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Post by jorgy » Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:54 pm

Hi all

Can I ask if Dean and others who uploaded avatars *really* reduced their images to "6kib" before uploading???

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Post by Ciaran » Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:05 pm

Is that what its saying, that they're limited to 6kb?

Shouldn't be the case....

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Post by Dean » Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:47 pm

Hi George

I dont know, but i had to reduce it to the point it didnt show the whole picture and it was all distorted so it had to be a realy tiny file size, much smaller than usual anyway.

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Post by Ciaran » Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:25 pm

Hi guys,

For the first few days the forum was setup, the avatar limit was left set to the default (pathetically small) 60x60. I increased that to 160x160, but if you uploaded it at the smaller size you'll need to redo it to have it use the larger one.

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Post by Dean » Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:22 pm

yep thats better :D

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Post by CitroJim » Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:11 pm

Funnily enough, I can't upload one and get an error back :o

I can only get one to display by linking to one on my webserver...
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Post by Ciaran » Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:14 pm

What error you getting Jim?

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Post by jorgy » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:10 pm

Ciaran wrote:Is that what its saying, that they're limited to 6kb?

Shouldn't be the case....

Ciarán
Yes, it says 160x160 or 6kib. The smallest image I could find on my pc was 26kib!

But I understand if it's for the interest of economy in the forum.

Now have to download some software that can resize images...

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Post by Dean » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:20 pm

George if your on flicker you can link the avatar off site and paste the url in with the thumbnail size, worked for me, and its quick!!!!

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Post by Ciaran » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:24 pm

Hi George,

The 160 is defs the case, but the max filesize is set to 15kb rather than 6 (though 6 was the original default).

If you need a quick image resize, post the pic here and one of us would be happy to do it for you, or you could get the quick and easy 'image resize tool' for Windows XP here.
(There are also several other useful utilities here.

That image resizer allows you to just right-click on any image in Windows explorer, and choose 'Resize pictures' from the menu. Then you can select required dimensions, proportions etc, and off it goes, done in two seconds.

Ciarán

/EDIT: Sorry, I must've been typing that as Dean was posting his :)

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