Why are avatars such poor quality on this

Why are avatars such poor quality on this

Even when I constrain a good quality image into 80x80 pixels in Photoshop, the picture ends up looking like rubbish once I upload it to this site. Looking around, all avatars look like sh*t so I'm not alone here.

Why are avatars such poor quality on this site?

Nothing wrong with mine.

Not sure what monitor you're using but it looks pretty grainy to me.

Edit:


I suspect the issue is that, even though the site says to use an 80x80 image, the site displays an image larger than this and hence blows up the smaller image, lowering the quality.

I'll try a larger image as avatar and see how that goes.
Arsenal2008-08-02 12:19:10

Great, that resolved the problem.

The optimal size for an avatar is 100x100 it seems - you should change this info on the edit profile page.

Toot toot.....next train to geekville....