Avatars

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:53 pm

Well, since there's a thread for signatures and wallpapers, why not for avatars, too

? I made some, but I suck at it, so I can't wait to see what others will make

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Bino

Peanut

Maxwell

King

Joey

Grape

Fox

Tarot

Fido

Sasha

Misc

Miles/Lucretia/Cubs

Marvin/Tiger/Zachary

Mice

Sabrina

Come on people, contribute! It's fun creating avatars

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Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:57 pm

Nice finds.

Hipstar · Post by **Hipstar** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 7:02 pm

thanks man

The Game · Post by **The Game** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 7:22 pm

Nice!!
Now I have to decide wich one to use...
I can use them right??

Frooxius · Post by **Frooxius** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:08 pm

As I already said, nice work. It forced me to also change my avatar to something better

Anyway, wouldn't it be better to separate pictures only by space and not by newlines? It would save an awful lot of space. Like this:

Buckdida · Post by **Buckdida** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:27 am

Ooh ooh ooh!

I made a ton of these too!

Post by **Dissension** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:31 am

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*

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:43 am

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 · Post by **ArgentFlame** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:33 am

So I made some Avatars.

There are many more on the way.

Kyderra · Post by **Kyderra** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:26 am

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:09 pm

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

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Keep them coming.

Kyderra · Post by **Kyderra** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:30 pm

Alex wrote: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.

I just noticed it.
there are sooo many already.
the OP is really sorted nicely

The Game · Post by **The Game** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:33 pm

what strips are the following pics from?

Kyderra · Post by **Kyderra** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:53 pm

the one with the black bar are 2

https://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/07/ ... the-mouth/
https://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/07/ ... t-nothing/

Buckdida · Post by **Buckdida** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:54 pm

The Game wrote:what strips are the following pics from?

For # 1, 4, 5, and six, check "The Visitor" arc. #7 is from New Years, 2008, and #2 is a custom made edit.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:01 pm

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.

The Game · Post by **The Game** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:27 am

Kyderra wrote:the one with the black bar are 2

oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh That makes sense. Thanks!

The Game · Post by **The Game** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:31 am

Buckdida wrote:
The Game wrote:what strips are the following pics from?

For # 1, 4, 5, and six, check "The Visitor" arc. #7 is from New Years, 2008, and #2 is a custom made edit.

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.

Two_Twig · Post by **Two_Twig** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:49 am

Ebly wrote:I've lost all my other ones since I put them on tinypic so they're not saved.
You'll live without them.

If you lost the one I made you, I could send it to you again. If you want me to that is.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:24 am

Two_Twig wrote:
Ebly wrote:I've lost all my other ones since I put them on tinypic so they're not saved.
You'll live without them.
If you lost the one I made you, I could send it to you again. If you want me to that this.

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!

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:10 am

Buckdida wrote:
The Game wrote:what strips are the following pics from?

For # 1, 4, 5, and six, check "The Visitor" arc. #7 is from New Years, 2008, and #2 is a custom made edit.

And #3 is the vet arc.

EDIT: Edited OP, added a new Sabrina avatar made by me. Hope you guys like it

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Anthroguy101 · Post by **Anthroguy101** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:48 am

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?

Anthroguy101 · Post by **Anthroguy101** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:55 am

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!

Frooxius · Post by **Frooxius** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:08 am

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.

Two_Twig · Post by **Two_Twig** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:25 am

Ebly wrote:
Two_Twig wrote:
Ebly wrote:I've lost all my other ones since I put them on tinypic so they're not saved.
You'll live without them.
If you lost the one I made you, I could send it to you again. If you want me to that this.
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!

Here you go

p.s. Sorry I forgot to re-size it again. It comes out weird whenever I try to for some reason.

Kyderra · Post by **Kyderra** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:53 am

BlueArmy wrote: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!

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

Frooxius · Post by **Frooxius** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:19 am

Kyderra wrote:in paint will size it down enough, even in jpg

Why is everyone ignoring me? (especially the 3rd post above this one (without this one))

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:17 pm

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.

Sinder · Post by **Sinder** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:20 pm

Tails++ wrote:Why is everyone ignoring me?

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,

Frooxius · Post by **Frooxius** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:41 pm

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:

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:45 pm

EDIT: Updated the OP again with 5 new avatars: One grape and 4 Marvin/Tiger/Zachary ones.

Kyderra · Post by **Kyderra** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:08 pm

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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

Buckdida · Post by **Buckdida** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:37 pm

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?

Frooxius · Post by **Frooxius** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:04 pm

Kyderra wrote:any one cares... really?, I mean, look at this

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):

Keeshah · Post by **Keeshah** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:39 pm

iconz

Anthroguy101 · Post by **Anthroguy101** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:24 pm

Tails++ wrote:
Kyderra wrote:any one cares... really?, I mean, look at this
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):

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.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:16 am

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

RockstarRaccoon · Post by **RockstarRaccoon** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:49 am

Avatar successfully stolen. >:|

Foxstar · Post by **Foxstar** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:41 am

BlueArmy wrote: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.

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.

Anthroguy101 · Post by **Anthroguy101** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:36 am

Foxstar wrote:
BlueArmy wrote: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.
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.

Sorry.