Pipe Smoker, here is your (previously) new avatar:

March 23, 2018, 09:27 PM

bald1

Looks like my edit and your posts crossed. jpgs and gifs seem to work but scaled svg formats may indeed be problematic.

April 30, 2018, 12:09 AM

Orguss

bumpity bump.

"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"

April 30, 2018, 04:43 AM

TigerDore

Is my avatar okay?

April 30, 2018, 04:52 AM

Storm

quote:
Originally posted by TigerDore:
Is my avatar okay?

No, it's 600×480 pixels. About 100x bigger than it needs to be.

I've resized it. You can download it from here and rehost it.

April 30, 2018, 06:36 AM

mark123

When you shrink an avatar down to required size it often becomes blurry. While it may seem counterintuitive, sometimes applying a blur to the image before shrinking it to size will make the shrunken image to seem more focused.

Gaussian blur seems to work well for me but the amount depends on the change in size. Experiment with it.

April 30, 2018, 08:40 AM

TigerDore

quote:
Originally posted by Storm:
quote:
Originally posted by TigerDore:
Is my avatar okay?

No, it's 600×480 pixels. About 100x bigger than it needs to be.

Thanks, Storm. That does make it too fuzzy so I have picked another placeholder for now, but I really appreciate you trying to help me out.

April 30, 2018, 09:30 AM

drabfour

Now to get mew on board.

April 30, 2018, 10:03 AM

Storm

quote:
Originally posted by TigerDore:
quote:
Originally posted by Storm:
quote:
Originally posted by TigerDore:
Is my avatar okay?

No, it's 600×480 pixels. About 100x bigger than it needs to be.

Thanks, Storm. That does make it too fuzzy so I have picked another placeholder for now, but I really appreciate you trying to help me out.

You're Welcome. I have image viewing software on my machine with only some basic editing functions. Wish I could have done better.

April 30, 2018, 10:40 AM

Orguss

quote:
Originally posted by drabfour:
Now to get mew on board.

Wow, mew paid the $400/year?! Also, I can't dl it because it's on PB.

May 07, 2018, 10:51 AM

Sock Eating Golden

Thanks Orguss! My apologies for the delay in hoping over here. Been so busy with work and kids my SF time is minimal. (Also, my pro CCW workplace blocked weapons websites. Figure that out.)

Also I snipped and rehosted Mew's avatar for resizing.

Nick

"I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that."
-Capt. Edward Smith

May 07, 2018, 04:18 PM

Orguss

Thanks for grabbing it. Also, I would have been perfectly happy to host your avatar for you.

May 11, 2018, 10:12 PM

Orguss

Is mine too annoying? I'm on the fence about it.

May 11, 2018, 10:24 PM

bald1

quote:
Originally posted by Orguss:
Is mine too annoying? I'm on the fence about it.

Ouch! Sets off epileptic fits. Just kidding.

May 11, 2018, 10:45 PM

Rey HRH

quote:
Originally posted by Orguss:
Is mine too annoying? I'm on the fence about it.

Since you asked, yes. I'm reading and there's this flickering to the side.

And it's only $90 a year now for photobucket for 100gb. I just downloaded all of my pictures from them. I paid $2 for a chrome app to do batch downloads. Otherwise, photobucket only lets you dl one pic at a time. Photobucket Album Downloader (Unlimit) on Google store.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

March 29, 2020, 09:03 PM

Orguss

LOL I see Pipe Smoker has gone back to using his original, "it's super big but I don't see it as an issue so it must be your problem" avatar.

I still have yours hosted:
http://superdimension.net/gifs...forum/pipesmoker.jpg

March 30, 2020, 09:30 AM

HRK

well if it's a problem because of internet speed, because it's outside of spec, just block him, then you won't see the image at all...

Surprised the board software simply just disallows imaged over the size limit. it would solve the problem...

My high speed internet fixes dealing with the problem, but can see where it would be an issue on slower networks.

March 30, 2020, 10:14 AM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by HRK:

well if it's a problem because of internet speed, because it's outside of spec, just block him

Blocking the offender is one option. Another is the setting in your SIGforum profile, personal preferences, that disables transmission of avatars.

March 30, 2020, 01:40 PM

HRK

quote:
Originally posted by V-Tail:
quote:
Originally posted by HRK:

well if it's a problem because of internet speed, because it's outside of spec, just block him
Blocking the offender is one option. Another is the setting in your SIGforum profile, personal preferences, that disables transmission of avatars.

yep, anyone having an issue can just do this,

I had forgotten that was an option in addition to blocking the user.

So instead of pushing for others to change their image size, you can simply just block them when you're on slow bandwidth or a phone etc.

Sounds easier than trying to get images into compliance...

March 30, 2020, 02:30 PM

V-Tail

quote:
easier than trying to get images into compliance

Especially when dealing with a compliant-resistant member.

March 30, 2020, 02:40 PM

Pipe Smoker

Sorry. Long ago I replaced my original avatar with a small ImageShack-hosted avatar – thought that made it legit. Apparently not. I’ll redo the ImageShack avatar.

Let me know if that does it. It’s not easy for me to know of a size problem because all SigForum avatars appear exactly the same size to me, since I don’t use an archaic browser. And, no, that’s not because I have a fast Internet connection – my sole Internet connection is Sprint’s cellular service.

BTW – Even my old avatar would’ve caused no bandwidth problems for anyone, because its pixels were 8-bit grayscale, rather than the 24- or 32-bit color pixels that most folks use. Not to mention the multi frame color GIFs that some folks use for their avatar.