zlim Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 I had a terrible time this morn trying to change from my Christmas avatar to something else. I'm not happy with the result. 1. I discovered the board doesn't like png because I was told it would not accept that after a few tries. 2. What size should the avatar be? Mine looks bad and dragging the handles just made it worse. I can use Irfan to edit anything to the size needed, once I know what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Try to upload to imgur.com and then choose "From URL". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Liz, I took the liberty of installing another cute little chipmunk avatar for you. Does this one look OK to you? I'll upload the original image on this post, in case you'd like to d-load it to your computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Also, 010520 increased size limit for avatars from 50K to 75K to facilitate sharper images* *Copied from my Admin-Level Change Log 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 1 hour ago, zlim said: What size should the avatar be? 100px X 100px - no larger than 75K in size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share Posted January 5, 2020 (edited) @securitybreech I have images stored on ImageBam and one of things I tried was using a link to my uploaded image. I got an error message. Perhaps it was the size? Not sure because I have images as jpg, png and bmp. @Eric Yes that looks better than what I had. I'll make a note about 100px X 100 px One of the images I tried was 180 x 135; that's why it looked strange. The other which I had marked smchipmunk is 80 x 58. Neither comes close to 75kb in size so that wasn't the problem. I'll get rid of the small one. I downloaded the current avatar so no need to upload it for me. Thanks. Edited January 5, 2020 by zlim downloaded avatar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 I am surprised that yours didn't come over right. I didn't modify mine any after the upgrade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share Posted January 5, 2020 (edited) Well I had another go and it looked strange, yet it is now within the size limits. 100 x 75 I then replaced it with Eric's image, still within the size limits 87 x 87 and it again looks cut off at each end. So what is wrong? I've now edited it again to 100 x 96. Since that's close to 100 x 100, that might be the best I can do. Edited January 5, 2020 by zlim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 I scaled it to 100x85 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Save the above image and then use that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Your current (old chipmunk) image looks fine to me: The image that I uploaded here for you: It's not as sharp as the one I had gotten for you because my original was a BIG image that I reduced in size. That always makes them sharper. If you have a small image and try to increase its size, you get blurriness, but you know all that, I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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