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Offline Seagoon

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« on: April 12, 2006, 03:18:51 PM »
Hi Guys,

I've been trying to replace my Avatar (I'm trying to get the largest view of Rembrandt's "Paul in Prison") and I've noticed that the best I can get is 64x64 which seems to be smaller than many of the Avatars on the BB. I get hamstrung by this even when the file size is much less than 30K. Is there a recommended program for avatar design? Any hints on getting the most out of the Avatar design?

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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2006, 03:27:07 PM »
My hint: pictures of hot babes usually work better than Dutch Baroque masterworks.
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« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2006, 03:41:53 PM »
Unless it's a picture of a hot babe done by a Dutch Baroque Master.
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« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2006, 03:43:07 PM »
You sayin' you go for Rubenesque women?
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« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2006, 03:49:49 PM »
your's "looks" smaller because it is narrower.

if you were to stretch it to 64 wide it would look funny. thats the hard part of non-square images for avatards.
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« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2006, 03:52:39 PM »
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your's "looks" smaller because it is narrower.

if you were to stretch it to 64 wide it would look funny. thats the hard part of non-square images for avatards.


Yep.

You could always center it on a regular sized background of your choice (color, details, whatever) to make it look the same size as everyone else's.  I think that would look pretty nice centered on a black background, personally.
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« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2006, 03:56:21 PM »
lost some color because i did this just in paint:



some pics just have too much detail to size properly for these 64x64 avatards.

sometimes i wish HTC would allow 100x100 and 60k file sizes just for some more detail, or fun ;)
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Offline J_A_B

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« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2006, 04:29:57 PM »
My avatar is the best.



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« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2006, 04:40:22 PM »
wow, look at that brushwork!
master indeed!
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« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2006, 07:51:12 PM »
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« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2006, 08:34:16 PM »
Now thats nice eskimo :-)
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« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2006, 01:30:58 PM »
Hi Guys,

Thanks for the assistance, I especially appreciate the animated gif Eskimo. For the moment, I'm still a boring "static" kind of guy, but I'll be using it if that changes. Which program do you guys use to create animated gifs?

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« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2006, 02:45:59 PM »
GIF Construction Set Professional

Free to try

http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html
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« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2006, 03:52:27 PM »
I use gifmerge.
Its probably near 10 years old, but it works & i'm too lazy to learn something new.
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