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[emmylala2003]

I'm new and need some help. I had a few questions.

First, can I provide an avatar gallery to my users? and upload avatars that they can choose to display under their user names? I activated this function but when I go into my profile, I do not see any button for a gallery. All your able to do is link or use a URL.

Second, I noticed the default size for avatars is 6KB, which is very very small. I tried to change it in my admin panel but all I can change is the dimensions (80X80, 100X100) but not the KB. Why is that?

Also, you mentioned that you modified about 150 existing themes so that we could use our own banners in place of the phpBB preloaded one. I know your working on doing them all, but could your provide us with a list of those they have already been modified?

Lastly, I'd like to create my own theme from scratch. I know I can use an existing template to do it, but I'm clueless on where to start. Do you have a guide or some information that can give some help?

I know there are alot of questions, and there might be more, but like I said, I'm clueless.

Thanks for you help
M

[wolfman]

well lets see if i can help...

1.) You can put a thread on your site for that, just label it avatars, and give them the image and the link...

2.) If you take the image in to photoshop, or a program like that, you should be able to change every thing and it will still look good without it being more than 6 KB...

3.) I am interested in that list also...

4.) I am working with that currently working with that also, and found that it is hard to create anything with our altering the banner and you cannot put in a different BG...

Im sorry if non of this helps, but i can only try...

[support]

You can only upload or link to a avatar. I will check if I can put some avatars who will be available to all our users.

The size of the avatar cannot be changed.

About the list of modified templates.. it's hard to make such a list but I can assure you all that all templates will have the banner mod installed tomorrow

Regarding the making of a new template.. you must start from another existing template (subsilver) and start modify. You can find more informations about this here: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=23

[emmylala2003]

I've created avi's for other forums that are 100 x 100, but the KB's are somewhere near 10 or 11. The only way to use the avi's I've already created here, is to make them smaller in size so that the file itself is no bigger than 6kb. Which makes the image super tiny, see an example below. How do I keep the avi size 100x100 or 80x80, while at the same time lowering the file to 6KB without compromising the quality?
10KB (approx)


6KB (approx)

[support]

with some tweaking in photoshop... 6 kb

[emmylala2003]

Wow that's great. How did you do that?

I don't have photoshop. I do have Microsoft Digital Suite, Paint Shop Pro & Photoshop Elements.

[support]

In Photoshop you have more export options and you can select the quality and number of collors of the jpg file. Just get the free trial of Photoshop and you will see how many things you can do with it

BTW.. great avatar

[wolfman]

<--- this is mine that i use on almost all the forums i visit, If you still are having trouble with photoshop, i would be willing to edit the images for you if you cant seam to figure it out...

photoshop elements will do what you want... thats what i use, not enough money to get a newer verion

[emmylala2003]

I'll try to do it using elements. If I still have problems, I might have to take you up on your offer Wolfman. I know what you mean about Photoshop, that bad boy goes for like $500 bucks !

So how's your theme creating coming? I'm not doing so hot. I'm totally clueless on how to even start. Have you tried the link support left?

[wolfman]

no, i havent had a chance to. I have had some other stuff keeping be buisy...

If you need help just let me know, that i can actulay do fairly well!

[emmylala2003]

Help? Yeah I need alot of that. Actually, what I need is like a step by step guide on how to create one. I don't mean just changing the colors for subSilver either, I'm talking about making it look something unique. I like something like Jenova, but I wouldn't even know how to start making something like that.

Does your forum have a theme you created on it?

[wolfman]

no im still trying to understand what every thin is/does... but i will look and see if i can figure somthing out to help you.

what do you want, as in colors, and i cant do anything with banners yat i dont know how.

edited: ok, ya this is confusing, it says bg color but, it doesnt change any background color... maybe it wont work the way i thought..., i dont know but anything with photoshop i can do!

[emmylala2003]

<--- this is mine that i use on almost all the forums i visit, If you still are having trouble with photoshop, i would be willing to edit the images for you if you cant seam to figure it out...

photoshop elements will do what you want... thats what i use, not enough money to get a newer verion

Ok, I'm still having trouble getting these images under 6KB. Can you please help me figure out how to do this?

[wolfman]

well each picture is different... if you want to post it, i will look and tell you what you have to do with it... if i can...