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Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:21 am

Ok i give up. I have tried to put an avitar on my profile but it always says it's too big. this time i reduced the image till it would take it. BUT it shows up teeny tiny on here , what gives??? How are you guys putting avitars up??

Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:35 am

Think AVATARS supposed to be limited to something like 100 pixels to 100
pixels....

This is what it says in AVATAR upload area...

Quote: Displays a small graphic image below your details in posts. Only one image can be displayed at a time, its width can be no greater than 100 pixels, the height no greater than 100 pixels, and the file size no more than 8 KB.

Get something like IRFANVIEW, crop out all unwanted details in picture and then save and reduce in size....... AVATAR is supposed to be SMALL.... Its similar to thumbnail size.

http://www.irfanview.com

Dale

Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:57 am

I used photo shop and reduced it to that size but samba said it was too big so i kept reducing it till the samba took it, but like it is on my pc - you cant see it

Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:10 am

I used photoshop i went to image size and reduced the pixels there
I had to play around with it because the picture isn't square you can try to crop what you want square and try it again. thats what i did.
Hope this helps.

Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:18 am

glassbuggy wrote: I used photo shop and reduced it to that size but samba said it was too big so i kept reducing it till the samba took it, but like it is on my pc - you cant see it

What may be killing you is size in "disk space".... You want to use the JPG compression settings the give you largest image but smaller "size" in k-bytes.....

Quote: ....file size no more than 8 KB.

Not all picture compression is the same even if it is same file name extender...

I've had images created with one brand software that were "to large", and loaded it into another brand of imaging software (irfanview) and resolution seemed the same, image dimensions seemed the same but actual file "size" in kbytes it was smaller when saved, and lets be honest, once image is that small image quality in not a issue....

Dale

Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:05 pm

If you are using Photoshop, make sure you use "Save for the Web". This allows you to reduce the compression as much as needed to get the size you want.