how can I input an avatar image?


Thank you - very much appreciate the advice!From MacBeth: "BFT: to post an image here, it has to be hosted somewhere online. Most of us use Photobucket, because it's free. You'll want to start by setting up a Photobucket account and reading their tutorials. I have a Photobucket account, but most of my images are hosted at my own Livejournal account.
My own #1 tips for Photobucket: ORGANIZE BEFORE YOU START POSTING. Set up folders and upload your images INTO the folders. You can't change folders after you post something, because it breaks the links. The old forums here are littered with dead links from when hosted images were moved or deleted, which is sad.
Tag images when you post them (that is, add the tag "Posted"). That way you know if you've already posted a given pic."
As Jediferret said, there's a limit on both image size and file size. It's actually a real pain getting a standard icon down to under 10 Kb -- not only that, most icons are 100 by 100 pixels.cmbj67 wrote:how can I input an avatar image?I've been trying for days but all my saved pictures are not accepted.
Maybe, as you suspect, it's that the quality of the originals is not too good. I have that problem with most of MacGyver movies. I know they are copies -bad ones at that- and have to work on them a lot in Photoshop but can't really improve them.Anne wrote:Here's a cry for help to... Beth, I think, since she's the how-to gal when it comes to cappingBut really, anyone doing screencaps, maybe you can help me...
So, for some art thingy I'm working on atm, I've been trying to screencap some SG-1 episodes. And while I know how to do screencaps in VLC player and Sony Vegas... my problem is, that they are just awfully BAD. The quality is so horrible, and they are not really big either. They are coming out small and totally blurry and full of visible pixels etc. And no matter how many filters and brushes I put them through, it's not getting any better. I do pause the movie to take caps, but I suspect my DVDs are really not that much of a great quality either.
I've seen some pretty cool screen shots in the Thunk Thread which are BIG as well. What kind of sotfware do you use for capping? Or are those Blue Ray caps?
I'm driving myself crazy with this, so any kind of support would be very very welcome, thank you!
No, I'm not specifically required to make my own, but I thought I could maybe make better ones than those. But - I cannot, lol. Usually I am using those too and touch them up, but they are not good enough for what I had to do. Oh, well, I'll get by without caps, I guess.MacBeth wrote:Are you required to make your own caps? There are complete screencap libraries of all the Stargate SG-1 episodes at this site:
http://www.stargatecaps.com/
Ohhh, now, see, I don't think I can do that with VLC. At least I can't find anything in the preferences that allows me to make higher res pictures. I will go to the help section and see if I can dig it up somewhere else, though, that's a good idea. Am also going to look up WinDVD as well.MacBeth wrote:The capping software I use is a rather old program (from 2008), called WinDVD. I don't know if it's still available.
If your project requires you to make your own, there are a few tips I use:
- always go through all the preferences and tools in your capping software and find out what's there. You can't use a tool if you don't know you have it.
- the critical point is when you initially save the image: get the highest-resolution you can.