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FYI: Forum avatars can now be 150x150

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He's looking at me... Menacingly!!! 8-)
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You just mean Lisa and her pixelation, right charrúa? :)
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How do I fix that?
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Nyeleni wrote:You just mean Lisa and her pixelation, right charrúa? :)
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LISA100595 wrote:How do I fix that?
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Nyeleni wrote:You just mean Lisa and her pixelation, right charrúa? :)
Either set it to it's proper size (69 width, 100 height) or upload a bigger picture ;)
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Re: FYI: Forum avatars can now be 150x150

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Here is a .png file for people to right-click and download, which is a color-matched to the panel for your forum avatar (https://postimg.org/image/5jecceupz/):

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The next file is a .tif file to also right-click and download, that has Layers, in case you use Photoshop or something else:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4WGk ... UxjVEloZmM

Anyway, the purpose is that if you do not have a 150x150 pixel image to place for your avatar, you can open either of these files in a graphics editor, copy and paste your current avatar on top, center it, then re-save as a new file. Then upload. This way, your smaller image will look all centered and nice.

If you're even more savvy with graphics, you can utilize the background to make transparent PNGs, like my own avatar. Or, if you find a transparent PNG/GIF on the internet and wish to use it, you know have a color matched background to work with.

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Re: FYI: Forum avatars can now be 150x150

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For example, here is a "repair" to Lisa's avatar (you see the "empty space" around the image...that is the extra background needed to center a smaller avatar in the new 150x0150 space):

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it looks nice. I think my problem is not having a decent picture editor. The original is MUCH too big and that pixilation happened when I tried to shrink it.
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Re: FYI: Forum avatars can now be 150x150

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There are a ton of options if you have a large source image, like you do, like I found on the internet.

Something like this:
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or:

Image

or this:

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