11 replies to this topic

[DrDomm]

Ok, sorry to post this here but the "instructions" here are very limited and I couldn't find a good spot to post this.

I've wasted a couple of hours trying to update my profile pic, and I'm not satisifed. I can't seem to simply upload one from my computer or link photobucket.com. It just won't work. So I've uploaded a few photos to the Gallery here, and then set them as my photo from the "option" tab. I've tried multiple size/resolution photos. But, the little image next to all my posts comes out fuzzy. Any thoughts?

Again, I know this space is reserved for bumping and calling names. Sorry.

[LarryKing]

Do you have PhotoShop?

[DrDomm]

I have Paint.net. I can adjust all kinds of things.

[DrDomm]

The pictures in the gallery and on my profile page look like full resolution. It's just the lame image under my name when I post.

[Tom Hampton]

DrDomm-

When I created my avatar I resized it from the original image to 400x219. I just tried one of yours at 500x250, and it looked much better than what you have now. I also noticed that several of your pictures are slightly out of focus. Its not obvious at normal web resolutions, but when viewed at full resolution at 1:1, there is some slight fuzziness.

I downloaded one of your images, and loaded it into paintshopPro, then I cropped to just the image of the car. Then I resized the image to 500x249 using the "weighted average" resize algorithm. Finally, I applied two sharpen passes to the image to clean up the fuzziness as much as I could without inducing artifacts.

The result still isn't quite as clear as my own avatar, but I think that's just due to the original image focus issues.

[Tom Hampton]

Hmmm...I seem to have set my avatar to my test image using your photo. Ooops....I'll leave it up for you to see before I switch back. If you like this one, I can email it to you.

PM me, with your email....

[DrDomm]

It just doesn't seem like it should be so difficult to get a little picture to not be blurry even when you start with a slightly out of focus 4000x3000 image.

[Tom Hampton]

I have this saying about the word "should"....(should usually equals isn't).

[DrDomm]

Solved. Can't use massively large images.

[Scott McKay]

I just tried with mine, its a 600pixel image, 246kb and it won't let me change my picture. I have no idea why.

[Tom Hampton]

I think the height is limited to 250 pixels. I know 500x249 works.

[Jim Boemler]

The avatar shows at 92x92, so if you submit a picture at that size the system will probably leave it alone.