So how do you get your avatar the right size?

[Provost Harrison]

What I mean is UR if you are dealing with a larger picture and need to reduce it. As there is nothing like alpha blending in GIFs, if the original image consists of discrete lines and colours, they would be blended if reduced. If you set the background colour first, there will be no blending with the background colour so you can go straight on and use the GIF.

[Exile]

testing avatar photo

Does it work?

edit; NO. Can someone offer some help here?

[Hueij]

Re: testing avatar photo

Originally posted by Exile
Does it work?

edit; NO. Can someone offer some help here?

Well, we don't know until you tell what you want Just attach the picture you want avatarised...

[Exile]

ok

Here it is. It's a jpg and I would like to see it at the side over there as an avatar, not a big picture in the post itself. The task has proven to difficult for me, apparently.

[Urban Ranger]

Okay, which part of that image you want to be your avatar? The whole thing is too big to fit: you'll lose a lot of details.

[Urban Ranger]

Sample of what the avatar will look like.

There's a limitation on the avatar. Dimension cannot be bigger than 64 x 64 pixels and file size at 10K or less.

[Exile]

You are correct.

First of all, THANK YOU, UR, for helping out.

About the image; can you cut off a significant amount of the top part of the original photo? It seems that if we could do that, it would leave a good part of the original image intact. You are correct in pointing out that in reducing the image to the size you have there, it tends to lose most if not all detail. I think that some of the bottom of the original image could be cropped as well. I suppose that I should state that my intention is to create an avatar that is sufficiently clear enough to enable others to see who I am. I very much dislike "hiding" behind an anonymous username and want others to know to whom they are speaking.

Exile

[Urban Ranger]

Here's a cropped version. Please comment.

[Exile]

Thanks, UR

How do I take the image you've produced and place it as an avatar?

Exile

[Dis]

well the easiest way would be to right click on the picture and left click save picture as. save it to a file you can remember. then click on control panel on the apolyton forum page, go to edit options. at the bottom is the avatar. click on change avatar. they have a nifty button on the next web page that comes up. You can browse any file in your hard drive, and select any picture you want. If it is the right size, apolyton will accept it.

I know that is a very detailed description. I hope none of that is too obvious.

[Laszlo]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
...although you really should use PNG (Portable Network Graphics) instead of GIF, since GIF uses a patented compression algorithm which is owned by Unisys.

It is all right to use GIFs, as long as your graphics program has paid the licensing fee to Unisys there should be no conflict. But even if it isn't licensed, don't worry. Nobody likes Unisys anyway.

[Urban Ranger]

Sadly it's not the program that needs to pay it's the images. Even if nobody likes Unisys it's the principle that counts

[Urban Ranger]

Yikes! Exile's avatar looks fuzzy I hope this new one is better

[Laszlo]

Exile, if you want IO could rotate your avatar to the right 15 degrees and crop it to a larger view of your face. And there'd be enough room for a title, like "Exile" running along the side.

[Hueij]

Why don't you cut the face from the background?