Avatars

[kyreb1862]

Would someone please tell me how to squeeze a photo down enough to be able to use it as an avatar?

 

[Tinster]

John,

In your photo software, you want to resize
your image to make it about 1" X 1" and then
lower the resolution to about 90.

that should do it for you. Save it as a jpeg

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[aeronca65t]

...and if you do not have access to photo editing software (such as PhotoShop), you can start an account on Photobucket.
Once you have uploaded a picture to Photobucket, there is an Edit option for each picture that allows you to resize (in fact, there is an automatic, avatar resize option).

https://photobucket.com/

 

[Basil]

Re-size to no more than 80x80 pixels. The limit is pixle based.

 

[rick_ingram]

I use IrfanView.

https://www.irfanview.com/

 

[jaybird]

^^what Rick said.

 

[Nunyas]

I use G.I.M.P. (GNU Image Manipulation Program: https://www.gimp.org ); free, powerful, and it's the GIMP... what more can I say?

 

[DrEntropy]

GIMP or for quick'n dirty gThumbs. Open source kicks butt. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

 

[Nunyas]

gThumbs... hmmm... don't think I've heard of that one yet. Got a URL? gthumbs.org doesn't work /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif

 

[DrEntropy]

Sorry, Rob.... "gThumb"....Sourceforge!

 

[Nunyas]

google was less than uhm... forth coming for a project page for gThumb.

shoulda known sourceforge...

 

[Patton]

I use IrfanView.

https://www.irfanview.com/

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Very good and easy to use