AVATAR PICTURE SIZE

[Wennfred]

Been trying to shrink this picture to upload as my Avatar but seem to not work, 6kb seems tiny to post.

For actual members, the size should be increased some more.


Fred

 

[DNAinaGoodWay]

Yeah, it's tricky, for me anyway, I'm lucky I can email.

I just figured out how to get mine small enough and make it look sharper, it's been fuzzy up til now.

I sent the photo from my phone to my email, and it let me reduce the size to send it. But I still had to reduce it below 90 x 90 pixels, with Office picture manager. Seems better.

I'm sure there's easier ways to do it. Good luck.

 

[AndyH]

I used a program called 'compupic' for years but it's no longer supported and doesn't work in 64 bit operating systems. Today I use the free/opensource app IrfanView.
http://www.irfanview.com/

To make the Avatar, you'll need to crop/resize to meet the physical height/width requirement, then compress (Jpeg quality for one example) to meet the file size limit.

In IrfanView:

Import the image: File/Open (or control-prtscn to screen capture, then in IrfanView Edit/Paste)

Crop: Drag a rubber-band box around the part of the image to become the avatar, then press control and Y to crop.

Resize: Image/Resize-Resample (or Control-R) - you can enter the actual pixel dimensions in the upper left quarter of the screen.

Save/set file size: File/Save As (I use jpeg then select increasingly smaller quality percentages until I drop below the file size limit. If the forum requires another file format, I'll re-open the cropped/sized image and File/Save-As into another format.)

Enjoy!

 

[planet4ever]

Today I use the free/opensource app IrfanView. http://www.irfanview.com/

+1
IrfanView is a great program. I would recommend it for everyone.

Ray

 

[Wennfred]

Thanks, I took the pic from my Iphone and sent it to my Mac, tried every thing and the smallest is 34k I don't seem to have a problem on other forums posting a avatars, 6k is way too small and a pain to resize that small.

I've given up, spent a whole hour messing with it. I will just upload the pic to photo bucket and link it below in my signature.


Fred

 

[DNAinaGoodWay]

Aw Fred, I can feel your frustration, but don't let it defeat you. These computers can be amazing devices sometimes, and other times I could just shoot them. I spent hours once trying to print my Christmas envelopes, and I shouldn't have worried about it, I can do it much quicker by hand. Heck, my grandkids joke that I'll press the wrong key and delete NH, just because I occasionally lose a document or three. Sorry NH, they can usually recover you again.

But you can't put an avatar in by hand, so try this: http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1483" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There's some good leads in there, and people who know how these things work that you can PM.

Anyway, don't let the computers win.