AV Help

[Shimp]

I have searched online and tried to "save as" certian AV's, but they will not show up as an image on my computer in my documnets. I have plenty of pics I have downloaded before, is the AV need a special file to open or save it? This is frustrating, I promise I'm not that big of an idiot.

 

[Shimp]

ok now I see that when I save the pic or target as, it is shown as an art file when the properties say its a jpeg?? What the hell, somebody explain how to do this.

 

[Vixandra]

Any Avatar picture posted here on lit has to met certain specifications:
The maximum size of your custom image is 150 by 150 pixels or 15.0 KB (whichever is smaller).

It also tends to like jpeg's best, in my experiance.
If you're saving a pic to your computer to use as your AV, make sure it saves as a jpg or jpeg file.
Easy on either major OS platorm, Windows or Apple. "Save image as" and make sure its in jpg mode.
Then use a program to resize it, I like Dogwaffle, to the proper size/dimensions and you're good to go.

Or worse comes to worse, find someone to resize it for you. There's an entire thread devoted to that with lots of spiffy people who'll resize or walk you through it.

 

[DemonOuterverse]

ok now I see that when I save the pic or target as, it is shown as an art file when the properties say its a jpeg?? What the hell, somebody explain how to do this.

ART file as in the crappy, heavily compressed image format AOL uses?

If that's the case in your Internet Options there should be a checkbox to turn off ART compression. I haven been an AOL'er since v4 so I have no clue where it would be in v9.


(Side note: this makes my 69th post...kinky! )

 

[Weird Harold]

ok now I see that when I save the pic or target as, it is shown as an art file when the properties say its a jpeg?? What the hell, somebody explain how to do this.

Empty your temporary internet files. That should return the ability to save an image in it's originl format. I have no idea why that works, but it seems to be the nswer for most people when their browser decides it can only save pictures in ART or BMP format.

Generally, the option to save as BMP is always there for any image, and that format is easily handled by almost any image editor. To convert the ART files you already hve saved, open them with IE and select save as BMP to convert them to somthing you can use/convert to a useable avatar.