Author Topic: Avatar size limit [solved]  (Read 1009 times)

The system is loving me still; the photo uploads with white edges, so I save the photo and remove them, and I upload it again just to look exactly the same.

Thank you, this worked! Thank you also to everyone who tried to find a solution for me.
idk if you're planning to, but a lot of people do it. please don't lock this thread. and don't edit everything out of the OP
actually, you've done exactly what you should have. you kept the original OP and title, just adding a link to the solution in the OP and an indication that it was solved in the title

if you did edit everything out, people might get confused if they were looking for a solution later and came across this thread. either way, my post would still be there, but it's just not ideal
and keeping the title the same makes it easy to find in a search
not locking it lets people actually post in it later, if they weren't able to fix it with my solution, and assuming it was less than two months after the last post. that way, another thread isn't made, and we already know what they've tried

honestly, judging by the fact that you did the right things in the first place, I probably don't need to tell you this. but it's always good for everyone else to know, and if needed I could link to it another time and avoid writing it up again
The system is loving me still; the photo uploads with white edges, so I save the photo and remove them, and I upload it again just to look exactly the same.
upload the image to imgur and link it here. that doesn't sound like something the forum's ever done, so I'm guessing it's unrelated

idk if you're planning to, but a lot of people do it. please don't lock this thread. and don't edit everything out of the OP
actually, you've done exactly what you should have. you kept the original OP and title, just adding a link to the solution in the OP and an indication that it was solved in the title

if you did edit everything out, people might get confused if they were looking for a solution later and came across this thread. either way, my post would still be there, but it's just not ideal
and keeping the title the same makes it easy to find in a search
not locking it lets people actually post in it later, if they weren't able to fix it with my solution, and assuming it was less than two months after the last post. that way, another thread isn't made, and we already know what they've tried

honestly, judging by the fact that you did the right things in the first place, I probably don't need to tell you this. but it's always good for everyone else to know, and if needed I could link to it another time and avoid writing it up againupload the image to imgur and link it here. that doesn't sound like something the forum's ever done, so I'm guessing it's unrelated

Wasn't planning on it, I know what you mean.

By the way, here it is, before my attempt to remove the white. I used a smudge tool earlier on and it came back to haunt me, I think. I tried removing all the light gray, white pixels, which shouldn't even be visible from a normal view because of how small the actual image is, but it still was showing exactly the same in the avatar on the BLF blue background.

save it as a png-24 when you save for web


By the way, here it is, before my attempt to remove the white. I used a smudge tool earlier on and it came back to haunt me, I think. I tried removing all the light gray, white pixels, which shouldn't even be visible from a normal view because of how small the actual image is, but it still was showing exactly the same in the avatar on the BLF blue background.
can you show us the original? it would be a lot easier to correct it using the image you started with rather than the one that's already edited and reszied

edit: the way I've written this might imply that it's what I wanted in the first place but it's not! I wanted you to upload it to imgur before so that I could see whether or not it actually was a forum issue, and now that I know it isn't, fixing the problem is relatively simple
« Last Edit: September 27, 2015, 10:01:49 PM by Foxscotch »

save it as a png-24 when you save for web



Sorry to say, this did nothing to help it. woops

can you show us the original? it would be a lot easier to correct it using the image you started with rather than the one that's already edited and reszied

edit: the way I've written this might imply that it's what I wanted in the first place but it's not! I wanted you to upload it to imgur before so that I could see whether or not it actually was a forum issue, and now that I know it isn't, fixing the problem is relatively simple

Do you mean for me to upload the .psd file, with the image cropped out that I am using for my avatar, somewhere so that it isn't being touched by any compression, or just the photo in a .png directly after being converted from .psd?
« Last Edit: September 27, 2015, 10:12:31 PM by Sami2ss »

edit: the way I've written this might imply that it's what I wanted in the first place but it's not! I wanted you to upload it to imgur before so that I could see whether or not it actually was a forum issue, and now that I know it isn't, fixing the problem is relatively simple
the reason the edges are white is because when you just Save as Web without changing anything there isn't any alpha compositing

Do you mean for me to upload the .psd file, with the image cropped out that I am using for my avatar, somewhere so that it isn't being touched by any compression, or just the photo in a .png directly after being converted from .psd?
I mean the image you got from google images or whatever in the first place. before you cropped it or anything

I mean the image you got from google images or whatever in the first place. before you cropped it or anything

I suppose if you are going to crop it yourself or something, pixel by pixel, I could do that myself. Otherwise, this is the image.

Edit: I did what Trogtor told me to do with the .psd file that was directly cropped from the original image, and the white trimmings are gone.
« Last Edit: September 27, 2015, 10:13:45 PM by Sami2ss »

great! thats one more case, solved by the great blockland forum

just a little protip

some transparency settings dont allow for your image to have any alpha compositing. (or partial transparency) gifs are one of theses filetypes

-look below-

also if it looks any better feel free to use the png-24 example as an avatar

posting this here because blue background


png-24

gif/png-8

Holy forget... I was testing new avatars and I set this one as a joke intending to keep it for 5 minutes to joke about with my brother... But now it is stuck and I cant get any other avatars to work.