model a cliff
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well here goes another try
trying to do the avatar thing
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Cliff if you're taking a picture from your PC use option two. Hit the browse button , find the picture and upload it. Make sure that the picture is not too large. You can do that by right clicking the mouse on the picture and hit properties. I can't help you if your taking it from a web site. Never did that. Maybe someone else can explain it better than I.
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Cliff if you're taking a picture from your PC use option two. Hit the browse button , find the picture and upload it. Make sure that the picture is not too large. You can do that by right clicking the mouse on the picture and hit properties. I can't help you if your taking it from a web site. Never did that. Maybe someone else can explain it better than I.
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dlshady
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I think this is the one thing that throws the most folks off. If its bigger than this it will hae to be put into Photoshop (or a similar program) and resized. If you don't have the ability to do that yourself, you're welcome to email me the photo and I'll shrink it for you.
Deron
model a cliff
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yes Deron and now i don't know how to get the size while i have it on the screen. boy i am really feeling dumb on this one.
Cliff
Cliff
dlshady
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Cliff,
What kind of operating system are you using? If you have Windows XP you can hover your mouse on top of a photo file and it will pop up a window telling the dimensions, size and filetype (assuming you have the folder view style set to show thumbnails). If that doesn't work you can single-click the photo file (not double click to open it) and there is a box down the left side of the screen called "details" that will show the size too. Have I confused you yet...
Newer versions of Windows are probably about the same, but if you're using a Mac then I have no clue what to tell you.
If you still have troubles, just click on my name and send me a PM with the photo attached and I'll send it back to you tonight.
Deron
What kind of operating system are you using? If you have Windows XP you can hover your mouse on top of a photo file and it will pop up a window telling the dimensions, size and filetype (assuming you have the folder view style set to show thumbnails). If that doesn't work you can single-click the photo file (not double click to open it) and there is a box down the left side of the screen called "details" that will show the size too. Have I confused you yet...
Newer versions of Windows are probably about the same, but if you're using a Mac then I have no clue what to tell you.
If you still have troubles, just click on my name and send me a PM with the photo attached and I'll send it back to you tonight.
Deron
model a cliff
Junior Member
Deron i do not think i am confused and i do have xp and my pic's are in thumbnail, i will give it a try later and contact you or if it works it will show up on my next post i hope, thanks Cliff
Patrick L.
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I've been holding off on posting anything because of my computer illiteracy.. I too had a heck of a time figuring this out.. I couldn't do it from 'my pictures' or 'photostash'.. Without the help from Tom W , Skip and Hoarse Whisperer I could not have done it, but, it had to be done from 'photobucket' then 'user cp' on this board.. I finally got it to work, but, I'm not sure I could do it again..
Ciff, I've been pondering why I could reduce the image size in my PC using XP By right clicking on the mouse when I put the curser over the picture and you can not.
Well it just hit me. I down loaded from Microsoft a small program called
"Image Resizer Powertoy for windows XP".
Maybe you can go to Microsoft and get the same program.
Just a suggestion for you and anyone else that can use it.
Good Luck
Well it just hit me. I down loaded from Microsoft a small program called
"Image Resizer Powertoy for windows XP".
Maybe you can go to Microsoft and get the same program.
Just a suggestion for you and anyone else that can use it.
Good Luck