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You can now upload an avatar to the forums instead of hosting it on a remote site. Go to your profile to upload a picture (100 x 100 pixels, 30KB maximum).
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Just testing to see if my avatar works properly. I'm not much good with these things :D
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It's a bit blurred, any tips on how I can fix that? I had to resize the photo because it was really big, perhaps that's why?
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Mollybob wrote:It's a bit blurred, any tips on how I can fix that? I had to resize the photo because it was really big, perhaps that's why?

Did you resize by altering the pixels? If you just alter the size by cm/ins, it gets a bit crammed up.

Keith can explain it far more eloquently! :wink:
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Yes, I just altered the pixels, but it took me a long time to work out how to do that. I've been trying to create my avatar for ages :oops:
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You've got the resizing part sorted out okay! There are two things you could do here. Resize the original again (ie, start over) and when you go to save it as a jpg, this time check what options you have for quality. For an image this small it's worth setting it to 100% quality (or zero compression). Also, find a "sharpen" tool in your graphics program. There's probably one there somewhere!
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Post by Mollybob »

Thanks Keith. I didn't have time to try out your advice until today. It seems to have worked :D
It was the "zero compression" bit that did it!
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Ah, zero compression, yes -- if only more people would use zero compression the world would be a better place. :)

Your avatar look great!
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How do you resize an avatar?
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By using a resizing program!
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Wassat?
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Or you can use Keith's excellent simplepictureresize.com. Make sure your avatar's dimensions do not exceed 100 x 100 pixels.
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Post by Ming »

Hey, that's a great site!! :D
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Thanks for that, Matt (and Keith!). That's incredible - I shall use that all the time now. Much easier than Microsoft Picture It.
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