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Super Speler · Posted: 07 Dec 2005 08:41:59 pm Post subject:

Um... how do I make a large picture small enough for an avatar. I wanna use one of my dads dental x-rays.

AlienCC · Posted: 07 Dec 2005 08:44:25 pm Post subject:

You should be able to use your photo editing software (The Gimp, Photoshop, etc.) to resize it to 100x100 pixels, save it under a different name to not replace the original then you should be good to go.

--AlienCC

DarkerLine · Posted: 07 Dec 2005 08:49:17 pm Post subject:

Paint works.

kermmartian · Posted: 07 Dec 2005 09:59:17 pm Post subject:

start-->run--> mspaint [enter]
open image
image-->attributes
scale it
save

:)

Liazon · Posted: 07 Dec 2005 10:28:26 pm Post subject:

Just remember that scaling the pic down can distort the image, which is never fun.

DarkerLine · Posted: 07 Dec 2005 10:29:36 pm Post subject:

Not if you use the same percentages and you don't shrink a highly detailed picture to 50x50.

Liazon · Posted: 07 Dec 2005 10:34:29 pm Post subject:

Percentages, duh! but esp. in Paint, for some reason everything gets distorted. Woot Woot! for HDTV!

Arcane Wizard · Posted: 08 Dec 2005 06:57:18 am Post subject:

MS Paint has one of the wirst scaling algorithms or whatever on the planet.

IAmACalculator · Posted: 08 Dec 2005 07:24:39 am Post subject:

Personally, I like ByLight 20/20 (it's freeware), but I just can't really find a download anywhere. I have it, I just don't know where I'd gotten it.

Anyone else heard of it?

Arcane Wizard · Posted: 08 Dec 2005 07:49:24 am Post subject:

http://yippee.i4free.co.nz/html/win/graphics/title9182.htm

IAmACalculator · Posted: 08 Dec 2005 08:35:19 am Post subject:

Oops, yes, I forgot about that little detail Confused

. What was I thinking? 20/20's homepage used to be www.hotfreeware.com. Heh. Other than the ads, it works pretty well for me.

Super Speler · Posted: 08 Dec 2005 07:04:38 pm Post subject:

Yeah well um... for some reason mspaint just dissapeared from my computer, not the first time it's happened.

Virus's didn't cause this it started happening before I got internet (my familys behind times. I don't have cable, AC, or until last week a doorknob (don't ask))

Maybe it's that my parents against all my advice got a dell because my neibor who has one sais it runs well.

Anyway photoshop is to expensive for us, what we have is dell image expert can i do it there?

Arcane Wizard · Posted: 08 Dec 2005 07:30:11 pm Post subject:

GIMP is free. It rocks. Use it.

/myadvice

Super Speler · Posted: 08 Dec 2005 09:38:16 pm Post subject:

Never mind guys but thanks!

I just took an image I made for my website.

Weregoose · Posted: 08 Dec 2005 10:27:27 pm Post subject:

* Weregoose hides the baseball bat!

leofox · Posted: 09 Dec 2005 08:46:25 am Post subject:

Super Speler · Posted: 09 Dec 2005 01:35:43 pm Post subject:

No... I used Run mspaint...

It disapeared from my computer.

Sorry Weregoose. Please dont hurt me.

Weregoose · Posted: 09 Dec 2005 03:02:41 pm Post subject:

Hehe, no. :biggrin: The point was that I hit the ball exiting out the window in your avatar. :)

Try running "pbrush" and see if that works.

Super Speler · Posted: 09 Dec 2005 03:12:37 pm Post subject:

Whew... that's a releif

Super Speler · Posted: 09 Dec 2005 03:17:38 pm Post subject:

Nope... Oh well, I'll just blame dell.

I'm gonna starting building my own all-powerful supercomputer homebrew the second schools over and I can get a job.

Then I don't have to worry about crappy dell failures.

I think the owner of dell should burn in New Jersey.