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Title: my custom avatar is too big
Post by: krick on April 03, 2006, 11:55:00 pm

I'm using a custom avatar 100x100 pixels...

(http://mame.3feetunder.com/avatars/stinkoman.gif)

But for some reason, when I load it up here in the board, it gets stretched to 120x120 pixels and looks crappy.
<---------- see my user info to the left

1) why does this happen?

2) Is there some way to stop it?

Title: Re: my custom avatar is too big
Post by: Kremmit on April 04, 2006, 02:32:06 am

You could go to gifworks.com and add 10 white pixels to each side.

Title: Re: my custom avatar is too big
Post by: krick on April 04, 2006, 09:59:19 am

Quote from: Kremmit on April 04, 2006, 02:32:06 am

You could go to gifworks.com and add 10 white pixels to each side.

It doesn't appear to give me that option.  It has a resize option but no "enlarge canvas" or "add borders" options that I can find.

Grrr...   I'll have to dig up the tools that I used to originally make it.  I had a tool that turns a flash animation into an AVI.  Then I used a different tool to convert the AVI into an animated GIF.  Then after much optimization to reduce the color depth, I ended up with what you see here.

For a custom avatar, the forum should just let you have whatever size avatar you want as long as it's 120x120 or less, rather than scaling everything up to 120x120.

Title: Re: my custom avatar is too big
Post by: saint on April 04, 2006, 10:51:26 am

Fixt, I think.  I just uploaded it to the forum intsead of hot-linking it. Not sure what the issue was with linking it but it looks correct to me now?

Title: Re: my custom avatar is too big
Post by: krick on April 04, 2006, 10:54:20 am

Quote from: saint on April 04, 2006, 10:51:26 am

Fixt, I think.  I just uploaded it to the forum intsead of hot-linking it. Not sure what the issue was with linking it but it looks correct to me now?

Yep. That fixed it.

I tried uploading it a while back and I think it was over the size limit or something so I just linked to it instead.