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Astral Chat => Welcome to Astral Chat! => Topic started by: Squeek on June 09, 2003, 13:48:23

Title: avatars
Post by: Squeek on June 09, 2003, 13:48:23
try this.  Goto  www.google.com and type in "buddy icons"

then click the first link.  The name of the site has a "curse" word that i dont want to say, so i didn;t post the direct link.  BTW, pothead came from there :D

~Squeek
Title: avatars
Post by: Nick on June 09, 2003, 18:50:41
I went to http://www.e-cadfael.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Avatars.htm and searched their collection of about 700 avatars.

Very best,
Title: avatars
Post by: PeacefulWarrior on June 09, 2003, 18:56:15
I too have had difficulty with this.  Your best bet is to find a larger image yuo like and to downsize it yourself.  If you want, you can just email it to me as an attachment and I will downsize it and then you can submit it to Adrian.

Title: avatars
Post by: Nick on June 10, 2003, 05:36:07
The avatar at left is a new one. I had to see if I remembered how to do it. The way I did it was to go to http://www.e-cadfael.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Avatars.htm and pick out an avatar. Then I right-clicked on the photo. In the drop-down menu I selected "save picture as", then saved it to the "my pictures" folder (although you can save it to any location you want).

Then I opened up the little box here at the astral pulse for uploading your photo/avatar. In the right portioon of the box I clicked on the "browse" button. Then the "my pictures" folder, then I highlighted the photo by left-clicking on it, then clicked on "open" at the bottom right of the "my pictures" folder box.

The last step saved it to the Astral Pulse (upload) box. Then a few hours later, after the photo was approved, I looked and found it in the "Avatar Legend" section. Then I went to my "Member Profile" and selected it and clicked "submit".

The operating system I use is Windows XP which has a "My Pictures" folder which like a number of other features on XP, is more intuitive than its predecessors. However, I believe saving the photo to another folder, even one you create for the purpose, will do.

Best of luck,
Title: avatars
Post by: Adrian on June 10, 2003, 06:24:35
Greetings everyone,

Could I taek this opportinity to remind everyone to please ensure that Avatars are as close to 64x64 pixels as possible. I cannot validate ones that are significantly outside those dimensions - and I see alot - some over ten times that size!  The system automatically sizes them, but if they are not more less the right shape or size to start with,the image quality is seriously diminished, and it also affects loading times.

As for sources of Avatars - a google search on Avatars will yield plenty of sites [:)]

With best regards,

Adrian.
Title: avatars
Post by: Terry B on June 10, 2003, 07:32:02
Can we delete our already uploaded avatar? If we can't, what will happen if we upload avatar with the same name? Will it be overwritten?

Title: avatars
Post by: Tisha on June 10, 2003, 09:39:14
I just want to let everyone know that I've succeeded (I think) in getting one up, a picture of Elvira.  Ha Ha!  Hope the cleavage does not offend.
Title: avatars
Post by: bomohwkl on June 24, 2003, 10:27:48
my avatar is up!![:)]
Title: avatars
Post by: eeb on June 24, 2003, 14:24:01
Hello,

The avatar of Tisha leaves no doubt [8D] (yeah Tisha, you got a nice one there), but what is your one Bomohwkl? To me it looks like part of a centipede rising up?
Title: avatars
Post by: bomohwkl on June 24, 2003, 17:54:29
The avator is me from the Kirlian perspective. It is the Kirlian image of my thumb.Just a bit unconvetional and look meaningless to other people.
Title: avatars
Post by: clandestino on June 25, 2003, 03:47:56
Unconventional ?! It looks like a comb full of hair !!!!
Title: avatars
Post by: phi on June 25, 2003, 11:17:05
I've tried uploading on 2 different computers and always get redirected to this error....

    The page cannot be found

    The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Thoughts?
Title: avatars
Post by: bomohwkl on June 25, 2003, 17:35:39
Now I changed to Buddha.....
Title: avatars
Post by: phi on June 26, 2003, 09:37:32
I can upload avatars. I was trying to upload *.JPEG files and this would always error. *.JPG and *.GIF work. All I had to do was change the extension.
Title: avatars
Post by: Arc on June 26, 2003, 14:51:06
wut is an avatar[?]
Title: avatars
Post by: Nick on June 26, 2003, 15:09:47
phi,

Your avatar looks great! [:D]

Arc,

an avatar is the little picture that people have at the left of the screen under their name.

Very best,
Title: avatars
Post by: dino333 on June 26, 2003, 17:30:05
great avatar site, squeek!
Title: avatars
Post by: Tisha on June 09, 2003, 12:00:58
[?]  Can anyone recommend a free avatars website?  I went to freeavatars.com but none of their pictures would upload to my personal profile.  Rats, I'm frustrated.  I was kind of hoping for a picture of me looking 20, HA HA HA