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Red Ryder Samba Member
Joined: June 26, 2021 Posts: 951 Location: Northern California
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:14 pm Post subject: Avatar photo sizing |
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I really appreciate the personalized avatars here showing the poster’s rig. How do you reduce a photo to the proper size so it will upload via my control panel? _________________ “Most everyone’s mad here. You may have noticed I am not quite all there myself.” — Cheshire Cat, Adventures of Alice in Wonderland
“Scarlett” — 1990 Vanagon Carat Wolfsburg Edition
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fxr Samba Member
Joined: December 07, 2014 Posts: 2321 Location: Bay area CA
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 3:25 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar photo sizing |
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Red Ryder wrote: |
I really appreciate the personalized avatars here showing the poster’s rig. How do you reduce a photo to the proper size so it will upload via my control panel? |
On a Windows pc? Use Irfanview - one of the very few shareware programs I've donated significantly to. Really useful and productive once you use a few keyboard shortcuts. Batch resizing is great.
https://www.irfanview.com/
Just a *very* happy user. _________________ Jim Crowther
1984 1.9l EJ22 Westy Wolfsburg Edition
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Glenn Mr. 010
Joined: December 25, 2001 Posts: 76902 Location: Sneaking up behind you
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shagginwagon83 Samba Member
Joined: February 07, 2016 Posts: 3795 Location: VA/TN
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar photo sizing |
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That area supports gifs too _________________ Brandon
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9.5isCanadian Samba Member
Joined: September 16, 2017 Posts: 465 Location: In your blind spot.
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 4:32 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar photo sizing |
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I just use good 'ol windoze paint.
I'm so basic.
_________________ 9 1/2 - missing a few pieces.
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Glenn Mr. 010
Joined: December 25, 2001 Posts: 76902 Location: Sneaking up behind you
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar photo sizing |
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9.5isCanadian wrote: |
I just use good 'ol windoze paint.
I'm so basic.
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_________________ Glenn
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sanchius Samba Member
Joined: May 03, 2007 Posts: 1451 Location: IN
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 4:49 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar photo sizing |
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Another vote for IrfanView, I've used it for many many years
In addition to resizing, its other photo editing options (crop, rotate, color-balance, etc) allow you to make most photos more vivid/centered/interesting.
Standard IrfanView workflow: Rotate to level (Ctrl-U), Crop out unwanted parts of photo (select area + Ctrl-Y), then just slightly darken/saturate/contrast (Shift-G) & maybe sharpen (Shift-S) to make up for my ancient phone camera's deficiencies. _________________ The Syncro years (2005-16) - The 2WD years (2017-23) - Westy & WBX rebuild spreadsheet - Sanchius & Tuna: The Video
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Chickensoup Samba Member
Joined: January 06, 2018 Posts: 5368 Location: Good Hope, GA
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar photo sizing |
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i have a possible request Mr. Everett...
avatars are limited to 100PX x 100PX. But, it seems theres plenty of space on the right margin.
how hard would it be to allow the max image size to be 130 or so px? From my limited coding skills, when i wrote my website, i had a linked CSS page that set the foundations for general lay out. would be as easy as changing 2 sets of numbers in css and java script?
just and idea, You know the site better than anyone. _________________ -'85 c10 5.3 LS, 222 cam, long tubes, x pipe, 3 inch spin tech's
-'05 B5.5 TDI Wagon 17in sport rims ;EGR + BSM + ASV Delete, Stage-2 Tune, straight pipe
'65 Tourist Delivery Build
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'69 RIP
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EverettB Administrator
Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69809 Location: Phoenix Metro
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar photo sizing |
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Yes, they could be made larger if a bunch of people agree.
It's a setting in the web site configuration for the Forums so just changing the height and width numbers there.
I looked at the latest version of the Forums program and it looks like their current default is 120x120 pixels so they may have increased it over time.
Note: Your avatar would not get larger automatically, you would have to create and upload a new version. _________________ How to Post Photos
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Chickensoup Samba Member
Joined: January 06, 2018 Posts: 5368 Location: Good Hope, GA
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar photo sizing |
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So... how do i get people to voice themselves?
Post a poll in the general chat forum?
If you dont mind checking, how much more space can we have? Like, how much width is left in the margin before thing start to look crappy or well, go over the vertical line?
thanks _________________ -'85 c10 5.3 LS, 222 cam, long tubes, x pipe, 3 inch spin tech's
-'05 B5.5 TDI Wagon 17in sport rims ;EGR + BSM + ASV Delete, Stage-2 Tune, straight pipe
'65 Tourist Delivery Build
'66 RIP
'69 RIP
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EverettB Administrator
Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69809 Location: Phoenix Metro
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:22 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar photo sizing |
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Current column width for that area is set to a fixed 150.
I would want to leave a little room of course so 120 or 130 should both be ok.
I would probably pick 120 in order to be consistent with the latest version default, in case I can upgrade.
Ideally people would see there is a new post here and respond. _________________ How to Post Photos
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Chickensoup Samba Member
Joined: January 06, 2018 Posts: 5368 Location: Good Hope, GA
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:18 am Post subject: Re: Avatar photo sizing |
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Cool. Sounda good Mr. Everett.
Come on people. Post _________________ -'85 c10 5.3 LS, 222 cam, long tubes, x pipe, 3 inch spin tech's
-'05 B5.5 TDI Wagon 17in sport rims ;EGR + BSM + ASV Delete, Stage-2 Tune, straight pipe
'65 Tourist Delivery Build
'66 RIP
'69 RIP
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