Forum Avatars - a quick guide to fix or add yours!

[Nancy]

Test to see if Avatar worked.

 

[Makai Guy]

Test to see if Avatar worked.

It worked.

 

[Passepartout]

Thanks. This'll do for a while. Somehow today, the muffler and boots seem appropriate.

Jim

 

[VacationForever]

I just changed mine today to a custom one, for the 3rd time because I just realized mine was the same as Jim's (I don't know who picked it first).

 

[Passepartout]

I just changed mine today to a custom one, for the 3rd time because I just realized mine was the same as Jim's (I don't know who picked it first).

HAHAHA. With only 25 to choose from it's hard not to choose one someone else has 'claimed'. If someone retrieves the old
pontificating chipmunk (or whatever he was), I'll give him a job, but until I find something I like better or get a better photo of my beloved, but not so photogenic pooch, this will do.

 

[TUGBrian]

sadly while we do have access to all the old vbulletin avatars, but vbulletin stored them all as 100x100 images and this is why they look "grainy" when used here on these forums because they are blown up to 250x250 (or something close) as the size in xenforo.

im sure we can add more default ones to the gallery list for folks to choose from, but its far more common for folks to pick a photo they like and use it as an avatar and xen should shrink it down to the right size even if you use a larger photo.

 

[csxjohn]

avatar test, found the photo

 

[isisdave]

So what's wrong with mine? In my uploaded image, I can see the tips of the horns, and the line at the base, all at the same time. The "uploaded image" on the avatar chooser dialog displays that way too. But in the smaller box, as in the one you see at the left, the image doesn't fit in the box. I can slide it up and down and get either the tips or the base, but I don't see a way to shrink it a little so it all shows.

 

[DeniseM]

So what's wrong with mine? In my uploaded image, I can see the tips of the horns, and the line at the base, all at the same time. The "uploaded image" on the avatar chooser dialog displays that way too. But in the smaller box, as in the one you see at the left, the image doesn't fit in the box. I can slide it up and down and get either the tips or the base, but I don't see a way to shrink it a little so it all shows.

Reduce the size of the picture before you upload it.

 

[TUGBrian]

in actuality, the avatar photos are 250x250 in size...if you try to attach a really large photo itll shrink it down somewhat but may not display the full range of the photo especially if the picture is wider than it is tall (as itll shrink it down to fit in a 250x250 box).

so unless the photo is perfectly symmetrical (ie the same height and width)...some parts are going to get cut off when its shrunk into the 250x250 box.

 

[Makai Guy]

Your avatar image is taller than it is wide. The avatar as it is displayed is square, so some of it is cropped off to be a square of the smaller dimension. When padded out to become a square, you get this:

 

[pedro47]

Can isisdave just turn the image to the right or left to pick-up the whole image?

 

[Makai Guy]

Can isisdave just turn the image to the right or left to pick-up the whole image?

No, but he can save the one I uploaded then uploaded it as his avatar...

 

[isisdave]

And so I did just that. Perfect! Thanks so much.