Comments on: HOW TO ADD YOUR PICTURE TO YOUR ONLINE COMMENTS http://www.agreenertea.com/how-to-add-your-picture-to-your-online-comments/ ...on aging with strength and beauty Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:33:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Rick Beckman http://www.agreenertea.com/how-to-add-your-picture-to-your-online-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Rick Beckman Sun, 18 May 2008 20:05:33 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=414#comment-406 Actually, Christine, you can test this out real easy; you say your uploaded avatar was only 80 px? At 80, it'll look like this: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dadc4a075213f0ae6942768eb234f49e?s=80 In this theme, we're stretching them out to 96: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dadc4a075213f0ae6942768eb234f49e?s=96 Maybe somewhere has it set to 500: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dadc4a075213f0ae6942768eb234f49e?s=500 80-100 pixels, the distortion/pixelation of the image isn't terribly noticeable, but once at 500, well, it's obvious you uploaded a small avatar. Of course, mine is not much better at that size: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/358289179c159bfc4661ab4e6b16f1fc?s=500 Actually, Christine, you can test this out real easy; you say your uploaded avatar was only 80 px?

At 80, it’ll look like this:
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dadc4a075213f0ae6942768eb234f49e?s=80

In this theme, we’re stretching them out to 96:
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dadc4a075213f0ae6942768eb234f49e?s=96

Maybe somewhere has it set to 500:
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dadc4a075213f0ae6942768eb234f49e?s=500

80-100 pixels, the distortion/pixelation of the image isn’t terribly noticeable, but once at 500, well, it’s obvious you uploaded a small avatar. Of course, mine is not much better at that size:
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/358289179c159bfc4661ab4e6b16f1fc?s=500

]]> By: Christine Scaman http://www.agreenertea.com/how-to-add-your-picture-to-your-online-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-405 Christine Scaman Sun, 18 May 2008 11:23:53 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=414#comment-405 That must be it because your picture is slightly larger than mine, right? That must be it because your picture is slightly larger than mine, right?

]]> By: Christine Scaman http://www.agreenertea.com/how-to-add-your-picture-to-your-online-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Christine Scaman Sun, 18 May 2008 11:22:20 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=414#comment-404 Thanks for the reply, Rick. So you're saying that folks can crop their picture to any size over 80x80 which is about the smallest you'd want to look at , or even leave it very large, and it will be adjusted to whatever dimension the site they're commenting on calls for? If my blog theme is set for 96, as you know, but the picture I uploaded is 80, shouldn't it appear stretched out a little? Or does the blog make them all 96 if they're larger than that, but leave anything smaller as is? Thanks for the reply, Rick.
So you’re saying that folks can crop their picture to any size over 80×80 which is about the smallest you’d want to look at , or even leave it very large, and it will be adjusted to whatever dimension the site they’re commenting on calls for?
If my blog theme is set for 96, as you know, but the picture I uploaded is 80, shouldn’t it appear stretched out a little? Or does the blog make them all 96 if they’re larger than that, but leave anything smaller as is?

]]> By: Rick Beckman http://www.agreenertea.com/how-to-add-your-picture-to-your-online-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Rick Beckman Sun, 18 May 2008 00:46:49 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=414#comment-402 Christine: No, it doesn't matter what size a picture is when you upload it, though keep this in mind. If I uploaded a 20x20 image of me as my gravatar, it will appear ugly and stretched on sites with avatars set to 80x80. However, if my uploaded image is 500x500 and I don't crop just a small portion of it out, then my avatar will look good on sites with avatars set at just about any size. Thanks for the link back to Kingdom Geek & the kind words. :) Christine: No, it doesn’t matter what size a picture is when you upload it, though keep this in mind.

If I uploaded a 20×20 image of me as my gravatar, it will appear ugly and stretched on sites with avatars set to 80×80.

However, if my uploaded image is 500×500 and I don’t crop just a small portion of it out, then my avatar will look good on sites with avatars set at just about any size.

Thanks for the link back to Kingdom Geek & the kind words. :)

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