88pathoffroad Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 If anyone here needs a picture hosted for their BBS signature or for any other reason, I will host it for you and send you the link for it upon request FOR FREE. I can also offer image resizing, cropping, and editing so that anyone without access to photoediting programs can have a decently sized and arranged picture for your signature or for demo purposes. Either post here or PM me. Also, please keep the size of your signature pics down to the bare minimum. They should be around 15-30 kb in size, and yes, it is possible to have a small filesize picture that still looks good. Mine is 13 kb. How's that look? I'm not trying to nag, just trying to keep things rolling along smoothly here without getting bogged down by too much data. If one page loads with the same person's oversize picture posted three or four times, the time it takes to load each page goes up. Dial-up users will definitely appreciate this as well. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 i got one i would like you to host Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted December 6, 2003 Author Share Posted December 6, 2003 Email it to me. The address is in my profile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 Ok will do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnoViking Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 is it possible to use one of my pics posted in the member's section? let me know... i dont care which one either. pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted December 13, 2003 Author Share Posted December 13, 2003 Sure. Let me know which one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrailChaser Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 I set-up my sig pic last night and I hosted it from the cardomain site. Now it's got a lil CarDomain.com in the bottom corner... That's kinda cool I think... It seems wierd that they somehow knew I was using it from there site and added their logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted June 13, 2004 Author Share Posted June 13, 2004 Just so everybody knows: When you pick an avatar picture and upload a huge-as$ photo of your Pathy, the base picture data doesn't magically get resized to fit the 160x120 space for avatars. The base pic stays the same in filesize, but the displayed image itself is compressed to fit. What I'm saying is that there are a lot of members here wasting massive amounts of bandwidth by having improperly sized avatar pics. MrJim foots the bill for that one. You're costing him money, both for the storage of the picture on his server and the bandwidth it takes to display that picture every time it's called for. If you think it doesn't matter, try calculating it out. The number of your posts times the number of people reading each post every day times number of days in a month...it adds up FAST. Everyone needs to keep the avatar pics down to 10-20K in filesize. If you don't know how to resize pics, ask. If you can't find anybody else that knows how, email me the pic and I will send it back to you properly resized. Any avatar picture over 50K will be noted as it's found and a PM will be sent to the owner, asking the owner to resize or change it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madhatter_xe Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 (edited) Hey, is there anything you can do with this ginormous pic Edited February 1, 2005 by 88pathoffroad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statikuz Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 (edited) Sure, I fixed it for ya: Edited January 29, 2005 by statikuz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madhatter_xe Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 hey thanks, how'd you do that? Do you change the format from .jpg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statikuz Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Photoshop... PSP... Paint... whatever pretty much works. =) Download a trail of Photoshop from the Adobe website (if they still let you do that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted February 1, 2005 Author Share Posted February 1, 2005 I use a freebie version of ACDSee's photoeditor program. You can also edit photos in MS Paint, which comes with all versions of MS Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Pickles Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 (edited) Its very easy. If you want to keep it simple on any machine, just insert the pic to Word (tools- insert). Shrink the size down smaller but viewable, then copy it to Paint. From there, just save as a jpg/jpeg and you're good to go. Simple as can be if you need it to be, but it saves Jim a bunch of space. Oh, and it takes 1 minute, maybe even 2. Edited February 2, 2005 by Mr. Pickles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC88Pathy Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 I thought I'd mention for any mac users here (I'm not alone am I?), most macs come with graphic converter. Graphic converter can resize crop and compress. Resizeing can be done via the picture menu under the size sub-menu. Crop can be done under the edit menu with the trim option. Compressing is done in the save dialog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzy Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Quick Question: has the size limit changed on the avatars? I decided to revise mine, and now I have this teenie weenie avatar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrailChaser Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 I'm having the same av too small problem too. Mines like that cause I couldn't see the size and just quessed. I may go resize it later. What's the normal size for AV's??? 80x80? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzy Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 (edited) another forum I am on is 80x80 but this site now lists 64x64 maximum... ??? I saved the file at 100 pixels - but it automatically shrinks it... I only thought it odd, as my old avatar was much bigger than that. Now I have a postage stamp. I tried both uploading from my computer, and also linking to the image on my website. Edited March 22, 2005 by Pezzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardwaretoad Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 (edited) Maybe it's part of the "upgrades" that MrJim did when the BBS went down here awhile ago... Edited March 23, 2005 by hardwaretoad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted March 23, 2005 Author Share Posted March 23, 2005 Jim must have messed with it. I give up... *shakes head* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzy Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 rats. anyone have a magnifying glass I can use to see if I uploaded the right pic to my avatar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardwaretoad Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 250X308 pxl... after that it's a little "fuzzy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonesyUSN Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 I tried to get them resized I dont know if i did it correctly so i am just posting a couple of trail pics to find out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonesyUSN Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 last one dam i love that pathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrailChaser Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Trying a new av out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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