Avatar question(re size)
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 174
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Looks like you got it figured out, unless you're trying to use another avatar.
Two popular, free, photo editing utilities are:
The Gimp
and
IrfanView
Both will allow you to either scale and/or crop photos along with many other features. If you're using a Windows machine you should also have Paint installed which will also do minimal things such as scale photos.
Two popular, free, photo editing utilities are:
The Gimp
and
IrfanView
Both will allow you to either scale and/or crop photos along with many other features. If you're using a Windows machine you should also have Paint installed which will also do minimal things such as scale photos.
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Joined: Jul 2003
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From: Imperial Valley, CA
the reason i have that one is because i saved it off someone else's avatar, i guess i saved it small enough. i tried using the PAINT but i have no clue what size it has to be, and when i did find a resize option, it would only cut the pic to the size.
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 174
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The avatar limitations are:
Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 100 by 100 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller).
You can upload a slightly larger file, and the system will normally be able to adjust it conform to the limitations noted above.
If you want to simply resize an image, you select Stretch/Skew in Paint and enter a lower %. Cropping would be to trim the irrelevant selection (based on user input) of the photo. I don't think Paint can do this, so instead, you need to use the tool selecter to select the part of the image you do wish to retain, then click on Copy and then paste it as a new image. Paint is not the best program to be editing photo utilities, but it can be done.
Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 100 by 100 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller).
You can upload a slightly larger file, and the system will normally be able to adjust it conform to the limitations noted above.
If you want to simply resize an image, you select Stretch/Skew in Paint and enter a lower %. Cropping would be to trim the irrelevant selection (based on user input) of the photo. I don't think Paint can do this, so instead, you need to use the tool selecter to select the part of the image you do wish to retain, then click on Copy and then paste it as a new image. Paint is not the best program to be editing photo utilities, but it can be done.
