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MacRumors avatar trend

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Zwhaler

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I've been noticing more and more users taking their avatars and adjusting the space around them to match the forum color background. I just wanted to say that I approve of this trend :D and I think more people should do it! I did it using the Paint app from the App store... just use color grab to get the exact color and then click away til it's perfect :)
 
AngerDanger

AngerDanger

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Of course, that color won't be consistent across every platform on which people view the site, so it's best to just use a transparent background as mentioned above. This may be difficult in free image manipulation programs.

Some really innovative people even have these animated GIF things as avatars! :eek:;)
 
Weaselboy

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Jan 23, 2005
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Zwhaler said:
I've been noticing more and more users taking their avatars and adjusting the space around them to match the forum color background. I just wanted to say that I approve of this trend :D and I think more people should do it! I did it using the Paint app from the App store... just use color grab to get the exact color and then click away til it's perfect :)
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Thanks for the tip. Here are color values for the grey background if it helps anybody.

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Weaselboy

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cambookpro said:
How would one go about doing that? Every time I uploaded a transparent avatar it turned the transparent bits white. Just resorted to colour-matching it in the end.
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Same here. Mine was transparent background and turned white when I uploaded. Ended up just matching the background.
 
Plutonius

Plutonius

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Feb 22, 2003
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SandboxGeneral said:
I wonder if it's not so much a trend but that some people are just using images with transparent backgrounds.
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I can't figure out how to make an acceptable avatar with a transparent background. Is the only format that MR accepts for images having transparencies, .gif images ?

The avatar looks good as a 75 x 75 pixel .jpg image but doesn't look nearly as good as a 75 x 75 .gif image (Has MR considered going to a 150 x 150 pixel avatar ?) .
 
SandboxGeneral

SandboxGeneral

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Plutonius said:
I can't figure out how to make an acceptable avatar with a transparent background. Is the only format that MR accepts for images having transparencies, .gif images ?

The avatar looks good as a 75 x 75 pixel .jpg image but doesn't look nearly as good as a 75 x 75 .gif image (Has MR considered going to a 150 x 150 pixel avatar ?) .
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I think, and I'm not completely sure, but .gif, .jpg and .png are all allowable file types to be used.

As far as upping the dimensions of avatar's that's an Arn and admin thing to decide.
 
Plutonius

Plutonius

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Feb 22, 2003
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SandboxGeneral said:
I think, and I'm not completely sure, but .gif, .jpg and .png are all allowable file types to be used.

As far as upping the dimensions of avatar's that's an Arn and admin thing to decide.
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Thank you for the help !!!

The .png format was one of the few I didn't try for transparencies in my avatar and it worked :D.
 
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