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Why are avatars such poor quality on this

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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Why are avatars such poor quality on this

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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
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?

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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Not sure what monitor you're using but it looks pretty grainy to me.

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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
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

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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
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.

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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Toot toot.....next train to geekville....


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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Coxey wrote:
Toot toot.....next train to geekville....


 
says the guy in a stormtrooper outfit!
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