Avatar and Profile Picture

[chet]

I was just trying to add an avatar and profile picture but having troubles.

It says the maximum size for avatar is 150x150 pixels or 10kb
And for profile picture it is 150x150 pixels or 5kb
I just can't find any picture under 10kb, and it looks like all the other users I see around have bigger pictures and alot of them are photos definately over 10kb...

Am I missing something?

 

[Sellaman]

If you have a pic and want it reduce then post it up and I'll reduce it for you and PM it back to you.
Some members have larger avatars because they are paid members.

 

[Nosferatu]

there are also websites that will reduce them for you, just google up "reduce my image to avatar size" and you'll find some.

 

[classwife]

If you have "Paint" in your computer, you can resize pics !

 

[oldsoldier]

chuck@debian:~$ paint
bash: paint: command not found
chuck@debian:~$ bah!

 

[classwife]

ok....LOL !


Picasa is a free download.....

 

[oldsoldier]

hehe Classy i was just being silly.
Im a linux user so I'll recommend gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) as another free alternative.

 

[cleolove]

Chet, also supporting members are allowed larger pictures .. that's why you are seeing some that are bigger!

(Oops, didn't realize sellaman had already given up this info)

 

[marcellus7]

hehe Classy i was just being silly.
Im a linux user so I'll recommend gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) as another free alternative.

+1 for Gimp. Pretty powerful once you learn to use it

 

[chet]

I do have photoshop and I have to shrink it to around 50x50 in order to fit 10kb limit which makes the picture almost unrecognizable.
How about you, marcellus7?
Isn't both your avatar and prof picure over 10kb, and 150x150?

 

[marcellus7]

Im sure they are, which is why I was originally wondering why you were having problems. When I uploaded by avatar and prof pic (last night), it automatically resized them for me.

 

[marcellus7]

Are you uploading them somewhere else and linking them, or are you just uploading?

 

[WomanOfHeart]

Have you tried saving your picture in a different format (bmp, jpeg or gif) to see if that reduces it to under the 10kb limit?

 

[oldsoldier]

I do have photoshop and I have to shrink it to around 50x50 in order to fit 10kb limit which makes the picture almost unrecognizable.
How about you, marcellus7?
Isn't both your avatar and prof picure over 10kb, and 150x150?

his is 3.99K. Generally you can lower the image quality to about 70% (or increase compression ) without losing too much.

 

[chet]

hmm.. let's see if this works..

 

[chet]

oh weird...
Everytime I tried to save the changes it said "Upload of File Failed"
But then when I actually write a post or go to My Profile page the avatar and profile picture all show up fine...