CAN ANYBODY TELL ME WHY THE AVATAR i USE IN OTHER FORUMS THAT IS ACCEPTED AS AN AVATAR AND FITS QUITE NICELY, WON’T DO SO ON THE AVAST FORUM?
I GET THIS MESSAGE WHEN I TRY TO UP LOAD IT “* The avatar you have selected is too large, or not an avatar”.
Thanks, Diligent
Please turn off your caps.
Welcome to the forum.
Most avatars are approx. 100X100 in size and are usually gif’s or jpg’s or png’s.
Why not attach the proposed avatar to your post and we could possibly see why.
Other forums may have a resize function that scales down the image to their acceptable avatar size, this forum doesn’t do that so it could be either screen size or physical file size or file type, posting it as an attachment to your post would give an indication.
That’s the same error I got when I tried to upload my avatar from my computer to the “I will upload my own picture:” option.
So, I used the avatar I have posted on Photobucket, copied the URL, and pasted it in the “I have my own pic:” option. It worked fine. Try that…
I had the same problem with mine, but the steps orangecrate used worked for me. (Thanks again for the Avatar Dan)
Sorry, be glad to turn of the caps.
Bob3160: The properties says its a jpeg (in caps) image. It is smaller than your photo picture.
DavidR: Did not know hoe to attach, so I tried to paste it here; We’ll see what happens.
OarngeCrate and marc57: Sounds like we have the same problem, but when I copy the designation (not a url I do not think), it cannot be pasted to that window. This is the bare designation number 214813_26695768.
When you click Reply to post, you will see Additional Options, click that.
Now click the Browse button, navigate to the file on your HDD and select it.
Click the Open button, that will transfer the path into the window to the left of the browse button.
Final step after you have entered your text click post and it is done.
Go to http://photobucket.com, and sign up for an account. It’s free. Follow the instructions there. In the album you will create, you can upload pictures from your computer. Once uploaded, below the picture will be a “URL link” for it. Copy and paste that into avast in the area I suggested above.
If you want to resize your avatar, use this site http://resizepic.com/ to do so. Once resized, you can save it back to your computer. Then upload it to photobucket, etc.
DavidR: Thanks. The pic should show up now. Diligent.
You may use the following link in your profile.
Hope that helps.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/ShellFTP/diligentinquirer.jpg
DavidR; OrangeCrate; marc57:
You each (all) had the problem solving process down very well. I appreciate it.
DavidR was thinking in the first necessary problem solving step. VERY good.
OrangeCrate and marc57 happened to have the answer from past experience.
BTW, the Photobucket site is Great! I did not happen to see it, or the like. I have an old win98–when cleaned precisely (malware-virus/registry/defrag) works OK on both web site, and program, downloads. Being able to upload pic’s offsite is a great space saver that lessons my cache space load up probs.
Thank you folks much. I am a legal research consultant (not a lawyer). If I can help you folks withing legal parameters on basic info in return, please let me know (must be by private email though).
Thanks, Diligent
Glad that we could help and that the problem is resolved.
Welcome to the forums.
As David and OrangeCrate have already said, Glad to be of help.