[Chefelf]

If you have a scanner it must've come with some software. If not try looking up the model number and I'm sure you'll find some stuff.

[sinister grinner]

well. this isn't the avatar i want, but it will do for now. don't get me wrong, i mean, chickens are cool. i just need to get the picture i want to become smaller than 22 kilobytes. so this will do for now. at least now i don't feel naked.

[Chefelf]

I just now figured out that Bananer's avatar says "evil inside". All this time I thought it said "cul inside". I didnt' get what that meant but I figured that Bananer knew and that was all that was important.

[sinister grinner]

now if i could just get a signature.

[sinister grinner]

[QUOTE] now if i could just get a signature.



there we go.

[civilian_number_two]

Finally got around to adding an Avatar.

Naturally, my Avatar is the second civilian option from the multiplayer option in that classic Nintendo game, GOLDENEYE. Didn't take long to find it at all. I love the internet!

Damn, When I think about it, I can't even imagine life without the internet. It's been more than five years since I entered a public library in search of a book. The last time I went in there, it was to use the public terminals to check my email. Life since the internet is so much more information-packed. Who played that guy in that film? imdb. What's the origin of that word? I dunno, check google. Can you still find this product? ebay.

When I went to college, people were typing their essays out on typewriters. In dire straits, a student could get away with submitting something *handwritten*. And for the record I, am not an old guy (35). This internet/PC revolution is not yet a decade on, and already I can't remember life before it.

Bit of a rant there, but I like to put something into a post, rather than just leave it "My Avatar's a guy from GOLDENEYE."

Mike.

[Supes]

When I went to college, people were typing their essays out on typewriters.  In dire straits, a student could get away with submitting something *handwritten*.  And for the record I, am not an old guy (35).  This internet/PC revolution is not yet a decade on, and already I can't remember life before it.

I didn't own a computer until after I left University in 1995. I also refused to use a typewriter to do up essay's or assignments. I believe I was the only person in my entire course who submitted every assignment hand written. I must admit that I took great pleasure in doing this also. It became a bit of a mission for me. Complete my degree with all assignement and essays hand written. I even managed to submit hand written papers for my computers and stats courses :-) As you can see I wasvery driven at University.

[Bananer]

I just now figured out that Bananer's avatar says "evil inside".  All this time I thought it said "cul inside".  I didnt' get what that meant but I figured that Bananer knew and that was all that was important.

Haha, chefelf, you are silly

[sinister grinner]

sillly billy. oh by the way. i still have problems with the avatar i want. you see, all the avatars i made that are the right format are too big(22 kb). and the ones small enough are all bitmap. im not a computer nerd, someone help me.

[Supes]

sillly billy. oh by the way. i still have problems with the avatar i want. you see, all the avatars i made that are the right format are too big(22 kb). and the ones small enough are all bitmap. im not a computer nerd, someone help me.

I just had the picture I'm using saved in Paint and just lowered the resolution on the image. This made it small enough to post and also resulted in the cool effect. Well I think it's cool anyway...

[barend]

I believe I was the only person in my entire course who submitted every assignment hand written. I must admit that I took great pleasure in doing this also. It became a bit of a mission for me. Complete my degree with all assignement and essays hand written.

it's just too bad it was a computer graphics class...

[Heccubus]

'Manda, you're so cul.

[Chefelf]

Finally got around to adding an Avatar.

Naturally, my Avatar is the second civilian option from the multiplayer option in that classic Nintendo game, GOLDENEYE. Didn't take long to find it at all. I love the internet!

The thing I truly love about the internet is that on this message board you can pretty much have any name you'd like (there aren't many registered users). You could be John, Frank, Tom, Clarissa, Katie, Judy. None of those names are taken. Yet people will select names like "civilian_number_two" which is so much more interesting.

Bravo to you all and your names.

[Chefelf]

well. this isn't the avatar i want, but it will do for now. don't get me wrong, i mean, chickens are cool. i just need to get the picture i want to become smaller than 22 kilobytes. so this will do for now. at least now i don't feel naked.

I set the avatar file size to be 10kb (because for a pic of that size there is really no reason it should be any bigger than that).

What you need to do is compress your graphic. If you don't have a graphics compression program then try Spinwave.com. It's a great free site where you can optimize your graphics for the web.

Select JPEG or GIF (depending ont he filetype) and then browse your computer to find the graphic. It will then give you several optimization options and you simply select the picture that is the best compromise between image quality and filesize. Then save it to your desktop.

Hope that helps.

[sinister grinner]

tried it. the only free part of it was the original graphic(for comparison). it put white x's through the other. but, is it possible to trim pieces of the graphic away manually.