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The avatar I was sporting was from Kevin Kuney of a 1998 PT. This new avatar I sport is of Pete Townshend from The Who's music video for "The Kids Are Alright". Since a few people are changing their avatars, I thought I would, too.

Why not have an avatar of your own 1997?

Because the scanner's being stupid!

JakeK wrote:Because the scanner's being stupid!

C'mon now Jake, scanners were made to scan sheets of paper, not guitars.

sloop_john_b wrote:

JakeK wrote:Because the scanner's being stupid!

C'mon now Jake, scanners were made to scan sheets of paper, not guitars.

I was wondering about that one, also!

Ok take a photo and put the card into a PC and it virtually does the rest for you! post on the RRF and bobs your uncle and fannys yer auntie.

Steps for changing your avatar:

1.) Polish guitar to perfection

2.)Go to closet, select and dress in hippest stage outfit available.

3.) Select suitable backdrop for photo

4.) Turn on digicam, place on tripod, or place on suitably raided height surface necessary to record image of self playing guitar and set timer

5.) Quickly grab guitar and strike suitably hip pose. Wait for camera to snap photo.

6.)Resize image file to 300KB or less, upload to RRF profile and set as avatar.

*Disclaimer: I was able to bypass steps 1-5 due to some snap-happy friends at gigs, so all I had to do was crop and resize one of the photo files that was sent to me.

paologregorio wrote: *Disclaimer: I was able to bypass steps 1-5 due to some snap-happy friends at gigs, so all I had to do was crop and resize one of the photo files that was sent to me.

Ditto!

Just for the record...step #6 isn't quite right.
Resize to 100 X 100 pixels and it has to be less than 8k.
In Photoshop....using the save for web feature works the best.

I still think the avatars on this site are too small. 150 x 150px please, it ain't 2003 anymore.

1965 wrote:I still think the avatars on this site are too small. 150 x 150px please, it ain't 2003 anymore.

What? How did I miss that? Is it 2004? Oh wait, man where have I been? Time does fly when you're having fun (or gettin' old)!

Yeah, I agree, bigger avatars would be nice. Disk space is amazingly cheap these days...

I want you guys to be able to see the pores on muh FACE!

...Just kidding, but yeah, of all of the sites I converted one of my recent pics into avatars for, this forum is the most restrictive. On facebook (yeah I'm on it... for shame) it's ridiculously big now.