Ok, so it's getting late on a friday and i figure i need an avatar. only problem is, when i go to my profile and click the change avatar button, i get the following error message:

ADMINISTRATOR: You MUST revert your modifyoptions template

could someone guide me on this one?

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Can't see what you can do! Try resetting your edit options to defaults and re-enter your preferences

 

I've been having a play around myself, I was beginning to feel a bit left out without one. I cam up with some real snazzy ones but unfortuantely they always blew the 5K limit so I'll have to make do with this one.

 

That 5K limit is a Sod!

Love that Avatar!

 

Probably teaching grandmother - sorry!
Do you use this?
http://www.optiview.com/
Reduces byte consumption of jpg's & gifs until you get the size/quality balance you need.
Will deal with images off your local disk or whatever server you have them on.
Found it v useful.
No - I don't have shares!
Memory says you can do a few for free.

 

Jason, that is one damn fine avatar!

 

Mikerich:

Thanks for the heads up on Optview, I'll have a play with it one of the days. Most of the image manipulation/photo packages offer compression and optimisation of gifs. There's no real probs meeting the avatar criteria with still images, it's the animated ones that are a sod. You end up removing frames and reducing the number of colours /size of image till there just isn't the quality left to be usable. What we need is a size limit of about 5 meg for avatars!



j/k

 

Think of the poor b*****d with a 56k modem!
Yes got Photoshop and much of Adobe - but nothing I've got seems to work as well as this online sw.
What do you use for animation?

 

Just out of interest.
This is what it does to Jason's super avatar

original 2625bytes

1567bytes

1901bytes

 

I've got Photoshop, Corel 8 and Paintshop Pro.I hardly use Photoshop. Most of the stuff I do is photo restoration. Without a doubt Paintshop Pro is the best value out there at the moment. In the retouching tools it has a pushtool which basically works by picking up the colour/density from whichever pixel area you place it on and you just push the image around with it . Coupled with a grahics tablet and pen it is simply a superb retouching tool, particularly where there are no underlying textures which have to be tediously cloned Both of the other packages have similar 'smeary' tools but none of them behave as well as this one. With regard to animations; Paintshop Pro comes with Animation Shop which allows you to create, edit and save .gif and other animation formats. It's very easy to use. There are usually loads of trial versions of it knocking about on freebie C.D.'s with computer mags.I think it's just under