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David E. Gervais March 16th, 2003 01:49 PM

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Master Belisarius:
Hey David, can I use this avatar? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1040142305.gif
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You mean this one?..
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1040142305.gif

You sure can, it's not reserved and it's available for adoption. (but you already knew that right?) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Cheers!

PsychoTechFreak March 16th, 2003 08:11 PM

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 
Is it possible to upload an avatar somewhere without a homepage?

Fyron March 16th, 2003 10:59 PM

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047816141.gif
Just testing how this one looks compared to the current Version.

[Edit]It lost too many colors in the conVersion to GIF. What I actually wanted was to find somewhere I could upload a png (as that is the original file format) and use that as the avatar, instead of gif or jpg. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif [/edit]

Quote:

Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:
Is it possible to upload an avatar somewhere without a homepage?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes. Upload it to Shrapnel in the uploads section. You do not need to officially make a post in their though. Just hit "new reply", use the file upload form, and then copy the url. Edit your profile to use that url.

[ March 16, 2003, 21:01: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

DavidG March 16th, 2003 11:40 PM

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047816141.gif
Just testing how this one looks compared to the current Version.


<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Just so I don't go blind starting at it for hours can you tell me what the heck it is??

David E. Gervais March 17th, 2003 02:11 AM

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 
..this one for Fyron (With no polish and a darker frame!)..
1047816141.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047816141.gif

..and this for tesco (Grapes was ready for his close-up! In fact he said.. "I was ready for my close-up, but did you have to shove your lens up my nose?" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
1047816156.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047816156.gif

..I found this wolf that KirbyEF might like. (If he drops by and see's it!) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
1047818434.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047818434.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ March 16, 2003, 12:43: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

tesco samoa March 17th, 2003 05:44 AM

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 
Thank you David. Grapes would like it.

Fyron March 17th, 2003 07:13 AM

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 
DavidG:
Maybe this will help you:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047703704.jpg

Mephisto March 17th, 2003 11:26 AM

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 
Quote:

Originally posted by DavidG:
Just so I don't go blind starting at it for hours can you tell me what the heck it is??
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think it is a "New Orion"/"Antares" from MOO3.

Edit: Fixed messed up quote.

[ March 17, 2003, 19:29: Message edited by: Mephisto ]

David E. Gervais March 17th, 2003 12:55 PM

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 
Fyron, I just grabbed the bigger .jpg you posted, I'll see what I can do with that. If you want me to work with the original .png just send me an e-mail and attach it!!

Cheers!

Edit: Ok, here's the result of a wee bit of fooling around with the larger .jpg...

First a comparison with a gif and a jpg (set at minimum compression to retain as much detail as possible!)
1047900409.gif
1047900435.jpg

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047900409.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047900435.jpg
.gif .jpg

..and here is a .zip with a .bmp, .png, .gif, and .jpg! Fyi, I have a great program for reducing pics and I could not notice any diff in the .gif compared to the original .bmp (16m colors!) the .png was saved at 16m colors too!!

1047900459.zip

The .jpg is the most 'notably' different. (but that is to be expected due to the type of file compression used in a .jpg!)

Let me know what you think! Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

P.S. are you aware the your current avatar pic is being distorted? the resizing being done (by the Shrapnel host) does not preserve the aspect ratio. If you look close you'll notice that your current avatar has a 'fatter' head. If you don't mind the distortion, I could do a resize without preserving the aspect ratio too! (I mention this because when comparing my avatar's to yours Mine looks a bit smaller, but that is the result of the distorting. Closer inspection will show you that the 'height' of the heads is the same. But I digress, sorry!

P.P.S. scaling without 'preservation' looks like this! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

1047901744.gif
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047901744.gif

...wait a min, it looks like your avatar pic has been cropped first! hmmmm grrrrr! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

...one more little edit.. here is one cropped resized, slightly brightend (2%), a 5% color boost (saturation), and a 10% sharpen to bring out just a bit more detail that was lost in the reduction process...

1047902785.gif
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047902785.gif

Cheers!

[ March 17, 2003, 12:10: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

Hugh Manatee March 17th, 2003 09:04 PM

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 
HEY, David E. Gervais, Thanks for the GIF thing, and the original avatar, and the insparation http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif . Ho do you like this:

1047927040.gif
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1047927040.gif


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