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Get your ava/sig optimized to fit the rules

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Okay, I'm getting really tired of removing people's avas and sigs.

The maximum size for your ava is 25 KB, and 50 KB for your sig.

If for some reason you feel you have to have a certain image but it's too big, post it here and I can optimize it for you without losing quality.

Most, if not all images can be optimized to a much smaller size.

But please, once I optimize it for you, re-upload it to your own space and don't hot link off of me.
 
I say we increase the maximum sig size to 800x600 and strictly limit actual posts to no more than three words.
example: lol, i agree!

edit: what I mean to say is, I'd be glad to help on the optimizing task, under the same conditions as jumpman17.
 
QUOTE(Katalyst @ Feb 7 2007 said:
Just realized that both my avatar and signature surpassed the limits. Should be good now. Optimized and fixed ;o
Click to expand...

Hoorah! One less to deal with. Thank you for fixing your file size.
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Umm...yes? I can't tell if your joking or not though. What could possibly be that big?
 
Jumpman: Fantastic idea!
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sgadzookie80: Dice gets away with it cause his sig is brilliant and makes us smile
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Here you go:
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Anyways, most of the pictures should work fine at the largest size.

1. Open your avatar in IrfanView.
2. Save as PNG or GIF. In the options menu, choose either 6 or higher level of compression.

That's it. This won't affect the quality at all, since PNG is a lossless format. I still wonder, why JPEG is used nowadays. PNG or GIF are sooo much better. I can understand it's use for photos (eventually, at larger filesizes JPEG beats PNG in quality/filesize ratio), but not work network graphics ...
BTW, wouldn't a simple PHP script allow you to remove the avatars too big?
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Well, since the image is really 128 x 128 pixels and you have it shrunk to 64 x 64 pixels through the forum settings, that is wasted space file size.

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Originally: 4.38 KB
Now: 2.88 KB
 

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