I'm trying to put up my avatar, but it says the file is too big. What's a good way to resize it so it works for my avatar?

 

Kyle send me the pic Redneckstone0202@yahoo.com or aim me i'll take care of it

 

A free program you can download called Irfanview, or photoshop or Microsoft Photo editor works decently.

 

use a photo program to resize it


or post it here and once i get off work ill resize it and upload it for you

 

Well now that I finally have an AVATAR up... How do I get a bigger one!

 

become a site contributor, its 10 bucks i think

go under the user cp, and i think its under misc.

 

also you can use Mihov Image Resizer...very simple..just download it off of google..

 

taken care of

 

I downloaded the program but how do you make the picture resize I put in the 110 x 110 size but it was still small

 

I use MIHOV as well.

You select "JPG" from the "tabs" on the right, navigate and select the picture or pictures you want to resize on the "tree" display on the left, and click the button. It couldn't be simpler.

110x110 IS very small, lol. Or did you mean too big? The image created is your original file name with "mini-" put on the front. Your original image file is untouched.

 

to me the best resizer is the windows one, under powertoys on microsoft.com, but i need to d/l mihov as well so i can convert stuff

 

Mihov is nice because you can highlight multiple files and "batch" convert, it doesn't modify the original, and it's fast. Haven't see the "powertoys" one in windows. I use Mihov to resize for hosting/posting to get the "right size" with minimal space requirements.

To highlight multiples, hold down shift as you click each one.

 

Heck...I use Paint Shop Pro 8 and Photoshop 8 CS. I like techie-crap.

 

Ditto I like PS that HOW I did his avatar haha and mine!

 

Ok well before I was a contributor I used MIHOV, but now that I am and can have a 300 X 150 picture, MIHOV cant make that size. What program should I use? (as you can see I have a larger, but still a square avatar)

 

send me the bigger pic to my addy up there ^^^ and i will do it for ya if you like

 

like this one or no?

 

ahah thats cool Zach! let me look through some pics and see if i like anyone better, but thats cool!

 

Of course it can make that size, what ARE you talking about?

However, all resizing programs need an image cropped to the right PROPORTIONS before resizing. If you resize the height and width WITHOUT pre-cropping to the right proportions, you will end up with a distorted image.

For your example, if your original image was say, 1200x800, you need to crop it to something like 1200x600 and THEN resize it, telling Mihov you want a 300 pixel size in the biggest dimension (which is the number you enter). Then it will resize the 1200x600 image to 300x150 -- proportionality is key.

 

ahh i get what your saying John. I'm just not too good with this whole tech stuff