avatar question! I need resizing!

[colt zantop]

does anyone know how to resize your pic? I cant without photoshop....

[TonyL]

what size would you like it?

[colt zantop]

I just need it to work for the avatar.....so anything 80x 80 or smaller......

thanks so much.....


colt45

[TonyL]

the one up there looked washed out.

so heres one that is a little bigger than 80x80
and one that is smaller

[colt zantop]

thanks! one more problem.......its the right size but im getting a message saying its not a valid JPG....???? now what?? LOL

any help would be great! thanks so much


colt45

[HOT OHC]

Here you go, avatar size (not over 80 pixels)

[HOT OHC]

haha tony beat me to it.

[TonyL]

hmm. thats odd.. did you save the pic to your hard drive? or did you use the url of the attached pic? if you tried that it wouldnt work.

[colt zantop]

I saved it to my hardrive.......was that the right thing to do?


im fairly new to this...LOL as you can tell



colt45

[TonyL]

thats weird. if nothing else, pop over to imageshack and click "browse" then find the pic you saved. then click "host it" the next page that comes up will have the coded string you need to copy and paste in the URL dialog box in the avatar window of User Cp. that oughta do it.

[HOT OHC]

make sure it has a .jpg extension. try renaming it newname.jpg or try mine.

[colt zantop]

it will only let me save it as a bitmap.....bmp....thats probably the reason....I cant save it as a jpg....or I dont know how.....Im trying to save it in my documents....it gives me a spot to name the pic and a spot to choose what type but it only gives me bitmap choice.....am I doing something wrong........LOL...what a pain...sorry guys!!!


colt45

[HOT OHC]

did you try mine (that I made for you) is it giving you the same problem?

[colt zantop]

yup...same problem....yours from photobucket.com.......I have never had this much of a problem......weird....im sure its something simple that im screwing up! LOL

colt45

[HOT OHC]

so you are right clicking and choosing "save picture as" this should work, just save to your desk top for easy of finding it. then when you go to edit avatar click 'browse' and look for it on your desk top.

[colt zantop]

yup..done that about 50 times.....it just says "not a valid jpg...please check this and try again".....LOL.......stupid computer......or me...


colt45

[colt zantop]

Im giving up.........THANKS GUYS FOR THE HELP ANYWAYS......the funny thing is....it shows up in my signature but not my avatar????? weird.....

[TonyL]

all you need to do is this.
right click on and select copy, the following link:
http://img22.exs.cx/img22/4403/small10.jpg

go to the "edit avatar" page in your user cp. then in the "Enter Avatar URL" dialog box, (after you've deleted the "http://www" )right click and select paste.
that URL should show up.

then click "Save Changes" then you'll be done!

[derekf]

I actually couldn't get it to accept a hosted avatar, the only way I got mine to accept it (I was getting the same error) was to allow the board to host it (provided a path to a local copy of the .jpg, it uploaded it and it seems to be working)

[ZZ430]

Same here, a hosted avatar wouldn't work, had to use one directly from hard drive.

On the sig pics, only hosted would work for me.