help on avatar

Tweety · Post by **Tweety** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:58 am

Hello all! I am having trouble getting a picture onto my avatar. When I try to upload the picture, it says that I have too many pixels. If someone would help me, it would really be appreciated. I have the perfect picture, I just can't get it to upload and I have no idea what to do...

Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

~Tweety~

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:20 pm

avatar instructions wrote:Displays a small graphic image below your details in posts. Only one image can be displayed at a time, its width can be no greater than 110 pixels, the height no greater than 110 pixels, and the file size no more than 31 KB.

What more do you need to know?

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:29 pm

If you are using the Windows operating system, you can edit the image using MSPaint. There is an option "attributes" on the "Image" menu which allows you to change the size, but be warned: this will simply crop your image.

The safest thing to do is first take a copy of your image, and save it somewhere, then make another image the size you want your avatar to be. Just create an image 100x100 pixels, flood fill it with red, (say), and save it as smallred.jpg.

Call up your actual image and paste your smallred on top of it, just to see how far you have to go. Then get rid of it. (the smallred paste-in.) Now select a mask on your whole image (control-a does this) and pull the sides and top in until it's the size you want. When you've done that, change the attributes to 100x100.

Job done!

Actually there are many image editors out there, but this is the one every windows user has.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:41 pm

I use Microsoft Picture It!, which came on my computer. I get the picture the way I want it, save it, and then save another copy, specifying that it needs to be no more than 110 x 110 pixels.

Tweety · Post by **Tweety** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:50 pm

Thank you so much for your reply. I am using a mac, so I don't have MSPaint. I will keep trying. Thank you for helping though, now I have an idea of what I need to do to the image...

~Tweety~

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:53 pm

I feared as much.

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:06 pm

do a search of "free avatars" there are quite a few to choose from. some of them will be too big too, you just have to check.

Tweety · Post by **Tweety** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:23 pm

mutepointe- you have just made me very happy. I went to a free avatar website (as you suggested) and there were hundreds of the kind I wanted. Thank you so much!

~Tweety~

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:53 pm

Tweety wrote:mutepointe- you have just made me very happy. I went to a free avatar website (as you suggested) and there were hundreds of the kind I wanted. Thank you so much!

~Tweety~

Yipes! Gorgeous! But... shouldn't you change your user name to something more along the lines of "Here, Tweety, tweety.." or "Tweety's bane", or sumsuch?

Tweety · Post by **Tweety** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:18 pm

Thanks for the advice anniemcu. Dad was the one who thought of the name. I like it, it's short and sweet. I really liked that picture when I found it and didn't really worry about how it would be with the name. I will admit, it is kind of ironic that I would choose that picture for Tweety...

~Tweety~

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:27 pm

You're most very welcome. For awhile there were quite a few white cat avatars on this site. Your cat has the best eyes. Now you need to come up with an equally cool signature line.

Tweety · Post by **Tweety** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:13 pm

What do you think of this signature?

~Tweety~

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:20 pm

Now you're just trying to make your Dad cry. Very nice.