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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:13 pm    Post subject: How to post an avatar (profile picture) Reply with quote

I searched but didnt find what i needed. How do i post an avatar? i have a few pics i would like to make one for on here


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The avatar is uploaded via your Control Panel on the site.
There is a link in the upper-left of the site, if you are logged in.
Direct Control Panel link

If you can't figure out how to resize or add it, email the full size photo to Everett at [email protected] and I will add it for you.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You'll need to resize the picture with a photo editing program, then you can upload it - its the very last option on your Control Panel page.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/profile.php?mode=editprofile

Your photo will have to be under 100x100 pixels and less than 8KB total file size.

For photo editing and resizing, I use a french freeware program called PhotoFiltre, myself. A lot of people use some version or other of PhotoShop.

And here's a thread that talks about photo resizing.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And The Gimp is a good phote manipulation program.
Best thing, it is free. Almost as good as Photoshop.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get a free photobucket.com account. There is a feature that will size it to "avatar" size.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could also upload the picture, if it is VW related, to the gallery. Then use the thumbnail for an avatar. Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i used the thumbnail url from my flickr.com site into "the pic from a website" under the download from your computer line

my infranview wouldn't work for me
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

busfreak_71 wrote:
You could also upload the picture, if it is VW related, to the gallery. Then use the thumbnail for an avatar. Smile


I thought I would expand on this, especially since now the Gallery has larger thumbnails, ones that are too large to use as avatars.

To grab an avatar-size image from a Gallery entry, click on the Gallery photo so that all you see in your browser is the photo.
The web address in your browser will be something like this:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/794468.jpg
The small thumbnail address, the one you could use for an avatar will be:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/thumbnails/794468.jpg
Example:
Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen.


You have to add the thumbnails address in the address to access the smaller image.

You can use that address in your Control Panel to add the image to your profile. Enter the address in this box in your Control Panel:
Upload Avatar from a URL
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just figured out how to do this on Picasa.

Choose your photo.
Save a copy.
select the copy.
Under File click Export to folder
resize to 100.

Then just browse from the upload from machine and choose the resized image.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tried to upload an avatar for about 4 times. It just won't work....... what shall i do? It's 100*100 px alright.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nazeem Duren wrote:
I tried to upload an avatar for about 4 times. It just won't work....... what shall i do? It's 100*100 px alright.

I bet it's size is too large.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Glenn wrote:
Nazeem Duren wrote:
I tried to upload an avatar for about 4 times. It just won't work....... what shall i do? It's 100*100 px alright.

I bet it's size is too large.

Yes, check the file size on disk.

You may have to do a "Save As..." in your image program and change the JPG compression ratio. I use 85% in the program I have. This is 15% compression, in case your program uses a different sort of scale.

Or email it me at [email protected] and I can add it for you.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:32 pm    Post subject: Thanks Reply with quote

Yeah got it. Size was the problem Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In photoshop I've got the image down to 80x80 and low quality and it's still to large for an av. Confused
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe in Photoshop you want to do a "Save for Web..." in order to get it to a reasonable size.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

EverettB wrote:
I believe in Photoshop you want to do a "Save for Web..." in order to get it to a reasonable size.


Thank Ev! I've been trying to change my Av for a while now. I leave it and then I try it and then I get frustrated and leave it. Not that I want to forget HBB, but just something new.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rock on Ev! Thank you again.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

resized resized and resized, now down to 10.1kb and its still saying it needs to be less than 12kb.... eeerrrr well it is. So why wont it up load ?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure but feel free to email it to me...
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Went back to it today and indeed it still said size 10.1 but it also said size on disc 16kb.
dont know what all this is about but I resized again untill i got it to size on disc 12kb and it uploaded fine although looking a little small.

Ive been sold that size doesn't matter many times so all is good Laughing

Thanks anyway EverettB
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 8:09 am    Post subject: Thanks for the replies Reply with quote

I can get the photos to 100x100 pixels, but 76kb is the smallest I can compress, I haven't tried the save as tip that I just read. If that doesn't work , I will email it.
Thanks again
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