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Title: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: on May 31, 2007, 03:30:52 PM

I just found a nice picture for myself on the web and wanted to use it as my avatar.

The little tool in the profile editor says it has to be 100x100 pixels or less so I scaled it down to 99x85... a nice little JPEG file...

But everytime I try to upload it the website gives me the error message "no image uploaded"...

Any particular reason?

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: on May 31, 2007, 03:50:40 PM

DUH! It doesn't take JPEG... it has to be a .gif... like I was supposed to know!!!

It sure doesn't filter out in the requester...

 :madashell:

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: Framiga on May 31, 2007, 04:49:51 PM

was the jpg less than 10K?

as you can see jpgs are accepted ;-)

oh well the current one its a transparent gif (experimenting a bit)

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: mgerics on May 31, 2007, 05:01:45 PM

@eslapion: So, you have images all over the web, eh ? Kinky!
BTW, (as of this reply) I never met anyone who really looked like a computer chip...

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: on May 31, 2007, 07:14:18 PM

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mgerics wrote:
@eslapion: So, you have images all over the web, eh ? Kinky!
BTW, (as of this reply) I never met anyone who really looked like a computer chip...

Hummm... As I said above, I found a picture FOR myself and not OF myself... :-D

However, if you study my avatar carefully, you will notice that I am a close relative to the Motorola 68000 processor... as a matter of fact he is a cousin of mine...  :lol:

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: meega on May 31, 2007, 07:19:37 PM

I don't know why you might be having a problem except, as has already been pointed out, your image must fit the size limits and be under 10k.

<==   6,572 bytes of jpg avatar...

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: Homer on May 31, 2007, 07:22:27 PM

No problem here  :-?

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: on May 31, 2007, 07:50:27 PM

The JPG file was 21k in size...

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: CannonFodder on May 31, 2007, 08:13:42 PM

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eslapion wrote:
The JPG file was 21k in size...

That's why then.

The avatar upload (http://www.amiga.org/edituser.php?op=avatarform) page clearly states:-

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Max Pixels   100 x 100
Max Image Size (Bytes)   10000

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: orange on May 31, 2007, 08:30:40 PM

its clear that your avatar isn't much compressible, because it contains a lot of details (sharp lines). you will need to blur it so that jpg can make it small enough. maybe gif/png is better solution in your case

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org "avatar allergic" ??
Post by: alphonsus on June 21, 2007, 11:41:17 PM

So who else still has one of the 'old' in-built avatars?

Title: Re: Why is Amiga.org
Post by: c64_d0c on June 22, 2007, 01:14:50 AM

i just found this new one today, taken from amiga inc site...  :lol:
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