View Full Version : Shrink a pic to avatar size?
It's hardly very bushcrafty but was hoping someone could tell me how to shrink a picture to use as an avatar. Bit of a technophobe when it comes to such things!!
Have a look in User CP or whatever it is called these days. You can upload the picture from your 'puter and it automatically does it for you.
bikething
17-07-2008, 21:26
Have a look in User CP or whatever it is called these days. You can upload the picture from your 'puter and it automatically does it for you.
Don't think it resizes it for you.....
Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 100 by 100 pixels or 58.6 KB (whichever is smaller).
If you can email it to me I'll have a go at squishing it :)
Well, the burning ring of fire was bigger than that, and I didn't do anything other than stick it on the site through the browse option in avatars.
bikething
17-07-2008, 21:45
Must be a new feature... I had to have several goes at tweaking mine to get it to fit the size restriction :confused:
(though that was a while ago, before the big makeover)
Download this resizing tool.. http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm You have to select custom size and then you can make your picture go down to a 100x100 pixel size..
bikething
17-07-2008, 21:54
Looks like Spam's right! :o
the pony was 1924 x 1924 pixels and 262 KB when I uploaded it
now, where did I store my old avatar :confused:
Thanks Spam. Resizing thing seems to have done its self without me doing anything.
S'cool. Y'all owe me one million dollars each for the info though!
Next question!
:D
bikething
17-07-2008, 22:20
Next question!
:D
OK, how come you're posting in threads when according to my screen you're not online ???:p
Because of my before now unknown Double O status. :naughty: I have a licence to talk rubbish and generally cause confusion and chaos! :D
bikething
17-07-2008, 22:32
I have a licence to talk rubbish and generally cause confusion and chaos! :D
and you do it SOOOOOOO well ! :D
... and there was i thinking you'd turned on 'invisible mode' in the user CP :rolleyes:
Not quite the same problem:
I can resize the image (although reading the thread that don't sound like it's important) and I've tried different file formats but I keep getting the same message:
Error occurred during the moving of the uploaded file.
Any ideas?
Diligence
03-10-2008, 15:17
http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/
this one works good for me...
D
Hmmmm....
It dosen't for me - thanks for the response though Diligence
Diligence
05-10-2008, 05:56
Really? What's the problem?...I in fact used that software to create my current avatar on BCUK.....
D
I think you can even do it on paint
Not sure if it was user error or what, however I have options on my profile which I swear weren't there before, and one of them is edit avatar (the page I was trying to do it on before I nw can't find) and it appears to have worked - this the first post scince uploading...
Thanks for your assistance everyone.