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Alex
Joined: Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:41 pm Posts: 3792 Location: End of Time
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Dylan
Box Fox
Joined: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:31 am Posts: 2275 Location: Austin, Texas
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Nice finds. 
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Hipstar
Joined: Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:49 pm Posts: 339 Location: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
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thanks man
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The Game
Joined: Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:28 pm Posts: 3920
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Nice!! Now I have to decide wich one to use... I can use them right??
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Frooxius
Joined: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:00 pm Posts: 311 Images: 43
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Buckdida
Juicy Wolf-Cat
Joined: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:59 am Posts: 2350 Location: Richardson Valley
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Dissension
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Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:42 pm Posts: 8624 Images: 0
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I've created several avatars, but unfortunately most of them were on my flash drive which was stolen from the university library. Most recently, I have been making Fox and King-themed avatars, like the one I currently use.
Also Rick has several of my older ones, if he should feel like posting an example. *laughs*
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Alex
Joined: Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:41 pm Posts: 3792 Location: End of Time
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Okay, I made more and organized the OP. I still haven't added Buck's banners. Please for everyone who's creating banners to organize them in a post like the OP is organized, it's easier for me to add them. I'm in a hurry to go to school now, so I'll re-update the OP with Buck's avatars when I get back. Keep 'em coming, people  .
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ArgentFlame
Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:16 am Posts: 490
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2724 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:26 am |
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Alex
Joined: Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:41 pm Posts: 3792 Location: End of Time
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Okay, edited OP. Kyderra, it seems we made two almost-same avatars: Embarrassed Grape & Happy Peanut entering door (Although yours is a close-up). Also, Buck it seems like both you and me made similar Max crying avatars  . Keep them coming.
_________________ Richarson Valley Edward S4 P8 E6 C8 I9 A3 L5 Shanks S7 P5 E6 C7 I4 A6 L7
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Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:09 pm |
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2724 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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I just noticed it. there are sooo many already. the OP is really sorted nicely 
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The Game
Joined: Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:28 pm Posts: 3920
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2724 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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_________________ "Why would you ever want to connect the dots?"
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Buckdida
Juicy Wolf-Cat
Joined: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:59 am Posts: 2350 Location: Richardson Valley
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For # 1, 4, 5, and six, check "The Visitor" arc. #7 is from New Years, 2008, and #2 is a custom made edit.
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Ebly
Joined: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:01 am Posts: 4246 Location: Imagination!
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I took it ages ago. Never used it. First I used. Peanut I didn't care that it's small My longest-lived avatar yet. Bow down to the Bino.
I've lost all my other ones since I put them on tinypic so they're not saved. You'll live without them.
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The Game
Joined: Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:28 pm Posts: 3920
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oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh That makes sense. Thanks!
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Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:27 am |
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The Game
Joined: Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:28 pm Posts: 3920
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I do see a resemblence in 4-5-6 Muchos Gracias! EDIT: I wrote these as two because they were to diff people. I couldnt figure out how to quote 2 people in one reply.
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Two_Twig
Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:45 pm Posts: 640 Images: 27 Location: 50 paces *points* thataway
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If you lost the one I made you, I could send it to you again. If you want me to that is.
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Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:49 am |
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Ebly
Joined: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:01 am Posts: 4246 Location: Imagination!
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Yes! Please please please! That one I will not live without! Actually just post it here because it must be glorified with the rest of them!
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Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:24 am |
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Alex
Joined: Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:41 pm Posts: 3792 Location: End of Time
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And #3 is the vet arc. EDIT: Edited OP, added a new Sabrina avatar made by me. Hope you guys like it  .
_________________ Richarson Valley Edward S4 P8 E6 C8 I9 A3 L5 Shanks S7 P5 E6 C7 I4 A6 L7
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Anthroguy101
Joined: Thu Dec 24, 2009 1:43 pm Posts: 871 Location: Baxter, MN
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Guys, I'm having problems. It says I need a file that's between 0 and 24 Kb, and my avatar's size is bigger than that. A little help?
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Anthroguy101
Joined: Thu Dec 24, 2009 1:43 pm Posts: 871 Location: Baxter, MN
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 Problem solved
Never mind. If you guys have any problems, go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>Paint, and save it as a GIF. Also, haha, I totally called it!
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Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:55 am |
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Frooxius
Joined: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:00 pm Posts: 311 Images: 43
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Oh god... They're saving it as JPG again, although I said several times, that it's not appropriate format for this type of graphics. It degrades the quality, although they obviously used higher quality setting, so the artifacts are not so big, but the same cannot be said about file size. Once again: JPG is optimized for saving photos, not computer graphics (non-photo-like), use PNG instead. Look, I saved the exactly same picture in PNG and suddenly, the size is down to ~19.1 KB, from ~34 KB, that's almost 50 % less! And with no quality loss! You can use this picture, since it already fits in the limit.  Also GIF you used is very poor choice. Don't you see that it decreased picture quality a lot? Especially when you used MS Paint, which does not optimize the palette and picture anyhow (dithering), so it looks very very bad.
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Two_Twig
Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:45 pm Posts: 640 Images: 27 Location: 50 paces *points* thataway
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 Here you go  p.s. Sorry I forgot to re-size it again. It comes out weird whenever I try to for some reason.
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Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:25 am |
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2724 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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if it's to big, this is what I do: save or copy the file > open in paint > Ctrl + S > upload you will only see your cursor flicker, but thats enough in paint will size it down enough, even in jpg
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Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:53 am |
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Frooxius
Joined: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:00 pm Posts: 311 Images: 43
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Why is everyone ignoring me? (especially the 3rd post above this one (without this one))
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Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:19 am |
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Alex
Joined: Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:41 pm Posts: 3792 Location: End of Time
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I think it's because your post was "long" (Although it was short). Learn to read long posts, Internet! It's useful.
Also, I think that we have more avatars than members now, but someone would have to count.
_________________ Richarson Valley Edward S4 P8 E6 C8 I9 A3 L5 Shanks S7 P5 E6 C7 I4 A6 L7
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Sinder
Joined: Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:48 pm Posts: 1729 Location: The Internet
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It's generally believed that PNGs, due to being higher-quality images, always end up having larger filesizes than JPGs do. I thought this was the case myself until I was making avatars a few days back and found out that my PNGs were actually getting better compression. In addition, I'm not sure some older graphics programs may support saving as PNGs at all (Inkscape does, but its default format is SVG, and for some reason the PNGs come out really bloated...) In summary, 
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Frooxius
Joined: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:00 pm Posts: 311 Images: 43
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Well, that's basically what I said. When I saved it to PNG instead of JPG, it's size dropped almost to half (because PNG is optimized for such graphics, JPG for photos, so unless you use very low quality, it will be even larger). Also, don't take that "everyone is ignoring me" too seriously. Basically: 
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Alex
Joined: Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:41 pm Posts: 3792 Location: End of Time
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 EDIT: Updated the OP again with 5 new avatars: One grape and 4 Marvin/Tiger/Zachary ones.
_________________ Richarson Valley Edward S4 P8 E6 C8 I9 A3 L5 Shanks S7 P5 E6 C7 I4 A6 L7
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2724 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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 ------------  15.1 KB .JPG------------------- 14.5 KB .PNG any one cares... really?, I mean, look at this AAAANyway, i like this Thread, because there is finally a place wear all the char are getting listed with pictures and names 
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Buckdida
Juicy Wolf-Cat
Joined: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:59 am Posts: 2350 Location: Richardson Valley
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The left one looks grainy and, thus, bad looking. I'd go with png anyday! And Rick has his comics up on the site in PNG format; what does that tell you? 
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Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:37 pm |
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Frooxius
Joined: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:00 pm Posts: 311 Images: 43
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Yes. As you can see, JPG has clearly reduced the quality, while PNG left the picture nice and intact and yet, managed to create smaller size, even when you used lower compression setting. Look, I saved the same picture in PNG with higher compression setting and reduced that 14.5 KB to 9.58 KB with no quality loss.  9.58 KB (optimized) PNG Once again, JPG uses cosine transform, which suitable for photos, where are smooth color changes, so it's very effective for them and does not cause such big artifacts. However, this algorithm is not designed for computer graphics, with large solid-color areas and sharp transitions (lines), where it produces visible artifacts and also does not compress it very well, because it's not compressing the type of data it was designed to. PNG on the other hand, is much more suitable for such graphics. It can compress it to very small sizes and yet, it does not remove any data or cause any artifacts. On the other side, it's not very good at compressing photos, because it was not designed to compress them, so it produces larger files than JPG (however, it is being used even for photos, when you need not to lose any data and have the original picture completely intact, like in graphics studios or medicine). So basically: Why use format which cripples the picture, when there's alternative which stores it at maximum quality and yet, produces (usually, it's not a rule) smaller files than the crippling format? Why intentionally use the worse alternative?  Also look, here's the difference between JPG and PNG, when you XOR the both pictures (you can see which parts the JPG crippled): 
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Keeshah
Game Master
Joined: Wed May 13, 2009 12:12 am Posts: 5005 Location: out marking the bushes an fire hydrants
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Anthroguy101
Joined: Thu Dec 24, 2009 1:43 pm Posts: 871 Location: Baxter, MN
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 Of PNGs, GIFs and JPEGs
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Tails++ Wrote:
Yes. As you can see, JPG has clearly reduced the quality, while PNG left the picture nice and intact and yet, managed to create smaller size, even when you used lower compression setting. Look, I saved the same picture in PNG with higher compression setting and reduced that 14.5 KB to 9.58 KB with no quality loss.  9.58 KB (optimized) PNG Once again, JPG uses cosine transform, which suitable for photos, where are smooth color changes, so it's very effective for them and does not cause such big artifacts. However, this algorithm is not designed for computer graphics, with large solid-color areas and sharp transitions (lines), where it produces visible artifacts and also does not compress it very well, because it's not compressing the type of data it was designed to. PNG on the other hand, is much more suitable for such graphics. It can compress it to very small sizes and yet, it does not remove any data or cause any artifacts. On the other side, it's not very good at compressing photos, because it was not designed to compress them, so it produces larger files than JPG (however, it is being used even for photos, when you need not to lose any data and have the original picture completely intact, like in graphics studios or medicine). So basically: Why use format which cripples the picture, when there's alternative which stores it at maximum quality and yet, produces (usually, it's not a rule) smaller files than the crippling format? Why intentionally use the worse alternative?  Also look, here's the difference between JPG and PNG, when you XOR the both pictures (you can see which parts the JPG crippled): 
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Fine, Tails, I switched to PNG. You win. Also, don't get your panties in a bunch. It's a free country (at least it is here), we'll use whatever format will work best for our needs.
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Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:24 pm |
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Ebly
Joined: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:01 am Posts: 4246 Location: Imagination!
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I don't know how you can get something as small as a 100x100 image to be over 24 kb. Are you kids smuggling drugs in your avatars? well i do know how but i'm being SILLY okay because i'm EBLY okay
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RockstarRaccoon
Worst Mod EVER!
Joined: Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:50 pm Posts: 4597 Location: South Florida
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Avatar successfully stolen. >:|
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Foxstar
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
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He just cares about the avatars looking good. Don't be snappy with him over that. Also the internet is not a free country. Your subject to the whims and rules of whoever runs the website your visiting, the ISP that allows you to connect and the country your connecting from.
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Anthroguy101
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