Bigger Avatars

[AnAutisticDog]

Can we have bigger avatars.

Only 48.8 KB, can we have atleast 100 kb?

[Jale]

The size is set that way to prevent the use of big animated GIFs and to consider people under dial-up connection. And not to mention the amount of bandwidth it would consume since the images are hosted right here, even if you hosted them from another server.

[AnAutisticDog]

But If not 100kb atleast 75kb

[Jale]

Why do you want it that big? Is this avatar a GIF or JPG?

[AnAutisticDog]

Ohh you ""assume"" that I want a bigger one for myself. LOL

Its a .gif 94kb

[Jale]

You can try reducing colours and/or frame rate. If you don't know how to do it, upload to ImageShack and I'll help you out.

[AnAutisticDog]

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8...fenliedvp3.gif

Thank you


PS.What is a good program to edit gifs?

[Jale]

I use Macromedia Fireworks (now Adobe's).

These are the changes I made to your new avatar:

• Reduced the image from 160x120 to 100x100 (crop and resize).
• About 73% of frames are now gone (from 26 frames to 7 frames. Internet Explorer users wouldn't spot the difference).
• Colours reduced from 256 to 155 (picture quality changed slightly. To worse, of course, but it's hardly noticeable. I added dithering to reduce the low-quality impact).

[AnAutisticDog]

Cool. Thank you very much