Avatar File Size

[Th3_5had0w_K1ng]

Hey guys,

While trying to load an avatar, I struggle to make it 150x150 and even when I do it needs to be under 7 Kb?!? That's difficult to do considering all of the higher resolution pictures these days. It's really difficult to get it under 10 or 12 Kb. Anyway it can be increased slightly by the admins? Or am I just resizing my pictures wrong?

[Asurion Whitestar]

I saved mine as a lower quality file to have it, but I'm sure you can link to a larger file/pic.

[Th3_5had0w_K1ng]

Unfortunately, no. When linking to a picture URL it is still under the same file size restrictions as a normal upload from a personal computer.

[Ricold]

Hey guys,

While trying to load an avatar, I struggle to make it 150x150 and even when I do it needs to be under 7 Kb?!? That's difficult to do considering all of the higher resolution pictures these days. It's really difficult to get it under 10 or 12 Kb. Anyway it can be increased slightly by the admins? Or am I just resizing my pictures wrong?

Today's top tip: 150x150 pixels is completely unrelated to resolution. Resolution is pixels per inch (or similar). We are not telling you it has to be under 1" by 1", but under 150x150px, so you can't have a "high resolution" 150px picture, it either has 150 pixels, more or less. If more, then it's too big.

I'm going to request that the Loremasters do NOT increase the file size available for avatars. I still occasionally browse via a mobile connection, for which I pay by the KB. If people were to be allowed bigger avatars, then I will not be the only one to be paying extra money to visit the site.

If you're struggling to get your pictures small enough, try using better compression. Photoshop certainly has a function called "save for web" that tells you how bit it will be before you save it.

[Giladis]

I also believe that bigger Avatars are not necesary. After all they are just visual aids to more easily remeber other posters.

[Th3_5had0w_K1ng]

Today's top tip: 150x150 pixels is completely unrelated to resolution. Resolution is pixels per inch (or similar). We are not telling you it has to be under 1" by 1", but under 150x150px, so you can't have a "high resolution" 150px picture, it either has 150 pixels, more or less. If more, then it's too big.

If you're struggling to get your pictures small enough, try using better compression. Photoshop certainly has a function called "save for web" that tells you how bit it will be before you save it.

You can have different size files that are both 150x150. Depending on the image compression used, one may be 7 kb and another may be 15 kb. The more the picture is compressed the less detail you will see.

Edit: Irregardless, I got it to work. I just compressed it really far. Thanks for the help guys.

[Allerion]

I also believe that bigger Avatars are not necesary. After all they are just visual aids to more easily remeber other posters.

I always get really confused when someone changes their avatar. Of course, if I saw a lion, I would think of Luna, or If I saw two eye thingies in a dimly lit room, I would think its para, or if I saw Gil, I would think its him.

[Bob of Beleriand]

Irregardless isn't a word.

[Asurion Whitestar]

Irregardless isn't a word.

Oh man, I almost laughed my arse onto the floor reading this.
As I was reading the new posts since last I checked, scrolling, scrolling. Then saw TSK's post of Irregardless, I thought to my self as I chuckled, "really?, REALLY??! Man I'm gonna jump all over that :3", then scroll down some more and BAM! Bob's already done it.

Thanks for the laugh Bob.


So Shadow King, the word you're looking for is Regardless. Meaning the absence of an act to regard, or to give a damn. This plays into the prefix that is commonly associated with regardless being "Ir", usually used to make the following word an antonym of its original meaning. So, the word Irregardless (which isn't an actual word, despite it's wide use of the drop-kick populace, NOT saying that you are.) would actually be an antonym of Regardless, so to infact, care about the statement in which would follow the afore mentioned word of Irregardless.

To cover all bases of a possible smart-arse reply to my very helpful post.
In Urban or sometimes Modern dictionaries, you will find the word Irregardless as below.

Irregardless.
Adverb.
1. regardless; a combination of Irrespective and Regardless sometimes used humorously.


To in which this case, it was..
Colon, letter three..

[Talifan]

Asurion, well done Sir! Im still laughing about that one! Larger Avatars are not needed in mho either. If your looking at pics via google pictures, you can select a pixel size as one of the search criteria.

[Elessehta of Yvresse]

Th3_5had0w_K1ng
Get irfan view, use the save for web feature, it allows you to set the file size when you save. The program has awesome features for freeware.

[Lord Anathir]

any other simple solutions? I have an avater 60kb jpeg and I dont know how to lower its kb size.

I cant see an option to change its quality

[Elessehta of Yvresse]

Lord Anathir, what software are you using to make your avatar?

[Th3_5had0w_K1ng]

Irregardless isn't a word.

Oh man, I almost laughed my arse onto the floor reading this.

So Shadow King, the word you're looking for is Regardless. Meaning the absence of an act to regard, or to give a damn. This plays into the prefix that is commonly associated with regardless being "Ir", usually used to make the following word an antonym of its original meaning. So, the word Irregardless (which isn't an actual word, despite it's wide use of the drop-kick populace, NOT saying that you are.) would actually be an antonym of Regardless, so to infact, care about the statement in which would follow the afore mentioned word of Irregardless.

To cover all bases of a possible smart-arse reply to my very helpful post.
In Urban or sometimes Modern dictionaries, you will find the word Irregardless as below.

Irregardless.
Adverb.
1. regardless; a combination of Irrespective and Regardless sometimes used humorously.


To in which this case, it was..
Colon, letter three..

Holy crap... one use of a socially acceptable word and bam... it's grammar gang-bang time. Thanks for the education gentlemen but REGARDLESS I don't think using that word is worse than the plethora of misused "theirs/theres/they'res" on this site. However, since you are correct I will do the manly thing and accept my berating of the ill used word and will carefully check the rest of my english postings on this site.

PS about the avatar file size... doesn't need to be bigger. One just has to google how to compress images.

[Mr Pig]

If anyone has photoshop then using 'save for web' instead of 'save' gives the option of much better compression for web images. Using the standard save option I struggled to get my avatar below 30kb without hideous compression. I realise not everyone has photoshop but thought this might help someone

[Elessehta of Yvresse]

irfan view, it's free and has the setting to limit the file size when saving. The compression can sometimes be brutal but some people expect too much ^_^