Avatars - Need Help?

[Clay]

I noticed that some people are having troubles getting their avatars working properly. If this describes you .. just post a message in here, and I'll help you fix it up.

Please remember that they must be 55 x 55 pixels max and under 20kb. (gif or jpg preferred) Other than that .. its just a matter of clicking some buttons.

I'm here to help

[kolfacekilla]

i think its working nicely for me, though i hope its ok we don't all have actual photos of ourselves. like mine for instant, i'm actually a rather light shade of blue, not green. dude, i wish i was this green! man, the ladies, they'd come a runnin.

but as they say, life ain't always peaches and sunny rocks for me to bask on. sometimes, you just gotta tuck your head inside your thickly armored shell and keep truckin.

[Clay]

No worries .. no one ever said it had to be a photo of yourself

Its nice to see what people look like on the other end tho.

[Clay]

Since there are so many people online right now .. I figured I'd bring this to the top and offer my services!

[Sash]

Clay, I saw that you fixed it so that my avatar appeared on the Edit Profile, but I uploaded a new one in its stead, and though it said the upload was successful, I get a "no image" box, even after loggin in & out, refreshing, etc.

[Clay]

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On 2002-06-13 14:12, Sash wrote:
Clay, I saw that you fixed it so that my avatar appeared on the Edit Profile, but I uploaded a new one in its stead, and though it said the upload was successful, I get a "no image" box, even after loggin in & out, refreshing, etc.



Hey Sash,

I'm not sure what program you are using to save your image file... but it is saving them in a jpg format that is not supported on the web.

SO .. I fixed it .. here's how I did it..

I opened up your file (8kb) in Paint Shop Pro .. and resaved it as a jpg. Now its 1.7kb and works.



I'm still trying to understand jpg's .. I know that there are different types of encoding, but I'm not an expert. Anyone on here know anything about this?

[Sash]

Clay, I use ... nobody laugh... Photoshop 3.0 (Mac)... about as current as the Allosaurus. thanks for the assistance. Wow, my own avatar. That's me in Patagonia.

[mike king]

i haven’t been able to make it work
i’ve tried about 4 times
maybe the world is better off not knowing what i look like

[Clay]

Hey Mike,

You are all fixed up now. Looks like the same problem (a weird type of jpg file).

I opened up your picture and re-saved it. It went from 7kb down to 1kb .. and now it works.

Can anyone explain the different types of jpgs to me???

[rotodesign]

It's probably a matter of compression -- Photoshop allows you to save jpegs at different levels of compression. More compression=smaller file, lower res; Less compression=larger file, higher res. I'm not sure what the cutoff is, but if the jpegs aren't compressed enough, the browser won't display them. You'll just get a red "X," though the same file can be opened in Photoshop again with no problems.