gearheads78

So I just changed my avatar and its coming out tiny. The one I had before was bigger and a bunch of others here is bigger. What am I doing wrong?

oldsguybry

give it some Viagra

lansing

Or may I call you D!(k?

Why do you think we all drive these HUGE Oldsmobile's anyway's?!?! Compensating? perhaps..........?!?

Oh wait, you're talking pictures...now I get it......sorry......I don't know.....just disregard......really........never mind.........gotta go..

yzzerdd

It has to be 140x140 OR 19.5KB, whichever is smaller. Open the picture using Microsoft Paint, or whatever you use to edit pictures. Toy around with the attributes of the image, trying to get it to fit those parameters. Also, make sure you save as either .jpg or .jpeg, NOT .bit.

If all else fails, if you send me the picture, I may be able to get it to the proper specifications.

--Jack

gearheads78

That the thing I don't understand. The original image is only 130pix wide. It keeps shrinking it down to 80pix wide and that is just to small.

snowballs442

Not trying to change the subject. well ok trying to change the subject...those wheels really look good on the wagon. Do we get to see more pictures?

yzzerdd

What is the size of the original, in terms of disk space, not resolution? Right click on the picture, click properties, and it should tell you the size in KB of the file.

--Jack

gearheads78

11338 bytes

yzzerdd

Which is roughly 11KB. Hmm. interesting. It's all well within the forum limits. Only thing I can think of is to try submitting a full-size picture as your avatar and letting the forum convert it down. That's what I did with mine, instead of shrinking it myself. Otherwise, it would appear as if I can be of no further help on this topic.

--Jack

Coltonis

I did a quick test and poked the server a bit. And found that it is actually serving up an image that is 80px x 80px.

So that is almost positively what is getting saved to the server. Its possible yet unlikely that the resizer doo-mahicky that runs when uploading a pic is broken only for you (It worked properly for my test just now).

I would be much more suspect of how/what you are using to resize the image on your computer. Are you just using MS Paint? Or some other tool? I have ran into crappy graphics programs simply lying to me about what size things were.

Might try the tool that I use for all my images; its a Microsoft XP PowerToy called Image Resizer.

You can find it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx (dl link is right side of that page toward the bottom)

Just install it then right click on any image file and there will be a new "Resize Pictures" option... very simple to use and the most reliable tool I have come across.