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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.

It's a setting we need to change. However, 120x120 is a fairly standard size. Why would you want to change it?

Because shrinking an image to that size leaves all sorts of artifacts.

Perhaps post an example pre-and post-conversion? I suspect the board will resize the image anyway, automatically.

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.

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.

That would be my best guess as to what was going on.

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

I seem to have mixed luck with image resizing programs.

It's small in size, but you can even get .gifs with spec.