The Little Pictures

[Adam_Dodgezilla]

How Do you add those little pictures under the names??? Just call me computer illiterate!!

 

[Adam_Dodgezilla]

test

 

[roadranger]

Adam- First you've got to load the pic you want to use in your 'puter. It has to be small- 50x50. This means you have to use some kind of photo software to change the size of the pic.



Then come back to the board here,and up top click

'user cp', then 'edit options'.



At the bottom of this screen you'll find the 'Avatar' settings. Click on the 'browse' to go back into your 'puter to find the folder where your pic is loaded. If your pic is too big, it'll tell you, then you have to make pic smaller and start over again.



Hope this helps- it worked for me...

 

[Ethdee]

Take your intended picture and reduce it so that no dimension is larger than 50 pixels.



Then come back here, click on "user cp", then "edit options", then "Change Avatar. " You can probably figure out the rest.

 

[Adam_Dodgezilla]

test and thanks Guys I think I got it!!

 

[Adam_Dodgezilla]

Thank You!! Thie site just keeps getting Better

 

[musclefixer]

testing... ... testing... ... ... 123

 

[KatDiesel]

Yes there are some very neat features in VBulletin. It will jsut take time for the Adminstrators and the Users to learn them.

 

[SlyBones]

KatDiesel,



Is that an animated . GIF?

 

[KatDiesel]

Originally posted by SlyBones

KatDiesel,



Is that an animated . GIF?

Yes it is. Only one I had "handy" at the time. I gotta find me a better one. But I normally use that one for my AOL IM "buddy icon", so I slapped it no there and it looks good. I take it it shows animated to people who are reading it?

 

[snake]

THE LITTLE PICTURE !!

First go to the "usercp" button on the TDR, next select the "edit options", go to the bottom where it says "Avatar' and select "change Avatar" and follow instructions. But, before you do all this, make sure you have access to a program that allows you to call up whatever image you are going to use and will allow you to resize it to no more than 50 pixels by 50 pixels and save it. This is the image you will install as your Avatar.

I hope this helps you out.

 

[LMontyCJ2a]

Test

 

[groundpounder]

was wondering that myself. Thanks

 

[Bud Fox]

so the person can't see their animated gif on their computer???

 

[Speedo]

I might as well try one too.

 

[EMDDIESEL]

Finally got mine to work, luckily my friend is a website designer and knows all these tricks.

 

[Jeff H]

test

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[TomGolden]

Well, let's see how well my avatar attempt comes out... Hope this picture isn't too small.

 

[Gunny]

What software are you guys using to make those pictures 50 x 50 pixels? I have Adobe Photo Deluxe (Win 98) and every file I created, even down to 14 x 16 pixels (too darn small to even see), just gave me an error message that the file was too big when I submitted the avatar change.

Any help appreciated. Gunny

 

[TomGolden]

Gunny,



There are two parts to the equation with any type of graphic image (i. e. "pictures"). There are the pixel dimensions of the picture itself, and the format the image is saved in - examples are JPG (also known as JPEG), GIF, TIFF, BMP and several others. The JPG (or JPEG) format uses a fairly good compression routine so image files saved as that type are usually many, many times smaller sized files that most of the other formats.



Go into your Adobe Photo Deluxe software and open the image you want to work with. First, shrink it to the appropriate number of pixels (50x50 for the avatars here), and then you will be wanting to convert it to the JPG format.



On my Microsoft Image Editor software, this is easily done by going to the "File" pulldown menu, selecting "Save As... " and then in the dialog box that comes up, usually at or towards the bottom of the entire dialog box, there is the "save as type" or something like that sub-window which should have a listing of all the different file types your software can save image files as. Select JPG (or maybe called JPEG) and then save your file.



You can use the Microsoft Windows Explorer (as opposed to Internet Expolrer) to view the file, and then under the "View" pulldown menu, select "Details" which will show you, among other details about each file and folder, the size in bytes of the file. That way you can see if in fact the file is now of the appropriate size to be used here as an avatar.



Hope this helps clear up your problem,

Tom