note about avatar proportions

[miyakoji]

The forum software apparently wants all images to be square.  That no dimension exceeds 100px (or whatever the limit is) is not the only requirement.  I had edited my avatar down to 100px wide by 78px tall.  After uploading, it gave me that editor so I could crop the image.  I didn't want to crop it any further.  After a few tries I pasted the image on a 100x100 background.  Success.

 

If this is not written anywhere (that is, if I am not missing it) it may be helpful to add some information about this somewhere in the avatar dialogs.

[cteno4]

Sorry about that, yes best to just do the avatar on a 100x100 canvas for it to deal with it the best.

 

maybe this will be better in the next forum software upgrade. We have a big one to do but the https needs done for that upgrade.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[HannaYisa]

Hey, appreciate you sharing your experience with resizing your avatar! I know that it can be really frustrating when platforms don't clearly outline their requirements.

[cteno4]

The file limit is set to like 0.49MB and you need to crop your image square or put your image onto a square background color (not sure if it reads transparent pixels or not) if you cant crop your image square. I believe it uses like 120x120 pix max in your profile page so that’s probably a good size to use. Unfortunately not much on this in the invision support materials and I can’t find where the 0.49MB size limit is set in the admin software so it may be a fixed thing now as there were some odd things a few years ago on these file sizes and looked ro be a setting in previous versions of the forum software, but not there now. Every 6 months or so there is a major update of the forum software and the admin settings and interface takes some twists and turns.

 

so just crop to a square and downsize to like 120x120 and you should be good.

 

yell if you have problems.

 

jeff