What's with the avatars?

What's with the off-site avatars havin to be under 6 kb?
I mean, look how crappy my avatar looks...

[EDIT] Look How SWEET it looks since the guys here hooked me UP, 8).

What's the best / smallest picture type to use there?
I wanna have a pic of my bike in the new paint, but the quality is so bad by the time I get it reduced that you wouldn't be able to tell if it was a black Seca or a Pink Lincoln.

 

If you want you can send me the pic you want to use and I can try to make it work. I am pretty good with the photo shop.

 

It took me a while to get mine right... it requires patience and photoshop.

 

Thanks for the offor.
I decided to do the same crappy job I did with the avatar I have now (the red bike).. Just reduce it in paint to 100th of it's size and save it as a .gif...

However, once I go take a few nice pics of the bike (out in the sun instead of in my garage) I MAY just take you up on your offor.
8)

 

Ease, I took the liberty:

Enjoy!

 

Thanks!

 

Hey, If anyone feels like doing the photoshop treatment on this Pic (i.e. reduce to avatar size):



I'd be very grateful.
Maybe I should get photoshop myself... I've tried it before and just find it confusing (too used to Microsoft Paint).

 

Will this one work for you ease?

 

Yahtzee!

 

Shoot. Ya beat me.

 

Woo Hoo.
Man you guys work fast... Thanks!! I'll be needing another one once I get my new indicators on there. LOL.

Now... Which one did I choose? Hmmmmmm

Thanks again guys.

- Ease

 

Black hills, yours looks sharper than mine.

What'd you use?

 

I used Photoshop CS2 to reduce it and then hit it with an un-sharpen mask. For some reason it always seems to work rather well when reducing an image by allot rather than using the standard sharpening tool. Other than that I haven't done anything to it.

 

I guess that means my secret has been revealed too...
I used Blackhills_XJ's pic because of the clarity 8)

 

Any chance one of you geniuses could resize this for me to avatar size??

 

Alive, try this one (now let's hope it works)

 

Looks Good... Thanks Beard

 

Damn... It's too big... needs to be less than 6kb

 

I resized it but couldn't sharpen it up... Oh well it's a start

 

this may work a little better...

 

Good stuff... Thanks Gremlin

 

Down load a program called Easy Thumbnail.
Easy to use. and free.

 

I know its not an avatar but I started this this morning before I had to leave for work and and just had a chance to add the text to it. I would kill to get this bike in front of an actual old style cafe. Any way here is a little desktop I did up for you ease.

 

Hey, Thanks alot!

Funny thng is I allready had my background set to the original Pic - Looks sweet with the fading and the text!

 

Ease,
Did this hope u don't mind
adds age
Ferret

 

No way man, I'm completely flattered.
I'm happy that you guys thought enough of my build to fool around with the pics. Not that I would have regretted it - but it really makes the hard work worth it.

...Considering actually putting the bike in a show or 2 this summer now. Too bad I never painted the frame and motor (silver) like I wanted - But I do ride this thing everyday in the summer, so it'll get a little thrashed.

 

Can someone make me an avatar with this?



Thanks

 

Your wish is granted:

 

excellent!! Thanks.

 

New turn signals = new avatar... If only there was some way to get this right...
Hahah, Anyone feel like helping me out?
Old:

New:


...Hey cool - I just noticed looking at this post and the old avatar side-by-side what a difference it really made. 8)