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[clairestortoise]

Hello

I am new here, which is why im in the section lol...I am trying to add an Avatar pic, but its not working :( I have tried and tried but no luck. Is it cause im new? or am I not doing something lol

[Alan1]

it might be, i know you have to have pics approved before you have made 5 posts so avatar might be the same. even after 5 posts they need to be approved the first time then it's ok after that. the avatar pics need to be no more than 80x80 pixels i think too

[linda]

you should be able to upload an avatar irrelevant of how new you are :-P:-P
have a practice

if it dosent work please
pm me or any adim and we will talk you through it
or do it for you :p:p

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[clairestortoise]

I managed to add my profile pic, but now wish to change it....But am having probs changing it :( I get the message "upload of file failed", Ive even tried to change/edit my profile pic, which doesnt look like theres one there, still get the same errror....Does the admin need to switch something on for me lol

[Alan1]

I managed to add my profile pic, but now wish to change it....But am having probs changing it :( I get the message "upload of file failed", Ive even tried to change/edit my profile pic, which doesnt look like theres one there, still get the same errror....Does the admin need to switch something on for me lol

is your file size within the limits because if not it won't work?

[clairestortoise]

Hi, The pic I want is 2.60mb... Dimension 3264 by 1840..I'm not too hot on sizing...Can ask the hubby but he's working on his laptop and dont want to disturb him lol...I want to sort this, This is bugging me now :-( Is the pic I want too big do you think?

[clairestortoise]

I think I have finally mastered it lol, My avatar and profile pics should both be the same...:oops:

[Alan1]

Hi, The pic I want is 2.60mb... Dimension 3264 by 1840..I'm not too hot on sizing...Can ask the hubby but he's working on his laptop and dont want to disturb him lol...I want to sort this, This is bugging me now :-( Is the pic I want too big do you think?

just a bit :) I think it has to be something like 80 x 80 pixels max and a max of 20kb or something. your pic exceeds that by several thousand pixels and kilobytes

[clairestortoise]

I dont understand sizes lol...kb's and MB's my hubby has tried to explain it all to me but it doesnt digest lol... I think i have done it now, files were just over 1Mb

[Alan1]

it says Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 80 by 80 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller).

can you upload your pic to tinypic? www.tinypic.com ,if so I could resize it for you probably if you can upload it and give me the link. all web pics should really be reduced to 72dpi because any more than that and it makes no difference to the quality, only makes a difference if printing the pic

[Alan1]

I dont understand sizes lol...kb's and MB's my hubby has tried to explain it all to me but it doesnt digest lol... I think i have done it now, files were just over 1Mb 1Mb is still massive, 1 Mb is 1014Kb and you only want it to be 19.5Kb max. it's the resolution needs reduced (pixels or dots per inch)

[clairestortoise]

oooo thats kind :) Thanks..I use photobucket is this any good for you, as I know what im doing on this lol

[clairestortoise]

Think I need a crash course on pic sizes lol....

[Alan1]

oooo thats kind :) Thanks..I use photobucket is this any good for you, as I know what im doing on this lol

do it on photobucket then and paste the link on here

[clairestortoise]

Right..I have a link....http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy137/ClairesTortoise/Teddybathing010.jpg Hope I done it right :)

[clairestortoise]

Here's one more ;-) http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy137/ClairesTortoise/Cacti003.jpg Thank you

[Alan1]

do you want them both reduced to fit on you avatar? 80 x 80? can't use both at once obviously. or do you want one for avatar and one for profile pic? profile pic is I think 80 x 100 os something

[clairestortoise]

mmmm..one for each pls, If this is ok...You'll have to tell me how you are doing this, cant rely on others :)..Do you use a program to resize? Im not too sure if I have anything like that on my laptop.

[Alan1]

mmmm..one for each pls, If this is ok...You'll have to tell me how you are doing this, cant rely on others :)..Do you use a program to resize? Im not too sure if I have anything like that on my laptop.

yes I use paint shop pro

[clairestortoise]

ok, I will have to have a look and see what I have, I must have something to resize...

[Alan1]

Avatar1 http://i47.tinypic.com/200urdd.jpg
Avatar2 http://i50.tinypic.com/6ygk01.jpg

profile1 http://i50.tinypic.com/k0jxv8.jpg
profile2 http://i45.tinypic.com/xmj3hk.jpg

you will either need to save them to your pc or use the code in you avatar or profile

[clairestortoise]

Hiya...Ahhh Thanks so much!! I had a look for Paint and I have that! I had just done one!!! YAAYYY!! I just tested it too to make sure it worked and it did :) Never used it before....

I will save those pics that you have done for me :) Thank you!! :grin:

[Alan1]

I forgot about paint. it's Paint Shop Pro I have which is a photo editing programme, costs abot £50 or so now. there are various online resizers like this one here http://www.resize2mail.com/

if you right click on any pic and click on properties it tells you the image size. your avatar and profile pics don't need to be 80 x 80 and 100 x 100 they could be 80 x 75 or 100 x 60 or whatever as long as they don't exceed the max limit

[clairestortoise]

Cool! I have just book marked it :)... IF you notice my avatar changing thats cause im playing about hehe...Thanks for your help :):-D