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kyreb1862

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Would someone please tell me how to squeeze a photo down enough to be able to use it as an avatar?
 
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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...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/
 
Re-size to no more than 80x80 pixels. The limit is pixle based.
 
^^what Rick said.
 
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?
 
GIMP or for quick'n dirty gThumbs. Open source kicks butt. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
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
 
Sorry, Rob.... "gThumb"....Sourceforge!
 
google was less than uhm... forth coming for a project page for gThumb.

shoulda known sourceforge... :rolleyes:
 
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