Avatar Picture Parameters

Hi Admins,

Can you please re-evaluate the Avatar picture sizing requirements? I appreciate the need to keep storage volumes to a minimum but the combination of file size & physical size is really limiting. I don’t think i’ve ever had a picture of myself that would meet the specified limits, i’m forced to using picture resizing tools to shrink (and then usually shrink again!) any picture I want to use.

Please have a look at this, I know we’re all fans of minimal size files here but text is one thing; pictures are another!

Thanks

Adam

Unless the phpBB software can shrink the avatar image to the appropriate size on the server, it’s reasonable to ask the user to do it.

(I don’t actually know what phpBB can do. But it’s clearly not a good idea for the server to just shove out a giant JPEG and browser-scale it down to the desired pixel size.)

That is more than likely why it does this - users can choose to display more than 10 posts at once, and if every avatar is the size of wallpaper it’s going to churn.

There’s a much larger limit on files attached to messages. When users attach a large image and display it inline, I know sometimes there’s a short delay before it shows up.

The good side is you only need to resize your avatar once (unless you’re changing it like we’re Instagram!). I’m pretty sure Preview on Mac and Paint on Windows will let you do this. For anyone a little confused about the process, the image software I use is free (ad-supported) online:

pixlr.com/editor/

To resize the image, select “Open Image From Your Computer” (crop as necessary using the crop tool which is usually where it will start you).
Then go to “Image>Image Size” and you can type the exact number of pixels in, constraining properties will keep the image the same ratio with regard to width and height, or you can uncheck that which may stretch your image one way or the other.

To use an image as your avatar on this forum, it must be no more than 100 x 100 pixels, and file size no more than 11.72 KB.
av2.JPG
Hit Okay, then Save the file to your computer and upload it into your profile under User Control Panel and the Profile Tab > Edit Avatar.
av1.JPG

Thanks all.