profile

[Dain]

can you add to the profile the guild? i.e. when other will check my profile to see i'm a member of the Assembly of Camelot.
and avatars as well

[spamfu]

Working on this currently.

So far, The part where you can enter it in your profile is working.
Now working on where others will be able to see it.

/Spamfu

[Dain]

ah ok.
I think it will be a good idea to also have a collection of avatars and/or a place where people can send/upload their own avatar if they don't want the ones already available.

[spamfu]

Will be working on the avatars after this addition is made

/Spamfu

[Dain]

seems everything is working just fine... have to find an avatar and a place to keep him.
that's a wicked avatar Snaf  

[Qwer]

Avatars are nice it's just that I've converted mine into jpg because it was too big and resized from 112 x 120 and now it sucks, it was very nice before, lost all the charm. Grr.
Anyway, thanks for the feature..

[Snafu]

I think it looks good, myself.

/Snafu

[Qwer]

Yeah, basically I like it too. Here you can compare 'em:

http://pwn.uttgm.ro/bencze/avatars/

[Snafu]

How are you converting it? I used mogrify from ImageMagick suite in Linux and the results, I think, look better than what yours looks like, I can send ya a few copies of what results I got if you'd like.

I converted directly to jpeg and got 112x120 (3386 bytes)
I converted to jpeg 93x100 (2637 bytes)
I converted to jpeg 74x79 (1829 bytes)

All three of those look more vibrant than the conversion you got from the original. I think the linux tools are vastly superior to any of the windows tools for conversion AND they work from command linux Linux. Imagemagick is the magic behind the pics pages that I have as well. It is the suite that allows you to resize images on the fly.

Anyone who wants to see what a pic they have would look like in the size of an avatar can send a pic to me and I will convert and show ya.

For avatars, jpeg/jpg is the best format to convert to. .gif, .png and .BMP take up too much space because, usually, they aren't compressed in any way.

/Snafu

[Snafu]

I see ya fixed it...does that look better than your version now?

Let that be a lesson not to use Microsoft products to 'fix' your images *giggle*

/Snafu

[Qwer]

*smirk*

[Russ]

Ok, I rose to the challenge and tried it out on Windows using Paint Shop Pro 8. I have to say, at 75x80 it looks better than the one that qwer is using as of the time of this posting... eyes very sharp etc. although I did save it with a high image quality setting for the jpg. Reducing the image size does reduce quality, but that is a side-effect of the JPG compression, not the operating system you are using!

Don't get me wrong, I actually really like Linux, but I have yet to find a competitor for Paint Shop Pro on it, and I've tried GIMP, ImageMagick etc.

[Morild]

I always use Adobe Photoshop for graphics. It is a pritty expesive program, but there is nothing better
(perhaps a bit to expensive if all you want to do with it is make smaller pictures, tubnails etc)

[Kherec]

I find Photoshop to be exceedingly, unnecessary complex, compared to Paint Shop Pro, while both are equally powerful (and when I say complex I don't mean too hard to learn, just that it could easily remain as powerful as it is, and be much more userfriendly like Paint Shop Pro).

[Snafu]

I find that for live editing, yes those are good programs...but for just shrinking/converting from one format another where no actual editing is needed, then Imagemagick rulez

/Spamfu