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Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by Pointy Kitty » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:27 pm

Were the old size limits for avatars too large? I tried to upload the same avatar I was using on the old site, and it's too large for the restrictions on this one.

90px and 6kb is pretty small. My old one was the standard 100x100px and 6.7kb, so it's too big.

It's totally not a big deal for me to just shrink it down, I'm just wondering why make the change? :?:

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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by CancerHybrid » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:45 pm

i shrunk my old avatar down to 67x90 and it still wont work for this site. how do i make it under 6kb :?:
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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by LittlePinkFaery » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:09 pm

you will need to shrink you avatar- you need to turn down the quality of it and save it as a jpg on your desktop.

I can only tell you how to do it on a mac!

save to desktop

open it is preview

save as

it will give you an option to reduce quality- knock it down to at least half

save as jpg


sorry I can't help you with a pc but there must be a way of doing it!

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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by Spooki » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:16 pm

if anyone needs an avatar shrunk to meet the file size i can do it for you. just send me a PM or contact me on AIM/ YIM.

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you can also download irfan view to change file type, quality and do basic image editing yourself. while saving the image it won't tell you file size but if you go to open the image you just saved in irfan view the image data will be in the preview, or if you open the file it will be at the bottom. you can just keep resaving it with the same name until you get the size low enough by lowering the JPG quality.
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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by LittlePinkFaery » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:06 pm

thank you!

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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by twigletstar » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:28 pm

Also if you save it as a .gif file it'll be about 1/4 of the original file size if you had it saved as a .jpg file :)

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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by Elektromutant » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:51 pm

I'm struggling alot with the 6kb avatar file limit. Every time I shrink the image it gets bigger. I have 100x100 at 3.2kb - as soon as I resize it to 90x90 it goes to 33.3kb. WTF?

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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by dreadstarrs » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:16 pm

it took me like,100 times to finally get it. once i saved as a GIF though it worked fine
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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by bingeandpurge » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:24 pm

I can't get it small enough no matter what I do.
I'm on a Mac, and I reduced size & quality in Photoshop then saved it as jpg in Preview and the smallest I could get it was 8k. In fact, my icon for DA is 8k as well and it's half the size.
Tried saving it as a gif, and that bumped it up to 12k! And this is all with the quality set so low you can barely see it!

I guess an icon and I are not meant to be. :)
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Post by Jane Doe » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:30 pm

I'm having the same issue on my Mac - I can't get it under 8
I'll keep working at it though
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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by Magdalena » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:31 pm

Having major trouble myself with this. :?

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Post by Jane Doe » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:35 pm

Oh, thanks for the tip littlepinkfaery.
It worked for me :)
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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by Spooki » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:49 pm

twigletstar wrote:Also if you save it as a .gif file it'll be about 1/4 of the original file size if you had it saved as a .jpg file :)
it depends more on quality, if i get my icon with similar quality as a .gif it's bigger than it is now as a .jpg.

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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by Pointy Kitty » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:30 pm

littlepinkfaery wrote:you will need to shrink you avatar- you need to turn down the quality of it and save it as a jpg on your desktop.
This is the part that was confusing me. Not the act of shrinking an image, but the fact that on a forum all about awesome hair and showing pictures of ourselves with awesome hair, we have to have tiny low-rez images for avatars.

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Post by doclocks » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:53 pm

I don't know if this will be helpful, but mine is 90x90 at 72 dpi saved as a jpg. :?
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Post by tazzyface » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:42 am

I had a bit of trouble with mine. I saved it as a .gif, then went to HERE and used the compression tool. It worked for me :D
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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by LittlePinkFaery » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:05 am

Jane Doe wrote:Oh, thanks for the tip littlepinkfaery.
It worked for me :)
ah you must be a mac girl- good choice ! LOL So much easier on a mac!

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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by LittlePinkFaery » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:06 am

Pointy Kitty wrote:
littlepinkfaery wrote:you will need to shrink you avatar- you need to turn down the quality of it and save it as a jpg on your desktop.
This is the part that was confusing me. Not the act of shrinking an image, but the fact that on a forum all about awesome hair and showing pictures of ourselves with awesome hair, we have to have tiny low-rez images for avatars.
well no restrictions in the gallery!

peoples pictures are still clear- but I agree it does seem pretty dififcult!

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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by ClaireCalavera » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:08 pm

I did mine in photoshop, but what is interesting is, whenever I tried to upload it as a .gif, it wouldn't work? Did it as a jpg and it was fine, but didn't like gifs... Strange. Especially as the gif was a smaller file size than the jpg lol! :roll:
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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by starlight » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:08 pm

if you have photoshop, put it in there and then 'save for web'.. it'll tell you the file size at the bottom and preview the quality.

if anyone's struggling, feel free to pm me your pic and i'll shrink it for ya :)

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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by doclocks » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:26 am

I upped the avatar size so it should work for most people now.
It's a 10KB max and a 90x90 image size.

Let me know if that works!
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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by Gorey » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:50 pm

when i get mine small enough dimention wise it says its to large in quality i guess
can we have it at 100x100? sence thats generally the standard for avatars?
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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by CherryLex » Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:58 pm

I'm still having trouble... my husband & I both couldn't figure it out last night and we got mad at the computer & had to walk away, lol.
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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by Miss Liberty » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:14 pm

CherryLex, I fiddled with mine and eventually got it. If you want to send yours to me I'll give it my best shot.

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Re: Can't use same avatar as old site?

Post by RxQueen » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:23 pm

can't say I've ever had so much trouble putting an avatar up, this board is particularly picky!!

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