Avatar Restrictions
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Avatar Restrictions
Is there a way of relaxing the restrictions for avatars?
120x120 pixels, and 64KB makes life very difficult indeed.
If I compress the image so that it fits into those restrictions, it looks like gray mush.
120x120 pixels, and 64KB makes life very difficult indeed.
If I compress the image so that it fits into those restrictions, it looks like gray mush.
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Re: Avatar Restrictions
It's a setting we need to change. However, 120x120 is a fairly standard size. Why would you want to change it?
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Re: Avatar Restrictions
Because shrinking an image to that size leaves all sorts of artifacts.
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Re: Avatar Restrictions
Perhaps post an example pre-and post-conversion? I suspect the board will resize the image anyway, automatically.
Re: Avatar Restrictions
Depends on the resampling algorithm you use. MS paint and the like use a nearest neighbour, which makes it look like shit. Use a bilinear or cubic algorithm. GIMP has that.
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Re: Avatar Restrictions
That would be my best guess as to what was going on.Leeward wrote:Depends on the resampling algorithm you use. MS paint and the like use a nearest neighbour, which makes it look like shit. Use a bilinear or cubic algorithm. GIMP has that.
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Re: Avatar Restrictions
if you use an online converter like pic resize.com or whatever it was called it keep the quality quite well... that's what I use
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Re: Avatar Restrictions
I seem to have mixed luck with image resizing programs.
Re: Avatar Restrictions
It's small in size, but you can even get .gifs with spec.