View new posts | View your posts Avatars and Signature Rules - Updated Oct 2012.

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Alright, I checked it myself and it's over in size but the pixels are way under. Can anyone give this idiot some advice. I've scaled down the image in GIMP but it's still over.

Ok, so I have tried using gimp and microsoft picture manager. I have uploaded using imageshack. I have compressed, resized...everything.

I always get the pixels correct, but the file size is ALWAYS in the 20 - 23kb area. What the hell?

I've never used GIMP.

Is imageshack recompressing the image? Is the file you are uploading to imageshack under the limit? Properly compressed images should really only be 5-6kb.

I compress the image using microsoft picture manager and it says "estimated size after compression 6kb" or thereabout, but when I save it and check properties, it's 20kbs or more.

I am baffled by technology apparently.

Oh, and in imageshack, I hit resize to avatar and it comes out to be 17kb.

I will keep trying.

AJ, it's now 15.42kb. Should I keep trying or is that acceptable?

DONE! 6.35 KB and 91 x 125 pixels. Boo ya!

Yep. Whatever you did, worked.

Now to make all avatars Boxxy again.

OH NOES

Dang.. I missed the Boxxy mayhem..

Is there any reason some members have animated avatars or signature images? I thought those weren't allowed.

Oh, I was wondering what it could've been wrong with my avatar since it looked like disappeared in thin air, then I noticed it: yes, the image was 125 x 125. . . But it was also 25 Kb ^^;
Anyway, eventually all what I had to do had been changing it from a "png" to a "jpg"; in fact, now it should be less than 5 Kb

This post was deleted by AJ Quick on November 21st, 2010, 12:29 am.

hopefully my avatar is now legal, i thought my last one was, but wasnt, if it isnt im sorry, i think it is 14.4m and is smaller than 125 x 125

yeesh... my 17KB avatar was removed. We must have a large population of dial-up users! Oh well... reduced the JPEG quality a bit, down under 10KB now.

Some of the illegal animated pony avatars really bog down the loading of pages. I realize it's a big joke/meme going around right now, so it'll probably pass.

My 'Illegal" animated "meme" is well under the rules of size and weight. even if animate, if an image stays inside the legal boundaries there should not be a problem with page loading. it is after all the same size and same weight as non animated ones and shouldn't post a problem.

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and I had to open my big mouth and have it removed. LOL

test post.

test post 2. Sorry. I have never played with avatars or signatures before.

You don't need to post tests.

Your avatar and signature will update in every post you have made.

Does anyone know a website to where i can get a exact 125x125 avatar pic? Imageshack is close but not good enough for me

If you have photoshop you can resize a picturee to fit your needs.
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Or if you want PM your picture and I'll shrink it down for you. I have Photoshop and that's how I got mine to meet the requirements.

I used photobucket for my Thing-Fish avatar. I can edit from the site and then get the links to post it wherever.

When I'm not on my main computer, I use Pixlr. It's an online photo editor, no download required. Might be good for those of you who don't have photoshop or paintshop.

http://pixlr.com/editor/

OK, call me stupid, but how do you upload avatars on here? I've been trying to figure it out, but I still don't get it.....I had an avatar, but it was my Facebook profile pic, and I didn't want to use that so I removed it. But I want to upload an avatar....

You need to use an image hosting website, then get the image URL and put it in the Upload box here: ucp.php?i=profile&mode=avatar

For example my image URL is http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8199/breezyav.jpg. You can usually get this when you (if running on Firefox) right click the image and go to "Copy Image Location"

Most commonly used websites to host images are Imageshack and Photobucket.

Im having issues with my avatar showing as a broken image. I pasted the link from my photobucket and when I leave the dimensions blank it says it cannot determine the dimensions of the image. However, when I paste the link and enter the dimensions, the image APPEARS to have uploaded, but it will not show. The image is a 14kb .png. Whats the deal?

Are we allowed just to NOT have an avatar? Is that okay? If it is, Ill go that route.

yeah mine got deleted too. it was the logo (sans nipples) from the gb porn parody. oh well.

Well I was gonna change it soon but now I have this it's 6 kb - 122 x 55 under the right size requirements and size now