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[Sue]

Having spend all day trying to add my avatar to my profile, it is nearly 6pm and I have finally done it!! BUT why is it so small when everyone elses is bigger????? Can anyone help as otherwise I've wasted my time as no one can see it anyway!!!!!!!!!!

 

[chrismahon]

I'm glad you've asked this question Sue. I would to add a profile of handsome Claude but certainly haven't got a day to spend doing it. So perhaps an answer here will enable me to do it?

You are right, even at 200% magnification I can't see it.

 

[foxy]

Well done Sue! 08 08 It is rather small...how did you upload it?

 

[Marigold]

When i did mine, it took all day, plus a lot of help from Tim, and then I thought I'd have just one last try, and I put in what i thought I'd done many times before, and BINGO! Up came Marigold!
I kept on getting messages that the file was too big, so then I made it small, according to what it said it had to be, and then it told me it was too small to use. I have since wondered if the quality of the pic is a factor, as well as the actual size of the file - I mean quality as in whether it's high, medium or low definition. But really I've no idea how I did it in the end.
Yours looks like a sailing ship to me, Sue, but I expect it's a chicken. We could start a competition to see who could guess the subject, to pass the time until you manage to enlarge it. At least nobody else has got one like that!

 

[Bertie & The Chooks]

i don't remember how i did it!! lol but i remember it being a pain in the whatsit! lol

I think in the end I used Photobucket avatar setting and used the share link to upload it.

 

[Bertie & The Chooks]

if it's any help, i want to change mine as it was the only photo i had on my computer at the time for Bertie. but i don't like it because of the chicken wire. My partner has sorted out our saved photos now and I'm going to find a nicer one of Bertie. I can write down step by step what i do and post it here

 

[foxy]

You can also use "PIXresizer" free software.

Upload your photo and click custom to enter the dimensions of the avatar. I have just changed mine and used 90X70.

The quality of the photo does affect the size, higher quality =smaller photo uploaded, I think... 07

 

[Bertie & The Chooks]

You can also use "PIXresizer" free software.

Upload your photo and click custom to enter the dimensions of the avatar. I have just changed mine and used 90X70.

The quality of the photo does affect the size, higher quality =smaller photo uploaded, I think... 07

agreed, i think i prefer photobucket though because it will host the photo as well for free.

 

[Marigold]

That's a lovely new avatar though, foxy. but it wiill take a bit of getting used to!

 

[foxy]

You can also use "PIXresizer" free software.

Upload your photo and click custom to enter the dimensions of the avatar. I have just changed mine and used 90X70.

The quality of the photo does affect the size, higher quality =smaller photo uploaded, I think... 07

agreed, i think i prefer photobucket though because it will host the photo as well for free.

Yes I use Photobucket too, really easy to use, plus handy having somewhere online to host photos, although I find the adverts a bit irritating!

 

[foxy]

That's a lovely new avatar though, foxy. but it wiill take a bit of getting used to!

Sorry Marigold... :roll: You lot prompted me to see if I could remember how to change it! Might change to a chick pic later!

 

[Sue]

That's interesting Foxy, I thought yours was a paper cut out of a hen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sue]

I don't believe this, I've just typed a long explanation of how I did it etc etc. etc. and clicked 'submit' and the whole thing has disappeared! I give up with these computers!

 

[Bertie & The Chooks]

You can also use "PIXresizer" free software.

Upload your photo and click custom to enter the dimensions of the avatar. I have just changed mine and used 90X70.

The quality of the photo does affect the size, higher quality =smaller photo uploaded, I think... 07

agreed, i think i prefer photobucket though because it will host the photo as well for free.

Yes I use Photobucket too, really easy to use, plus handy having somewhere online to host photos, although I find the adverts a bit irritating!

I think i must be a weirdo, i never notice the adverts! lol i tend to phase them out some how. :lol:

 

[Sue]

Well done Chris! How did you do that? I've managed to make mine bigger, but now the quality is rubbish!

 

[chrismahon]

What do you recon then? Isn't he handsome. Paintshop pro8. Selected a window on the photo and deleted the rest. Reset to 90 pixels by whatever it came to (87 in this case). Checked file size at 5.28KB. Selected it in 'edit avatar' and ...............nothing happened. So tried again, still nothing. So just pressed 'submit' , in the hope that Tim could bail me out if I sank, and it appeared!!!

You must have lost the pixel size Sue. Just aim for 90 x 90

 

[foxy]

Wow Chris! Love the avatar, Claude is very handsome! 08 08

Sue where has yours gone? Do you want to email a photo to me and I will see if I can sort it? Although I quite like the way Chris tackled it!

 

[Sue]

Foxy, I've got Photoshop Elements not Photoshop, so I can't follow the instructions from Chris. I am trying to do it from my Mac and so can't use the resizing programme you suggested. I would love to email the photo to you, but that would mean giving up and I'm almost in tears as it is and deleted the minuscule hen from my avatar in frustration!!!!

 

[chrismahon]

Forgot to mention when I filed the photo with a new name having worked on it I had set the image to 'full screen', because at 'full size' it was a tiny hardly visible square in the middle of a blank page. I assumed that the forum software could squeeze it down to the available avatar frame but not pick it out and blow it up, which is a more complex process. Of course it looked really grainy at screen size as you could see every pixel.

 

[Tim]

I feel an Avatar FAQ coming on although I don't remember how to do it myself though! :lol:

With images, a large physical image on the screen = more pixels...i.e 90 x 90 pixels is tiny but 800 x 800 would fill most of the forum screen.

You also have a quality setting in most software - this affects the image file size on disk and how good the image looks. The more compression that is applied to get a smaller file size, the more information is thrown away in an image and the worse it looks.

The forum will only allow certain sizes - the physical size (to fit the available space) ... but also the file size (as it has to create a page quickly and send it to us and a large file size would mean a slow page load time).

I hope this makes some sense!

So whatever software you use, you would need to follow the restrictions it gives for both physical image size in pixels AND file size in Kb. for it to work.