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Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:13 pm

I searched but didnt find what i needed. How do i post an avatar? i have a few pics i would like to make one for on here

Moderator note:
If you can't figure it out, email the full size photo to Everett at everettb@thesamba.com and I will add it for you.

Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:25 pm

You'll need to resize the picture with a photo editing program, then you can upload it - its the very last option on your Control Panel page.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/profile.php?mode=editprofile

Your photo will have to be under 100x100 pixels and less than 8KB total file size.

For photo editing and resizing, I use a french freeware program called PhotoFiltre, myself. A lot of people use some version or other of PhotoShop.

And here's a thread that talks about photo resizing.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51

Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:31 pm

And The Gimp is a good phote manipulation program.
Best thing, it is free. Almost as good as Photoshop.

Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:42 pm

Get a free photobucket.com account. There is a feature that will size it to "avatar" size.

Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:16 pm

You could also upload the picture, if it is VW related, to the gallery. Then use the thumbnail for an avatar. :)

Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:33 pm

i used the thumbnail url from my flickr.com site into "the pic from a website" under the download from your computer line

my infranview wouldn't work for me

Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:51 am

busfreak_71 wrote: You could also upload the picture, if it is VW related, to the gallery. Then use the thumbnail for an avatar. :)

I thought I would expand on this, especially since now the Gallery has larger thumbnails, ones that are too large to use as avatars.

To grab an avatar-size image from a Gallery entry, click on the Gallery photo so that all you see in your browser is the photo.
The web address in your browser will be something like this:
http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/794468.jpg
The small thumbnail address, the one you could use for an avatar will be:
http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/thumbnails/794468.jpg
Example:

You have to add the thumbnails address in the address to access the smaller image.

You can use that address in your Control Panel to add the image to your profile. Enter the address in this box in your Control Panel:
Upload Avatar from a URL

Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:49 pm

I just figured out how to do this on Picasa.

Choose your photo.
Save a copy.
select the copy.
Under File click Export to folder
resize to 100.

Then just browse from the upload from machine and choose the resized image.

Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:38 am

I tried to upload an avatar for about 4 times. It just won't work....... what shall i do? It's 100*100 px alright.

Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:41 am

Nazeem Duren wrote: I tried to upload an avatar for about 4 times. It just won't work....... what shall i do? It's 100*100 px alright.
I bet it's size is too large.

Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:52 am

Glenn wrote: Nazeem Duren wrote: I tried to upload an avatar for about 4 times. It just won't work....... what shall i do? It's 100*100 px alright.
I bet it's size is too large.
Yes, check the file size on disk.

You may have to do a "Save As..." in your image program and change the JPG compression ratio. I use 85% in the program I have. This is 15% compression, in case your program uses a different sort of scale.

Or email it me at everettb@thesamba.com and I can add it for you.

Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:32 pm

Yeah got it. Size was the problem :D