Irish Translation Forum

How does everyone get those little icons on the top left corner of your messages. I tried to scan a pic, save it, then put it on the lil thing for your icon but it says it needs to be 6KB..(i dont know wut the cripe that means) I have a picture of me that about 2in. So how do i get it to be mi icon?

I believe the paramaters are 76 x 76 pixels and 6 kb. You need to rescan the picture and make it that size and also save it as a .gif file

If you ask them nicely, you can perhaps e-mail it to a moderator or other computer wizzes here, and they can probably format it to the proper size, file, etc.

Your scanner program probably includes editing software. What you need to do is use any editing program to resize the image and to save it as a .gif file. Programs vary, but on the one I use, all you need to do is call the image up, then click on "image" and then "resize" (retaining aspect ratio)...it's pretty intuitive. Then click on "file," "save as" and then "imagename.gif."

Redwolf

yep 80 pixels high and 80 pixels wide, and not over 6 KB in file size
making it a .gif reduces the colour depth and so makes it more compact to store. If it doesn't work, then ask one of us. I find ThumbsPlus to be a neat program for making avatars. Plus it's free.

Send it to me at

conormclaughlin@orange.net



and i'll change it for u

Can you post a link to thumbs plus Lynn??? le do thoil

Conor...if u dont mind. I'll send it to u, but just so ur not freakin out thinkin who the cripe is sending me mail....Mi e-mail is IrishRebel54. So u know its me.

actually the cracked version of Thumbs Plus is no longer available Just found out

you can get a trial version at www.cerious.com