Avatar help?

Big Tuna

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2009

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14 Oct 2010 at 00:05 - 1
I know these are the specifications for avatars: The maximum size of your custom image is 100 by 100 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller).

So shouldn't a 150x150 avatar or a 110 x 105 avatar with less KBs work?

What are they trying to say with 'whichever is smaller'?

Thanks.

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Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

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14 Oct 2010 at 00:15 - 2
that it must be BOTH under 100x100 AND 19.5 kb

Big Tuna

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2009

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14 Oct 2010 at 00:25 - 3
Quote:
Originally Posted by End View Post
that it must be BOTH under 100x100 AND 19.5 kb
Thank you for the response.

But when it says 'whichever is smaller', doesn't that mean you just have to satisfy one of the criteria? (Like it will accept a larger pixel avatar because the memory is smaller? Otherwise why would it bother saying 'whichever is smaller' at the end? Surely it would just say the maxium is xxx and xxx)

Can you explain it, please?

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Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

N/A

14 Oct 2010 at 00:43 - 4
err it's kinda hard to explain...Basically, when it says things like that it usually means that theres multiple critera and that it has to satisfy both. I am really bad explaining things like this though. Sorry.

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

14 Oct 2010 at 03:57 - 5
It does mean you must satisfy both conditions.

The maximum size of your custom image is 100 by 100 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller).

Is equivalent to:

The size of your custom image must be less than 100x100 pixels and 19.5kb.

mathiastemplar

mathiastemplar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2008

Denmark

Jade Reapers [JD]

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14 Oct 2010 at 13:23 - 6
I really had no trouble uploading my avatar even though it's 23.5 KB

As long as it's 100x100 I think you'll be fine..

I COULD BE WRONG

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

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14 Oct 2010 at 15:21 - 7
Basically, whoever wrote whichever is smaller has a poor grasp of the English language.*

Stick with 100*100 and make it as small a filesize as you can.


*nerds - what ya gonna do?

Cuilan

Cuilan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2008

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14 Oct 2010 at 18:40 - 8
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/ for a quick way to lower file size or http://www.pixlr.com/editor/ to edit the file size and image size.

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

15 Oct 2010 at 14:05 - 9
Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Tuna View Post
The maximum size of your custom image is 100 by 100 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller).

So shouldn't a 150x150 avatar or a 110 x 105 avatar with less KBs work?

What are they trying to say with 'whichever is smaller'?
As has been said, it's basically just a grammatical error. It should really say "whichever is largest" - in other words it can't be larger than 100x100 or more than 19.5k.

A 150x150 or 110x105 avatar would be too big, pixel-wise. An 80x80 avatar that is 25kb would be too big, file-wise.