Avatar Photo Formatting?

[lizzie]

Mine is 225 pixels wide by 305 tall.

Thanks Jeff! I have a square photo that’s the same length as its width, wondering how do I get that to fit inside the allowed space here?

Resize......I have found that to have the entire photo show on the home page, it must be a very small photo.
(as an example....the photo I use on this site is only 21.4 kb)

[Privateer]

Uploaded a test pattern that was 300x300
It shows up as 200 wide x 300 tall.
Each square in the test pattern is 25 pixels square.
So i'd say max size is 200 X 300

I checked the source files for the forum and I see there is an automatic scale setting.
Didn't find if it's set to default nor any reference to what default would be.
I did see that should you upload a larger then 200X300 image then the server eats resources to resize.

[mrbulk]

Mine is 225 pixels wide by 305 tall.

Thanks Jeff! I have a square photo that’s the same length as its width, wondering how do I get that to fit inside the allowed space here?

Resize......I have found that to have the entire photo show on the home page, it must be a very small photo.
(as an example....the photo I use on this site is only 21.4 kb)

Thank you kindly Liz! But to tell the truth my (new) avatar that I just changed to, is smaller at only 18 kb, yet it kept cutting off most of it on the right so I finally just turned it sideways so it is now tall and skinny and .. it woiked! 

[Privateer]

What you can see with this test pattern is a very slight border around the image.
Part of the CSS coding from examining the source.

[mrbulk]

What you can see with this test pattern is a very slight border around the image.
Part of the CSS coding from examining the source.

Hey Jeff so how much further to the right do those numbers run? All the way down to zero? Just trying to figure out how much the picture cuts off on the right.

[Wayne52]

The size of my avatar is 11.2kB. 

[Privateer]

What you can see with this test pattern is a very slight border around the image.
Part of the CSS coding from examining the source.

Hey Jeff so how much further to the right do those numbers run? All the way down to zero? Just trying to figure out how much the picture cuts off on the right.

If you right click on that image and select save image?
It will down load as a 300X300 image.
the software cuts off the right side of the image.
So 9, 1, 2, 3 is cut off.

[Chris USA]

I tried it yesterday and it did not work me. I am pretty computer dumb, but I finally did resize some pics to post here (hot peppers/eating thread)

At any rate,.... is it impossible for a web site to have the ability to re-size (whatever) size pics coming into the site (so that it works for that site),... automatically?

Seems like that would save a whole lot of people,.. a whole lot of hassle.

[Stinger177]

As Mike (Bicycleman) showed, the Avatar will automatically crop (or chop off) some of the right hand side of the pic, so when you crop the pic, cheat the main image to the left. I had to mess for a while to get my squirrel centered.

This really is rather a pain to do in this forum, but I've just learned to deal with it. I know of no other forum that does this.

 

[lizzie]

Mine is 225 pixels wide by 305 tall.

Thanks Jeff! I have a square photo that’s the same length as its width, wondering how do I get that to fit inside the allowed space here?

Resize......I have found that to have the entire photo show on the home page, it must be a very small photo.
(as an example....the photo I use on this site is only 21.4 kb)

Thank you kindly Liz! But to tell the truth my (new) avatar that I just changed to, is smaller at only 18 kb, yet it kept cutting off most of it on the right so I finally just turned it sideways so it is now tall and skinny and .. it woiked! 

Interesting!

[Privateer]

Well as to automatically fixing an image to fit?
It can be done but at a cost.
Just like my example 300x300 the fastest way is to just drop the pixels to the right beyond settings.
Say you want the forum to resize to fit and NOT lose anything.
Now your eating server power and things would slow down just to show everyone's avatar.
One could code to shrink uploaded images and only display those smaller images but again.
You waste server resources and it hardly ever ends up right.
Best way is to know the max size the forum will show and then size before upload.
I belong to many forums that if your avatar is not properly sized?
You can't upload.

So I'd say optimum size from testing is 200X300

[Privateer]

The GT image is 350 pixels wide and you can see it's cut off.

[Mackado]

After years, only about a couple months ago or so finally added an avatar, previously I had tried but was never able to figure out how to make it work, apparently the forum software edits/crops the image based on a combination of image dimensions (PX) and file size (KB) so you need to manipulate the image , loaded here, and compare with your original to see what needs editing and re-load again, and so on,  it could take a lot of  work and time to display exactly what you want.

I found you can load a square image (pixels), but the file size has to be small around 40k.

My avatar dimensions are 175PX by 175PX, size is 40.7 KB, if I increase the file size (for quality) just a few more Kbs the forum software will chop off the right side.

[Hoosier Daddy]

I see Opels
 

[mrbulk]

The GT image is 350 pixels wide and you can see it's cut off.

Crazy...so I guess the trick is to have a 300x300 pixel image and make the right 2/3rds of it just blank so that your entire intended image shows up on the left...although it'd have to be tall and skinny like most avatars seen on GTA...?

Or maybe I'll try uploading a 100x300 image (with the 100 pixels being the height) so that when the other 200 pixels to the right are cropped, you end up with a perfectly nice square image...or not.

[mrbulk]

After years, only about a couple months ago or so finally added an avatar, previously I had tried but was never able to figure out how to make it work, apparently the forum software edits/crops the image based on a combination of image dimensions (PX) and file size (KB) so you need to manipulate the image , loaded here, and compare with your original to see what needs editing and re-load again, and so on,  it could take a lot of  work and time to display exactly what you want.

I found you can load a square image (pixels), but the file size has to be small around 40k.

My avatar dimensions are 175PX by 175PX, size is 40.7 KB, if I increase the file size (for quality) just a few more Kbs the forum software will chop off the right side.

Interesting results and certainly worth a try.

If not I'm just gonna go join a car forum (for Opels)...

[Stinger177]

The GT image is 350 pixels wide and you can see it's cut off.

Crazy...so I guess the trick is to have a 300x300 pixel image and make the right 2/3rds of it just blank so that your entire intended image shows up on the left...although it'd have to be tall and skinny like most avatars seen on GTA...?

Or maybe I'll try uploading a 100x300 image (with the 100 pixels being the height) so that when the other 200 pixels to the right are cropped, you end up with a perfectly nice square image...or not.

Probably more like the right 1/3 or less will get cut off. I guess it depends on how wide the original is.

Below is my original submitted image for my Combat Squirrel. You can compare that with my avatar, which I have changed back to it's original form and sized to 350pixels wide. I'll change it back to the more centered one when this thread dies out.



 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Don't forget resolution.
a .bmp takes up less data that a .jpg... and that takes less than a .png... file type may help with the avatar size. 

[mrbulk]

Hey!   I just fiddled with it back and forth several times by trial-and-error on the width until, for This pic at least, it came out that I had to "extend" the right side (just added on blank space) almost exactly 7/8ths of the original pic's width.

So let that be yore guide.

Or not.

@becauseYMMV...

[Stinger177]

Nice tip. I never thought about doing that!