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How do you get your avatars to work?

Postby underwear ninja » Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:49 am

It seems that no matter how small I make my icon, no matter how little color I use, no matter what file type, etc... I can NEVER get my avatar to be a small enough file size (10kb or whatever)to work on these forums! Its really getting on my nerves, as an avatar would make it easier to snoop out for my posts in larger/cramped threads (used to be I'd just look for my faction symbol- people rarely used G2 autobot)

What do you guys do to get the avatars to the right file size?
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Re: How do you get your avatars to work?

Postby Bun-Bun » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:32 am

underwear ninja wrote:It seems that no matter how small I make my icon, no matter how little color I use, no matter what file type, etc... I can NEVER get my avatar to be a small enough file size (10kb or whatever)to work on these forums! Its really getting on my nerves, as an avatar would make it easier to snoop out for my posts in larger/cramped threads (used to be I'd just look for my faction symbol- people rarely used G2 autobot)

What do you guys do to get the avatars to the right file size?


Use Photoshop.

There is an option to optimize a picture to a certain file size.
Here's a tutorial
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Re: How do you get your avatars to work?

Postby underwear ninja » Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:21 am

Ah. Thank you- I got my new icon up and it looks good, wouldn't you think? (I drew it myself too)
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Re: How do you get your avatars to work?

Postby Bun-Bun » Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:32 am

:lol: is that suposed to be womens underwear on his head? :lol:
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Re: How do you get your avatars to work?

Postby underwear ninja » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:31 am

Bun-Bun wrote::lol: is that suposed to be womens underwear on his head? :lol:


Why yes, yes it is. I am an underwear ninja afterall, and you can't find more comfy headgear than silk :D
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Re: How do you get your avatars to work?

Postby Shadowman » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:29 pm

Motto: "May God have mercy on my enemies, because I sure as hell won't."
You'll need an Ionic Compressor Device, with nuclear-digital transfer capabilities. Be careful, though, you're going to have to reroute power from every power-plant on Earth. Put on a full-body lead-trinium-kevlar mesh suit, then flip the device on. But do NOT look directly into the divide as it does it's thing, unless you want your entire frontal lobe fried like a chicken.

When the device finishes stealing light itself, wire your computer to the device, but be sure the device is fully powered down. (A single Toshiba laptop has been known to vaporize entire office buildings) When you put the image onto your computer, it may be so big your computer will vomit data. If you work fast enough, you can compress it down to a good size.

Hey, even I can get sick of writing feux-Lovecraft!

But in the sense of reality, Bun-bun's suggestion of photoshop is valid.
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Re: How do you get your avatars to work?

Postby NiteStar » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:45 pm

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Use picresize.com 3.0 and use the after you upload the pic go down to
"select quality". it will give you four to choose from, one of them should be less than 10KB. Then just drag that one to your desktop.
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Re: How do you get your avatars to work?

Postby Shadowman » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:26 am

Motto: "May God have mercy on my enemies, because I sure as hell won't."
NiteStar wrote:Use picresize.com 3.0 and use the after you upload the pic go down to
"select quality". it will give you four to choose from, one of them should be less than 10KB. Then just drag that one to your desktop.


You need a website to resize images? I have four programs for that, two of which come standard, and one of which I just found out about.

(PS, it's awesome.)
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Re: How do you get your avatars to work?

Postby Nightracer GT » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:06 am

Motto: "If it feels so good, it can't be wrong."
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Shadowman wrote:You'll need an Ionic Compressor Device, with nuclear-digital transfer capabilities. Be careful, though, you're going to have to reroute power from every power-plant on Earth. Put on a full-body lead-trinium-kevlar mesh suit, then flip the device on. But do NOT look directly into the divide as it does it's thing, unless you want your entire frontal lobe fried like a chicken.

When the device finishes stealing light itself, wire your computer to the device, but be sure the device is fully powered down. (A single Toshiba laptop has been known to vaporize entire office buildings) When you put the image onto your computer, it may be so big your computer will vomit data. If you work fast enough, you can compress it down to a good size.

Hey, even I can get sick of writing feux-Lovecraft!

But in the sense of reality, Bun-bun's suggestion of photoshop is valid.


I never get sick of Lovecraft.


The late professor Arthur Maxwell of Providence Rhode Island died screaming in an insane asylum late last night. During his last lecture on making avatars in photoshop, he suddenly stopped dead and started screaming chtuluh ryel fatghn!!!! I drove to his estate today on official legal business of Miskatonic University and found a mysterious letter in an old pile of papers at the bottom of a locked drawer in a forgotten chest at the back of the attic under the beetling eaves and mysterious Gambrel rooftops of his Georgian home.

It is dated November 13, 1895 from a one Herbert Ward, an antartic explorer who died screaming in an insane asylum. The letter talks about the mysterious plateau of Leng which is higher than Mt. Everest. He refuses to even detail what he found there, but I suspect the professor hid this letter away from even himself. He claims that he was haunted by nightmares for years afterward, in which he saw strange geometrical shapes that are impossible in nature and glimpsed eldritch and cyclopean vistas never meant for the human eye.

Now I find myself digging in an old grave in a forgotten cemetary, the howl of a damnable hound getting ever closer and all the while, looming over me is the moldering family manor of an ancient and cursed hill family that has inbred itself into a pale and sightless race.

I have hid the coffin lid, but when I pry it open I see the horrible truth, and I fear I will die screaming in an insane asylum.



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Re: How do you get your avatars to work?

Postby NiteStar » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:05 am

Weapon: Null-Ray Rifle
Shadowman wrote:
NiteStar wrote:Use picresize.com 3.0 and use the after you upload the pic go down to
"select quality". it will give you four to choose from, one of them should be less than 10KB. Then just drag that one to your desktop.


You need a website to resize images? I have four programs for that, two of which come standard, and one of which I just found out about.

(PS, it's awesome.)


No i dont actually, but I know the problem he's talking about , trying get the pic under 10KB. I use Photoshop and iPhoto and the smallest I could get was 11KB.It drove me nuts!There arent too many occurances where you a need pic under 10Kb( thats so small) So that website i found to be a quick to solution to a Minute problem.
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