sweet.
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I think avatars are excuses for me to waist even MORE time.

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Mark Maquillan
 Post subject: Re: Avatars
PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:36 am 
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Well I used the photo editing software Bob recommended to get the avitar going. Worked OK for me. Thanks Bob

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R W Goodman
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I noticed a striking similarity in our avatars. I'll change mine but was feeling really pleased with El Kabong. Darn.
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WaddyThomson
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I don't know, Jim, it looks like you are jumping into the conversation, and he's jumping out of it. Big difference! :)

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Kirt Myers
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Hi,

FYI you can resize pictures with the old microsoft paint program on just about every PC.

Go into the view menu, then the stretch/skew menu. I go about 30% on both vertical and horizontal.

You might have to size em a couple times to get what you want.

Happy trails...

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BobK
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BoBK
I noticed a striking similarity in our avatars. I'll change mine but was feeling really pleased with El Kabong. Darn.
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I think there's room for more than one El Kabong. But I'm happy to switch to Bizarro Kabong.
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