Resizing pics for avatar
Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:44 am
Quick and easy way to resize those proud pictures for your avatar.
1. Go to http://www.picresize.com/
2. Hit choose file, navigate to the picture you want, select and hit continue
3. On step 2 Resize your picture hit the dropdown menu and select Custom Size
4. On both the dropdown menus for Width and Height change them from Percent to Pixels
5a. For portrait pictures choose width = 100 Height = 120
5b. For landscape pictures choose Height = 120 Width = 100
6. On the bottom hit Im done, resize my picture
7. On the next page you can preview the image. If you are unhappy you can start the process again by clicking on the link and play around with the levels.
Avatars must be at least 20 pixels wide and 20 pixels high, but no larger than 120 pixels wide and 120 pixels high.
8. When you are happy with your results you can hit Save to disk and it will store it in the same folder as the original picture.
Then just go to SAI - User Control Panel - Profile - Edit Avatar - Hit Choose File - Navigate to file - Hit Submit
If you managed to stay within the pixel limits your avatar will upload. If not its back to square one
I know 90% of people on here have avatars but this is for the technophobes!
Alternatively this will work with pictures for reports also. Just play around with the levels. Pics for reports must be under 1 Megabyte.
1. Go to http://www.picresize.com/
2. Hit choose file, navigate to the picture you want, select and hit continue
3. On step 2 Resize your picture hit the dropdown menu and select Custom Size
4. On both the dropdown menus for Width and Height change them from Percent to Pixels
5a. For portrait pictures choose width = 100 Height = 120
5b. For landscape pictures choose Height = 120 Width = 100
6. On the bottom hit Im done, resize my picture
7. On the next page you can preview the image. If you are unhappy you can start the process again by clicking on the link and play around with the levels.
Avatars must be at least 20 pixels wide and 20 pixels high, but no larger than 120 pixels wide and 120 pixels high.
8. When you are happy with your results you can hit Save to disk and it will store it in the same folder as the original picture.
Then just go to SAI - User Control Panel - Profile - Edit Avatar - Hit Choose File - Navigate to file - Hit Submit
If you managed to stay within the pixel limits your avatar will upload. If not its back to square one
I know 90% of people on here have avatars but this is for the technophobes!
Alternatively this will work with pictures for reports also. Just play around with the levels. Pics for reports must be under 1 Megabyte.
Re: Resizing pics for avatar
Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:23 pm
Nice one j I think this will be very helpfull for some people including my self 
I keep forgetting how to do it
I keep forgetting how to do it
Re: Resizing pics for avatar
Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:03 pm
Ive just spent the last 40 mins or so trying to resize a photo to a usable size, first off the memory size was too big, finally got it to 25k but the pixel size was too big.... will attempt it again in work tomorrow and if that site still wont work with me i'll just use Adobe photoshop or illustrator to resize...
Re: Resizing pics for avatar
Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:20 am
originalsin wrote:Ive just spent the last 40 mins or so trying to resize a photo to a usable size, first off the memory size was too big, finally got it to 25k but the pixel size was too big.... will attempt it again in work tomorrow and if that site still wont work with me i'll just use Adobe photoshop or illustrator to resize...
If you change the height and width dropdowns from percent to pixels you shouldn't have any issues. If you leave it at percent its only squashing the file size I think and not the image size.
Re: Resizing pics for avatar
Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:40 pm
I see where i was going wrong now..... maybe i should read the instructions first before charging in and trying my own way.....
maybe i should read the instructions first before charging in and trying my own way.....