Applying Avatars
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Applying Avatars
Almost every avatar I try to apply is rejected because it "the file is too large". Apparently they have too many bytes, but I don't understand why. How can I make them have less bytes? The avatar I have at the moment was too large, so I just edited it, turning it black and white, then negative. I added the text myself, as well. The problem is, most of the avatars I have won't look good this way, or just won't show up well. Besides this or making the image smaller, is there anything I can do?
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"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28
"Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world out there that lives outside ourselves and our dreams." --Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist
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[color="RoyalBlue"][font="Trebuchet MS"]The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it and ultimately align ourselves with who we really are. Life, experiences, traumas -- whatever -- they all add up to make you some altered version of what you are. So there's this battle that goes on between what you are and what you become, and it's been very important for me to unravel what I was taught to be or what I became. and to draw a direct parallel to music -- the closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets..." --Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins frontman)[/font][/color]
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"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28
"Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world out there that lives outside ourselves and our dreams." --Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist
“To put alcohol in the human is like putting sand in the bearing of an engine." --Thomas Edison
[color="RoyalBlue"][font="Trebuchet MS"]The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it and ultimately align ourselves with who we really are. Life, experiences, traumas -- whatever -- they all add up to make you some altered version of what you are. So there's this battle that goes on between what you are and what you become, and it's been very important for me to unravel what I was taught to be or what I became. and to draw a direct parallel to music -- the closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets..." --Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins frontman)[/font][/color]
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Fionn Fael - Posts: 197
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Saving it as a .gif as opposed to a JPEG will help reduce the file size; though of course you'll lose quite a lot of quality. ^_^" But maybe a .png would work better. See how it goes.
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[Quote=Photosoph]Well, t'was a good deduction, Mr. Holmes! *salutes Mr. Myoti Sherlock Homes* [/QUOTE]
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[Quote=Photosoph]Well, t'was a good deduction, Mr. Holmes! *salutes Mr. Myoti Sherlock Homes* [/QUOTE]
Myoti wrote:Elementary, my dear Watsoph. XD
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I figured out that one of my editing programs can compress images so that the quality is kept almost exactly the same, but the bytes it takes up are much less. The avatar I have now is the one I was trying to get to work, so I'm set now! I feel so silly. 
Thanks for the help anyway, everyone!
Thanks for the help anyway, everyone!Formerly known as haru_bay_nay
Avatar by: tinamakesicons(LiveJournal.com)
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28
"Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world out there that lives outside ourselves and our dreams." --Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist
“To put alcohol in the human is like putting sand in the bearing of an engine." --Thomas Edison
[color="RoyalBlue"][font="Trebuchet MS"]The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it and ultimately align ourselves with who we really are. Life, experiences, traumas -- whatever -- they all add up to make you some altered version of what you are. So there's this battle that goes on between what you are and what you become, and it's been very important for me to unravel what I was taught to be or what I became. and to draw a direct parallel to music -- the closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets..." --Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins frontman)[/font][/color]
Adopted by KhakiBlueSocks!
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Avatar by: tinamakesicons(LiveJournal.com)
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28
"Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world out there that lives outside ourselves and our dreams." --Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist
“To put alcohol in the human is like putting sand in the bearing of an engine." --Thomas Edison
[color="RoyalBlue"][font="Trebuchet MS"]The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it and ultimately align ourselves with who we really are. Life, experiences, traumas -- whatever -- they all add up to make you some altered version of what you are. So there's this battle that goes on between what you are and what you become, and it's been very important for me to unravel what I was taught to be or what I became. and to draw a direct parallel to music -- the closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets..." --Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins frontman)[/font][/color]
Adopted by KhakiBlueSocks!
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Fionn Fael - Posts: 197
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You're welcome. ^_^ Glad you got your avatar to work.
And I agree, Shao; sometimes a .gif can look better than a really low-quality JPEG.
And I agree, Shao; sometimes a .gif can look better than a really low-quality JPEG.
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[Quote=Photosoph]Well, t'was a good deduction, Mr. Holmes! *salutes Mr. Myoti Sherlock Homes* [/QUOTE]
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[Quote=Photosoph]Well, t'was a good deduction, Mr. Holmes! *salutes Mr. Myoti Sherlock Homes* [/QUOTE]
Myoti wrote:Elementary, my dear Watsoph. XD
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Photosoph - Posts: 1528
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Don't use PNGs unless they don't have any transparency in them. Internet Explorer 6 and below don't support PNGs so the transparency becomes this ugly gray/peach/brown mess that is just nasty to see. Personally I say stick with gif, since usually avatars are so small that any loss in quality compared to jpeg isn't noticiable.
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MyrrhLynn - Posts: 777
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For anime-based avatars, the color limitation isn't really noticeable with GIFs, but for more photographic avatars it can be really noticeable.
I'd suggest playing around with the jpeg compression levels for those.
I'd suggest playing around with the jpeg compression levels for those.
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Don't use PNGs unless they don't have any transparency in them. Internet Explorer 6 and below don't support PNGs so the transparency becomes this ugly gray/peach/brown mess that is just nasty to see. Personally I say stick with gif, since usually avatars are so small that any loss in quality compared to jpeg isn't noticiable.
Wow. I didn't know that. Good information to know, so thanks for that. I'll keep that in mind for the future when I'm working with PNGs.
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[Quote=Photosoph]Well, t'was a good deduction, Mr. Holmes! *salutes Mr. Myoti Sherlock Homes* [/QUOTE]
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[Quote=Photosoph]Well, t'was a good deduction, Mr. Holmes! *salutes Mr. Myoti Sherlock Homes* [/QUOTE]
Myoti wrote:Elementary, my dear Watsoph. XD
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