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Just throwing this out there. Do you think we could increase the avatar size to 8KB? I know this could dramatically effect peoples loading time and I know we already have awesome luxurious such as being able to change our usernames and customizable ranks and much more, but in the past I've been saddened as I couldn't put up a picture which has filled every requirement except it is 7KB.

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I got a nice net-connection so it wouldn't bother me, but why didn't you just shrink the picture in photoshop? If you'd shrink it to avatar-size it normaly shouldn't exeed the limit.

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Some people don't have access to any sort of picture editing program or don't know how to edit their pictures. (Hint Hint /me):(
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I thought one could send the pic in email to a mod, for example (or anyone with Photoshop).. The other guy could then send it back and that's it?
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That's what I already offered to Khel in a PM, as I really do not think they'll actually change the max. avatar size.

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I know as most people now have broadband it won't affect the load times too much the other issue is the amount of space it will take up on the servers.
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Eeeeron wrote:I know as most people now have broadband it won't affect the load times too much the other issue is the amount of space it will take up on the servers.


The directory size for the avatars is around 4MB. I'm not sure we really need bigger avatars, I've yet to see a clamour for anything bigger.

Plus, I'm not sure what sort of impact this would have on the site's bandwidth (not my department) - with the number of people visiting the site likely to increase in the next few months, the man paying the bill really has to decide how it fits the budget ;).
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Khel wrote:Some people don't have access to any sort of picture editing program or don't know how to edit their pictures. (Hint Hint /me):(


http://www.gimp.org/windows/

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You could also just use the paint application if you're feeling real lazy.
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Fingol Darkwater wrote:You could also just use the paint application if you're feeling real lazy.


Paint doesn't have any option to compress the image. The gimp is as good as choice as any since it's free, and should give you the option to compress the image when you save it (though dropping much below 80% of the original file size can really harm the quality, depending on the image).
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Noemally an avatar doesn't need too good quality, so I think you can compress neraly every 80x80 pic beneath 6kB.
The good thing is, this thread finally encouraged me to do my own avatar (with Photoshop):
<-- See? :shock:

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Is there any such program for Mac?
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http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/u ... mpapp.html

This should work, I use photoshop so didn't down this, anyway good luck.
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