How do I format an atavar?

[Duck on Wheels]

I want this (hope this link works) : http://www.pluto.no/kulturspeilet/faste/art/bildemag/A/Warhol/Skriket.jpg
as my atavar, along with a subtext "The Hills! The Hills!"
Can anybody give me a simple recipe to follow to do this? I've got the image downloaded and text edited in, but can't get it into the 100 x 100 pixel format. I'm not a total computer dunce, but pretty far from geek-level competence.

[bcipam]

Do you have photo editing software such as Photoimpression, Adobe or Photo Impact? If so, if you open the image - go to edit to size the image. Once there, change percent to pixels, make sure the image reads no more than 100 X 100 pixels... and save it in My Pictures. You cannot size the image on this website.

Then go to the avatar setting hit browse, find My pictures, upload your image and go from there...

[Adventure Girl]

Let's see if this works. I saved your image and resized it two different sizes.

You right click on the one you want and save it to your hard drive.

Then you change your avatar on the user control panel.

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[Adventure Girl]

Here's one a little smaller
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[Duck on Wheels]

Thanks! I was using Paint and the % shrink method. I've got a couple of photo editing programs tho. Maybe they'll let me specify pixels, and add the text, and cut the image square. I may also try another version of The Scream (black and white woodcut version may stay clearer when shrunk). If I don't get it right on my own now, then I'll use one of the ones Adventure Girl downsized. :)

[bcipam]

If you can't figure it out, send me the photo at bcipam@yahoo.com and Ill fix it for you and mail it back.

[Duck on Wheels]

Hmmmm. Got it cut down square and formatted to 100x100, but now the board response is that it is "not a valid file". Wrong file type? Or maybe there's a copyright tag on the file (fair enough, I am ripping off Warhol, who in turn was imitating Munch). Maybe I have to redraw this myself. Or find something else that's legal.

[DeniseGoldberg]

Hmmmm. Got it cut down square and formatted to 100x100, but now the board response is that it is "not a valid file". Wrong file type?

What file type did you use? Try .jpg or .bmp as the type if the file is currently a different type.

--- Denise

[Duck on Wheels]

It's .bmp, so that shouldn't be a problem. Or does it have to be jpeg?

[DeniseGoldberg]

It's .bmp, so that shouldn't be a problem. Or does it have to be jpeg?

Yup, you're right. I just re-saved my avatar picture as a .bmp and I couldn't use it. It does work when saved as .jpg.

--- Denise

[Duck on Wheels]

OK. I'll try the Warhol version again with .jpg later. Meanwhile, this one from today's Norwegian e-newspaper seems to work (there's a trial going on about the theft of the picture).

[bcipam]

CONGRATS! You got the avatar posted!!!! Now the fun - resizing and changing out avatars regularly. Although I like the one you have up now.

[fixedgeargirl]

The avatar looks great. Oh, the hills!!!!!!!:D

[Adventure Girl]

Hey, I know this thread is really old, but I brought it back up because I just read that 'The Scream' and another stolen masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch were recovered by police on Thursday, two years and nine days after gunmen seized the paintings from an Oslo museum.

[Haudlady]

That's great news, AdventureGirl!

Hearing about that robbery made me feel ill... I don't think I will ever understand the criminal mind (and for that I am grateful! ;) ). I appreciate the update!

[Duck on Wheels]

Yeah! That was last nights big news flash! Boy oh boy did the cops ever look smug on the screen. Or rather, one guy looked overbearingly smug and the other guy had a big grin on his face and looked like he could barely keep himself from punching his fist in the air. We still haven't heard any official details, but the newspapers this morning are speculating that the cops have been squeezing a suspect who is also coming up for his appeal trial on a BIIIIG bank robbery where a cop got shot and killed. According to this morning's papers, the cops offered a plea bargain package where he'd get a softer jail term if he turned in the paintings ... and maybe also the co-robber who shot the cop?

[eclectic]

testing to see if the avatar showed up