Avatar Images

[Msterbeau]

Troy... Is there an option to make the avatar images rectangular instead of square? I want to upload a photo that's vertically oriented and ... well... squares are not workin for me.

[Scary Guy]

He'd have to change the dimensions of the max uploadable image resolution. I recommend editing your file in paint, reducing the size, and putting black in the white space (even though it will reduce quality).

[Msterbeau]

He'd have to change the dimensions of the max uploadable image resolution. I recommend editing your file in paint, reducing the size, and putting black in the white space (even though it will reduce quality).

Bleh... Is there any great pain in adding maybe 20 pixels in height? it's not like it's a huge hit in file size. 2KB or 3KB hardly matters...

[Kitten]

Bleh... Is there any great pain in adding maybe 20 pixels in height? it's not like it's a huge hit in file size. 2KB or 3KB hardly matters...

2 or 3 KB kinda matters when it comes to badwidth, if we have 1024 unique visitors a day then thats 2 or 3 MB more bandwidth a day, or 365 MB per yer extra bandwidth

now if all our users did then then it would stack up very quickly

you know kinda like when your coding a BITMAP generator an you need to have it in rgb so it takes up W*H*3 bytes in memory.... kinda gets Crazy with a 4096x4096 image

48MB (big B = bytes not bits, 8 bits is 1 byte)

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I increased the whole thing to 1280 x 1024 which is larger than 90% of most users entire (vertical) screen resolution for "square" shaped images, and will fill almost the entire screen of 99% of users uploaded as horizontal oriented. I need to leave it at a "landscape" orientation as that's by far the most common picture type that people upload.

Sorry i didn't respond to this sooner, i do eventually read pretty much every new topic in this forum. But, even though im "online" a lot i don't always get to the posts very quickly. PMs usually work best if you need me specifically to look at something.

[Msterbeau]

I increased the whole thing to 1280 x 1024 which is larger than 90% of most users entire (vertical) screen resolution for "square" shaped images, and will fill almost the entire screen of 99% of users uploaded as horizontal oriented. I need to leave it at a "landscape" orientation as that's by far the most common picture type that people upload.

Sorry i didn't respond to this sooner, i do eventually read pretty much every new topic in this forum. But, even though im "online" a lot i don't always get to the posts very quickly. PMs usually work best if you need me specifically to look at something.

We must be talking about different things... I meant the small image to the left of our posts. I think the current ones are 45x45 pixels?

[Troy Spiral (13)]

haha... I've had the pictures gallery and things on the brain so much lately i saw, what was not written. Good thing i wasn't thinking about dead relatives or something.

its 90 X 90 (a square) which is fairly large for a message board. It is true that even a slight increase in the avatar size gets magnified across the whole board , on every topic anyone ever posts in. Unless there is some really convincing reason not to keep it the way it is, I'm inclined to not want to change it.