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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Seagoon on April 12, 2006, 03:18:51 PM

Title: Dumb Avatar Question
Post by: Seagoon 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?

- SEAGOON

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Post by: Holden McGroin 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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Post by: Stringer 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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Post by: Holden McGroin on April 12, 2006, 03:43:07 PM

You sayin' you go for Rubenesque women?

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Post by: Mustaine 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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Post by: Vudak on April 12, 2006, 03:52:39 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Mustaine
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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Post by: Mustaine on April 12, 2006, 03:56:21 PM

lost some color because i did this just in paint:

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/180_1144875356_testpaulav.gif)

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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Post by: J_A_B on April 12, 2006, 04:29:57 PM

My avatar is the best.



J_A_B

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Post by: Debonair on April 12, 2006, 04:40:22 PM

wow, look at that brushwork!
master indeed!

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Post by: eskimo2 on April 12, 2006, 07:51:12 PM

(http://www.wwiirt.com/ahsounds/paul.GIF)

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Post by: Elfie on April 12, 2006, 08:34:16 PM

Now thats nice eskimo :-)

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Post by: Seagoon 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?

- SEAGOON

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Post by: eskimo2 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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Post by: Debonair 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.