The problem with Avatars...
 

Every time I decide to change my avatar I make it, make it small, put it on photobucket, try to put it on here only to be told the remote file is too large. So I make it smaller and smaller until in the end, this is what I ender up with.


http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...eatfurby-3.jpg

and it was still too big. Do any of you lot have this problem? I know some of you don't because you regularly change your avatar to something pretty complicated like the one __V__ had at halloween time. How do you do it?

I wanted to use my own avatar.

By the time you get it small enought, you need a microscope to see it!

AND THEN IT IS TOO DAMNED BIG!

I usually am not a quitter but in this instance I GIVE UP!

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...ristocrat2.jpg


Countess Marya

I had the same problem... What are we doing wrong?

Ditto. I'm thinking of messing around with the file types.

OK, here is how I did it.

1. Open a photo/picture in Photoshop.

If you don't have Photoshop, there is a step 0.5 or something :)

2. Crop the image so that you just have the part of the image that you want to use for your avatar.

3. Choose to "Save for web"

4. Set the number of pixels in size that you want you avatar to be (note that HDC has restrictions on the pixel size of an avatar)

5. Choose to save as a JPEG

6. Then set the quality of the JPEG until you get a file that fits the size contraints of an HDC avatar.

7. Save it

8. Go to HDC and change your avatar. Upload the image to HDC (or use photobucket etc but you can upload directly from your computer to HDC which is easier).

Any questions?

the avatar restreictions are pretty ridiculous, I wish I hadn't changed my nice big avatar.

Mine was from the old format,everytime i change it i fuck it up.

I feel your pain. It took me forever to learn how to create an avatar. Sadly, I don't remember how I did my avatar. So, I'm of no help. I just wanted you to know you're not the only one.

When I first joined it was really really simple. You upload an image and it was done. But then they changed the whole website and since then...I'm sorry, I just got something in my eye.

I just got this as an error message haha

"Your file of 2.4 KB bytes exceeds the forum's limit of 2.4 KB for this filetype."

take two. Edit: Got it. Thanks for the help.

how do you get photoshop?

I'd like to know as well. Many people have been mentioning this too me for years now, but I don't know how to get it. Sorry if I got your hopes up for an answer ferret.

don't worry about it. On microsoft paint it wont let me save to web.

Not a problem. Love the new avatar BTW.


To those who are asking how you get Photoshop - it is a commercial program (ie buy it from a shop). I think you can download a free trial from Adobe's website ( www.adobe.com ).

There are probably other programs that do the same thing (although I haven't tried them).

There is a free program called GIMP ( www.gimp.org ) that is supposed to be very close to Photoshop in functionality. There is even a version called GIMPshop that has a similar user interface to Photoshop.

Although I haven't tried, what you need is a paint or image editing program that will let you specify the pixel dimensions of your picture, and then alter the quailty of JPEG that you are saving.

Thanks ManchestrMorgue. I'm going to try the Gimp because it's free and tell you how it is.

so it's agreed. YJ plays around with gimp and tells us how it was.

:D

Well, I'm having trouble downloading it, but I'll figure it out. If not, then I'll pass the torch to you ferret. Deal?

i never liked GIMP. I use paint.net. It's free aswell, and compact. Has a site full of tutorials too.

I haven't tried paint.net - will it allow you to specify pixel dimensions and JPEG quality? If it does, it would be quite suitable.

I am sure a number of the free image editing programs would do the job - it's not a high-end function. But I am not sure if/how they would do it as my experience has been with Photoshop.

If you guys are really stuck, I would be happy to install a free program on my computer and work out how to do it, and post instructions.

So see how you go and if there is no joy, let me know.

yeh, as soon as I can choose the number of pixels I'll be fine.

Paint.net has a resize function where you can specify the pixel dimensions and when you save as a jpeg you can choose the quality.

PAINT.NET HAS WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


To get paint.net go on google, search paint.net download, go to the first one on the list, then follow the instructions.

To redo the pixels go to image, click resize then set the pixels. To get it as the right amounth of KB, Save it and it will ask you quality. You can then set the amount of KB! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You will definetely get a part in HC the movie part 7ero now Macabre!

awesome. :D