computer illiterate... ignorance is pain, enlighten me... please...

[misutii]

this is going to sound like an absolutely stupid question, however, my roomate is already sleeping so i can't ask him, and if i don't figure it out i'm just going to keep thinking about it. How would i go about shrinking an avatar (.jpg) image to fit into the required 120x120 pixels?

[nBT]

so maybe try irc :D
see if there are people who can help you.
now about the computer illiterate state. (m)irc is not so hard. comes with a nice guide to get you going.
hmm anything else would need more program knowledge. theres free image editor programs. and image vieuwers that are able to scale an image.

[Miss Anthropic]

Download Irfanview, or use whichever picture-editor you already have or prefer. Load the image, select the resizing tool and alter it to the maximum allowed ( Here, 'The maximum size of your custom image is 120 by 120 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller)' ).

Save --- unless you wish to experiment with the other tools to enhance the image --- under another name, and use.

If the size is too much, try saving in different formats.


Claverhouse :ph34r:

This might help too, stole it from the avatar thread.... mgbradsh wanted to know how to get a bigger picture for his avatar

[int]

If you don't have any imaging editing software, and are running Windows...

Click here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx


Over on the right side is a link to "Image Resizer." Click it and get it downloaded and installed.

After you download and install it, browse to the file you want to resize. Then right-click it, select "Resize Pictures" the click the "Advanced" button. You can highlight "Custom" and input the 120x120 values. The program will make a copy of the file for you, which you can then rename and upload.

[misutii]

thank-you so much, as usual i managed to put off something so simple for so long