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I tried the thumbnail thing and it didn't - user error perhaps?
Thanks for the fix.
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mandraks
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 2:54 pm Post subject: Re: How to post an avatar (profile picture) |
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the answer was in the post you quoted.
you need to simply add the word "thumbnails" to your URL to get a small enough image
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/thumbnails/1597342.jpg
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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:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/794468.jpg
The small thumbnail address, the one you could use for an avatar will be:
https://www.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 |
Sorry for doing this from an old post but . . .
I've tried several methods to replace my recently vanished avatar pic.
I uploaded the pic to "My Photos" gallery and inserted that url where the avatar asks for an url. It then tells me "Unable to upload file"
Here is the url https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/1597342.jpg
Feelin kinda dumb right now - any suggestions beside have a beer or 2 ?
Thank you
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I can get the photos to 100x100 pixels, but 76kb is the smallest I can compress, I haven't tried the save as tip that I just read. If that doesn't work , I will email it.
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Went back to it today and indeed it still said size 10.1 but it also said size on disc 16kb.
dont know what all this is about but I resized again untill i got it to size on disc 12kb and it uploaded fine although looking a little small.
Ive been sold that size doesn't matter many times so all is good 
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| resized resized and resized, now down to 10.1kb and its still saying it needs to be less than 12kb.... eeerrrr well it is. So why wont it up load ? |
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Rock on Ev! Thank you again.
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| I believe in Photoshop you want to do a "Save for Web..." in order to get it to a reasonable size. |
Thank Ev! I've been trying to change my Av for a while now. I leave it and then I try it and then I get frustrated and leave it. Not that I want to forget HBB, but just something new.
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In photoshop I've got the image down to 80x80 and low quality and it's still to large for an av. 
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:32 pm Post subject: Thanks |
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Yeah got it. Size was the problem  |
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| 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 [email protected] and I can add it for you.
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/794468.jpg
The small thumbnail address, the one you could use for an avatar will be:
https://www.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
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