Avatar/Signature Discussion and Help

[Homer]

Your URL doesn't look right try rehosting the pic.

[vanloan14305]

i got one that worked thank you all for your help ang gl on pogo

[vasunlover]

I give up, guess I am just plain dumb or it's too late, or maybe even both...lol
Night all :'(

[WindSong]

I'm having trouble placing an avatar in my profile also.  It's uploaded to Image Shack, I have the code.  I go to profile and enter the code.  When I click "change profile" it goes back to the top option that's "do nothing".  Any suggestions?

[Homer]

What's the url?

[WindSong]

Mine is

[Homer]

I get a blank image. Try rehosting the image.

[WindSong]

How about this one



I tried it also and didn't work. .. Thanks so much for your help.

[Homer]

It had to be resized. I have attached a resized pic. Try hosting this one.

[WindSong]

Wow .. that was fast .. THANK YOU! .. Let's see if this works.

[WindSong]

Sorry I don't know how to make the pic show up  :'(

[Homer]

There. I fixed it.  ;)

[WindSong]

Thank you again.  I'll stop bugging you for the night.  Have a good one!!

[Homer]

Your welcome. ;)

[vasunlover]

<a href="https://imageshack.us"><img src="https://img374.imageshack.us/img374/2425/images8rr.jpg" border="0" width="93" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a>

[Barbara]

You seem to be drawing a blank.

[Mr. Rasputia]

I have the pic loaded to my profile, but as you can see my pic is way too big. How do i reduce it in size? Thanks for any help offered :)

[sentinels]

hmmm that would be a question for the higher ups lol...Homer, mayhem, barbara perhaps....sorry i couldnt help. I'm trying to figure out what the maximum size avatar is allowed on this forum b4 it gets put in window with slide bar?

[Barbara]

I am sure that Homer will be able to resize it.

[sentinels]

well, u could try this, it works this way as well:

Sometimes your slides load slowly when they are posted on the internet. Sometimes you click on a slide and the next one will open right up: on others there are blank boxes where you want pictures to be. What is going on here?
Computer pictures are made up of many tiny individual dots called pixels. The information for each pixel has to be downloaded from the World Bulders web site to your screen. The more pixels there are, the longer it takes.

A big picture takes longer than a little one.

If you have a big picture, there are two ways to get a little picture onto your screen from it.

One way is to insert the big picture and make it smaller using the little buttons on the square around it. This looks small, but it takes a long time to load because the computer is loading the original big picture and then shrinking it.

A better way is to open the big picture in Paint (or some other graphics program) and make the picture smaller BEFORE you insert it.

Important Suggestion: First make a copy of the picture that you are resizing.

Go to SAVE AS

Click on the folder picture in the command bar to make a new folder.

Call your folder Resized Pictures and save your resized pictures into this folder.

You can move the picture to another file or insert it into PowerPoint when you are ready.

Why is this a good idea?

Every time that you change the size of a picture you loose picture quality.

Having an untouched copy of the picture available allows you allows you to use a fresh picture for your final changes.

If you try to make pictures bigger they will get blurry. If you make pictures smaller and then bigger they will get blurry too.

You can change picture size in Paint by going to IMAGE STRETCH/SKEW. Choose the STRETCH section in the upper part of the window. Try changing it to 80% in both the horizontal and vertical boxes. Adjust until you have a picture that is about the size of the picture that you want to see on the screen. Click OK.