avatars

[bikerchick68]

Hi all... I have searched and searched for a good cycling avatar that I can use on the 3 forums I visit... sigh... where do you get your cycling avatars???

I'd really like to find a cool one... some of yours are awesome! Thanks for any links and help!

[Irulan]

You can use any digital image. Mine is a pic of me, run through some photoshop filters.

irulan

[SadieKate]

But what do you do if Photoshop smarter than you are?

[LBTC]

Mine is just me. a photo from a race, cropped and resized in a free program called Irfanview. It might be smarter than me, but I can use it adequately. ;) and so can you!

Namaste,
~T~

[Irulan]

But what do you do if Photoshop smarter than you are?


lol, I didn't say that **I** made it, some one made it for me... :D


omigosh, my 1000th post, let's have a party!!!

[DeniseGoldberg]

But what do you do if Photoshop smarter than you are?

I use Adobe Photoshop Elements - it's much more reasonably priced than the full photoshop product although I'm sure it's missing the more "professional" features. It has what I need though. I suspect other tools have similar features.

To create an avatar, I open the picture I want to use. Then I request Save for web. That brings up a window that shows me the photo and lets me specify a size in pixels. Since the TE guidelines - stated on the User CP Edit Avatar page - are "100 pixels by 100 pixels or 9.8 kb, whichever is smaller", I just started with adjusting the width or height (whichever was longer) to 100. That created my little picture.

If you don't have a tool like photoshop, I'd go along with LBTC's recommendation of using the free tool IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/).

[SadieKate]

omigosh, my 1000th post, let's have a party!!!

Someone get out the kazoos and balloons :p :) ;) :eek: !!!!

[SadieKate]

And, look at that! I have an avatar!!! I just have to find a clearer one now but at least it worked.

Bikopelli just didn't show. I think the contrast on this one is a bit better.

[LBTC]

sweet pic, sadiekate! Is that really a big ring? wouldn't that be fun on your fave mtn bike?

Namaste,
~T~

[SadieKate]

Thanks! It's an antique french chainring from the very eary 20th century. Ton of historical bike history stuff out on the web.

[CorsairMac]

Thanks so much for the website.........I had a photo print software but it wasn't letting me do what I needed to do to make an avatar! now!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wheeeeeeeeeee

I will say tho - I Really liked the chainring avatar so I may keep this one for a few days and then switch back! Thanks again for everyones help!

ps this is right in front of my home @ 6500' give or take a few hundred...see the mountain in the background? - the one @ 10,700? :rolleyes:my commute takes me down about 800-1000' every morning and climbs back up that every night! yippee-skippee!!