avatar thingy!

can some of u mods take the pic from my album

and make it my avatar?

i always have trouble resising and stuff!

thx 8)

 

k thx dude!

howabout the only pic with my whole bike in it!

can u do that one?

the one w/the saddle bags

'ill try and get some more pics!

 

done!!

thx dude!

when i get a better pic i'll let u know!!

 

Here's another edit of your pic - my photo editor says it's within the specs for avitar but I didn't test it, let me know if it's too large to work and I will make it samller!

 

Here's another option from your photo......

 

thx u2!

 

Hi guys,
Hey I was wondering also how to put a picture of my bike in the avatar thingy also!
I feel bad for that guy with a question mark stamped on his face where it says user info - :lol:
Im not sure how to resize the picture and then put it in the avatar thingy!
Can you guys tell me how to do it?
Thanks!

Lawnie

 

You can resize the picture in Paint but it is a pain... if you had access to photoshop it would be easier... also some of the freeware programs are really good too - gimp for example.

What tools do you have?

 

Hi woot,
All I have to work with is "Paint" ya its not a very good software.
I will look into some new software.
I haven't done much on computers with photo's.

Lawnie
PS - Thanks for the camshaft info on another forum!

 

Well - paint isn't bad per se - it's just that it really isn't very good at resizing pictures... it's good for doodling and making simple images.

One other thing - if you have windows XP you can get an image resizer from microsoft ( Power Toys ) that is actually pretty good I hear...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/down ... rtoys.mspx

 

Hey woot,
My girlfriend seen what I was trying to do and she took over the computer and BAM!!!! she was done and the picture was there! Man she is such a wiz at this type of stuff. I will just stick to turning wrenches!
Thanks for your help! And thanks to my girlfriend Amanda - not only is she smart but beautiful too! How lucky can I be?

 

oki got the resize thing thx woot!

just one more question,

does that work with paint or what?

 

No - it is a seperate tool...

Select the image

The right click it - pick "Resize image"

Click the advanced option ( to pick a non-standard size)

Type in the image size constraints... 90 wide, 90 tall.

It'll make a new file called "OLD NAME (CUSTOM).JPG"

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some notes to improve it's performance. Notice how the output image is trying to be square. It'll make the image no wider than 90 and no taller than 90. If the image used to be 2:1 ratio ( ie 600 wide, 300 tall) then the output image will be 90 by 45 pixels... lots of wasted height. If the source image is close to square you'll get better results.

To make the source image more square (if it was a problem) make a copy of the image. In paint select a square part of the picture you want to keep with one of the marquee type tools. Select copy from the menu. On the lower right corner pull the image size smaller - really small. The go to paste - it'll paste the square image into the picture... it'll resize the image from the small area you made a second ago and it'll take the shape of the area you selected... meaning it is a square image. Save this file with a different name than the original. Then exit paint - and resize it - should fix the non-square problem you might have been having.

Cheers,
woot.

 

ok thx dude!

 

She can turn a wrench too maybe?

 

Robert,
Yes sir....! She can turn a wrench also....!