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[Why would you do that?]

I had NO idea that avatars over 90 px wide were allowed (assuming it stretches to 120 or less vertically), even after readingthe FAQ multiple times. I can utilize that to make my avatar a hgh res picture!

I was wondering why some people, when avatar quoted, they had a high res picture. I always figured that the users doing the avatar quoting searched Google or something for the high res picture.

 

[Zoe]

I had NO idea that avatars over 90 px wide were allowed (assuming it stretches to 120 or less vertically), even after readingthe FAQ multiple times. I can utilize that to make my avatar a hgh res picture!

Er... please don't. It looks like shit and picks up jaggies when they get sized down.

 

[Red Scarlet]

I added the right click thing in the OP, that's how I check. So far they seem good in this thread.

So how about letting me be able to have an avatar,pretty please?

I had nothing to do with that one, so I can't undo what someone else already did.

current one should resize to 90x104. within limits. the auto-resize tripped me up last time, thanks for the update.

edit: can you please reset? i have set the 90x104 (after resize) as my av in the user CP but still have the placeholder. thanks!

I didn't change yours, either.

Peronthious, yours should be working again now. Sorry for using you as a guinea pig.

 

[Why would you do that?]

Er... please don't. It looks like shit and picks up jaggies when they get sized down.

Hmm... Maybe it depends on the browser and the picture? I haven't actually noticed anyone's avatar with jaggies. I'll have to look again, and maybe experiment with stuff.

To be safe, I always make them 90x120 anyway.

 

[DogWelder]

Hmm... Maybe it depends on the browser and the picture? I haven't actually noticed anyone's avatar with jaggies. I'll have to look again, and maybe experiment with stuff.

To be safe, I always make them 90x120 anyway.

It does depend on the browser. In general, Chrome scales pictures better than Firefox. No idea about IE.

 

[Platy]

So .. no problem with my 50x50 ?

 

[Red Scarlet]

So .. no problem with my 50x50 ?

It's fine, but because of the upscale it's 2x as large as the original, so you could add blank space to the original if you don't want it to expand. But if you like how it looks anyway, then it's completely fine as it is.

 

[syoaran]

testing the re-size

 

[Rctdaemon]

testing the re-size

According to Firefox, your avatar is too large vertically after it is scaled. (It scales to 90x135)

 

[KevinCow]

I had NO idea that avatars over 90 px wide were allowed (assuming it stretches to 120 or less vertically), even after readingthe FAQ multiple times. I can utilize that to make my avatar a hgh res picture!

Why would you do that?

Seriously, just stick with 90 wide and 120 or less tall. The way the board scales larger and smaller images looks like shit.

 

[Nizz]

Posting here so I can review it.

I checked yours and it seemed a little big so I trimmed it up a bit.

If you want to grab it and rehost. It's 90x120 now.

 

[luffeN]

Avatar check

edit: it says scaled to 90 by 78, should be fine!

 

[Verapamil]

Aaaand... Good.

 

[DualShadow]

Avatar Test

Edit: Scaled to 90x90 so all good.

Spoiler

If not let me know

:lol

 

[nosf1234]

testing

 

[Red Scarlet]

testing the re-size

Too tall (90x135 with resize).

testing

Too tall (90x135 with resize).

 

[Aaron Strife]

Checking mah avatar

e: So, it adds to the width until it reaches 90, then adds the same amount to the height? Mine should be 90 x 90 then.

 

[nosf1234]

Am i ok now?

 

[ajim]

Is mine aiight?

edit: mine is spot on.

 

[Nilla]

Whoops - mine was too large (filesize).

I've no idea how to shrink down an animated gif, so I'll just go with this picture of my dog for the moment.

 

[Red Scarlet]

Am i ok now?

Yep. Thanks.

 

[KevinCow]

Whoops - mine was too large (filesize).

I've no idea how to shrink down an animated gif, so I'll just go with this picture of my dog for the moment.

Download GIMP. It's a free sort of Photoshop-light. Not nearly as fully featured as Photoshop, but it kicks the shit out of something like MS Paint. It'll let you shrink down a gif pretty easily.

 

[dyergram]

is mine ok peeps?

 

[causan]

Download GIMP. It's a free sort of Photoshop-light. Not nearly as fully featured as Photoshop, but it kicks the shit out of something like MS Paint. It'll let you shrink down a gif pretty easily.

Thanks for the link. I was able to resize my gif with it.

*edit. Fixed. All good now

 

[Majmun]

Use the properties function and check your avatar(s), jeez!

edit-

hmm, never knew mine was 100x100.
Fixed it.

 

[D4Danger]

If you're using Chrome and you want to check (it doesn't have Image Properties)

right-click the image and press 'Inspect element'. Then look for the box 'Metrics'

 

[hypersheep]

testing

 

[isitstill]

testing

 

[KamenSenshi]

my dimensions are good what about the size for some reason it varies when i check in ie compared to my normal

 

[notsol337]

Say, how awesome is my avatar?

 

[JaseC]

my dimensions are good what about the size for some reason it varies when i check in ie compared to my normal

I'm getting 10.65KB in Firefox. It's well under the 150KB limit.

 

[Carolina-blue]

Test

 

[Knux-Future]

i'm no good at this avatar stuff...

how's mine?

 

[KamenSenshi]

I'm getting 10.65KB in Firefox. It's well under the 150KB limit.

cool, thanks

 

[GregLombardi]

Is my avatar okay? I don't know how to measure pixels to be honest but I don't want to lose my avatar

 

[isitstill]

I must be an idiot. None of the urls that I'm entering work. What could I be doing wrong?

 

[Red Scarlet]

testing

88px × 120px (scaled to 90px × 123px)

Kamen and Greg, yours are fine.

 

[JaseC]

i'm no good at this avatar stuff...

how's mine?

Fine: 143x100 scaled to 90x63 @ 125.24KB.

Is my avatar okay? I don't know how to measure pixels to be honest but I don't want to lose my avatar

Also fine: 71x93 scaled to 90x118 @ 46.61KB.

 

[mavs]

checking avatar.

 

[outunderthestars]

Sigh. I mistakenly thought mine was ok, and got stuck with the avatar of shame .

 

["IAMBEEFLESS"]

How about mine?

 

[JaseC]

checking avatar.

Fine: 90x90 @ 10.1KB.

Sigh. I mistakenly thought mine was ok, and got stuck with the avatar of shame .

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/35316349.gif

It's under the dimension limits, but almost 1MB. :lol

Edit: And yeah, it'll scale beyond the dimension limits when used as an avatar.

How about mine?

Fine: 90x90 @ 15.73KB.

(Post edited for clarity.)

 

[outunderthestars]

It's under the size limits, but almost 1MB. :lol

Yea, I didn't know about the size limits. Oh well.

 

[Meier]

Anyone who needs to re-size their avatar: Paint.net is awesome and free.

 

[DogWelder]

@outunderthestars

Actually, it scales to 90 x 134. So it was too big in both ways. :lol

 

[Snapshot King]

Is mine alright? I put it in a few days ago on a whim. I could go back.

 

[DogWelder]

It's too big; half a MB.

 

[Snapshot King]

It's too big; half a MB.

How bout now?

 

[JaseC]

How bout now?

You're safe! (scales to 90x103 @ 30.66KB)

 

[hateradio]

I've decided to update my Avatar Failures script. It will only "FAIL" avatars that are large.

Soooo, now you can do this more efficiently.


Bad avatars will look like this:

And when clicked you'll see the size.