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wescott
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 Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject: Um...How large can avitars be without shrinking? |
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The reason I ask is because I have one that is a picture of me....and I don't know how much I'll have to shrink it (Its high resolution)...I don't want to shrink it too much. So if somebody can tell me the max length and hight that would be great. Thanx!
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pizen
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| 80x80 and no larger than 7KB |
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amne
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Lews_Therin
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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About avatars...and I'm sorry if this is off topic, but it seems to fit in the thread...why isn't the avatar size upped to 14k max? The guildlines say avatar+sig picture should be no larger than 14k max. Since sig pics have been disabled (or are bugged, but outcome is the same), why can't the avatar be larger?
I gots a really nice 12k picture I want to use  |
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aethyr
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| Lews_Therin wrote: | | I gots a really nice 12k picture I want to use :oops: |
Use gimp to save it as a png or jpeg with higher compression (to make it smaller). My avatar is 6.17kb. |
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Lews_Therin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| aethyr wrote: | | Lews_Therin wrote: | | I gots a really nice 12k picture I want to use |
Use gimp to save it as a png or jpeg with higher compression (to make it smaller). My avatar is 6.17kb. |
I saved it as png, with compression lvl 9, and pngcrushed it. Before it was 20kb. |
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aethyr
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe jpeg instead? I don't know what you tell you except it's 100% possible to get that image down under 7kb ;) |
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Lews_Therin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 2:06 am Post subject: |
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| aethyr wrote: | Maybe jpeg instead? I don't know what you tell you except it's 100% possible to get that image down under 7kb  |
Wow...I didn't know jpegs used such good compression! The thing's at 6kb now, with no apparent loss of quality. |
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Moofed
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| Lews_Therin wrote: | | Wow...I didn't know jpegs used such good compression! The thing's at 6kb now, with no apparent loss of quality. |
The key word being apparent. PNG images are losslessly compressed, unlike JPEG. Same thing as the difference between ogg/mp3 and flac/shm.
On that note, I too wish the avatar size limit was upped. I have an image that I want to have transparency in but the smallest I can get it to is ~11k. The GIMP apparently reduces the alpha channel to 1-bit when making the palette indexed so the result is very jagged edges.  So unless someone knows a way to get a true alpha channel with indexed color, then I see a definite need for larger avatar file sizes.
edit: I managed to greatly reduce the file size by decomposing the image, posterizing the alpha layer to 8 colors, and composing it back together. Posterizing the actual image might be needed too. After a good pngcrushing it is 5689 bytes. In the end its not lossless, but it does have nice edges. |
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Slyde
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| You must be really serious about having that avatar |
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Kezza
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| slyde wrote: | | You must be really serious about having that avatar |
Hear that wescott? Now you have to really impress us all with a killer avatar. |
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ian!
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As amne said..
Moved to 'Duplicate Threads'.
--ian!
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