Funky Cool Irc Statistics With Avatars :) If this is motivation enough to join IRC

HI all,

For those who join us regularly on IRC and for those who don't as well - now, we have hourly updated channel statistics being published at this address: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ .. For those who have no idea what channel stats mean, just go ahead and take a look at that URL.

Also as of today - those who wish to include their avatars along with their nicks on the channel stats page, please mail me your avatars at: microscopic.earthling@gmail.com. Due to space constraints on the page, I cannot accept avatars larger than 80x56 (80=height, 56=width). So kindly redimension your avatars to follow this standard before mailing them to me. Those that do not fit these dimensions will be rejected straight out - and they should all be in .jpg format (I dont mind 100% uncompressed JPEGs - at these dimensions that hardly matters). How would that look on the page ? Take a look at the recent stats - I've got my avatar up already.

Also, as of today I've enabled a Gender Tracking feature on the stats page - due to which, all male nicks will be colored a deeper shade of blue and female's will get a pinkish tinge. That'll help distinguish between the chatters' genders.

Have fun and hope these colorful stats will provide motivation to many others to come join us on irc and have a hell of a time.

Can anyone do my avatar, its the one I have here, shrinking it wont be possible by me, id kill it.

I can try trekkie, but I'm a graphics genius except for pbp (pixel by pixel), and that takes too long. Also, are black usernames the people who you don't know if they are male or female?

Oh, and is that a new avatar m^e, I like it a lot.

Sorry, meant to say I'm NOT a graphics genius, because I most definitely am not (unless we are talking about pbp).

m^e, do they have to be exactly 80x56, or is smaller okay?
And trekkie, here are the mods of your avatar:
straight resize: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
resize kept square: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
resize kept square semi-color matched border: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Thanks skywalker that new avatar's a Psychedelic Buddha image .. Even I really like it - the color combination is extremely rich and yet blended so well together.. the actual image is BIG and really awesome. As for your other question - the images can be smaller - but then, I'll have to pad them on the sides to get to approx. this 80x56 size. Otherwise the member names list won't show up as a uniform grid. Thanks for converting them for trekkie.. putting 'em up now.. What about your ??

In case you don't have the right tools to resize/resample your avatars - try this: IrfanView ( http://www.irfanview.com/ ) - this one is a really lite and fastimageviewer (similar to ACDSee32) with loads of image resizing and conversion features. Extremely easy to do it with this.

THe GIMP is also a great image editing program. It can resize and easily padd the images to fit the space better. And, it's free, definitely a good alternative to photoshop.

Can anyone do my avatar, its the one I have here, shrinking it wont be possible by me, id kill it.

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I like that better than the one I made for him, how did you extend the border so well, and keep the image from being squished? (and the top part doesn't blend well, it looks like its a separate entity).

I like that better than the one I made for him, how did you extend the border so well, and keep the image from being squished?  (and the top part doesn't blend well, it looks like its a separate entity).

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wow thanks. Up to MSE if he wants to update it or not.

better, but you still didn't explain how you accomplished th border padding matching so well with the image. That's what I want to know.

I used Photoshop CS.

1) resized image to 56x56 Image => Image size...

2) opened needed size (80x56) blank image File => New...

3) pasted current image. Now image has empty space at the top and bottom

4) used Clone stamp tool. This is the best tool for extending textures.

Usage: while holding ALT, click on the place where you want to copy from. Release ALT button. Then click on the place you want texture to be copied and look what happens . It's easy and simple

I would have still messed it up, graphics havent ever been a gift of mine.

Ah, the clone stamp tool! Why do I always forget that tool exists. I really ought to start using it more so I remember it's there when I need it. Oh, trekkie, be sure to tell m^e to change your avatar over to this one if you like this better.