Reminder to upload/change my icon. March 15, right?

Sethro

I really want to change my icon, but I keep missing the date. I am starting this thread to remind myself.

CrazyMind2017

1) Why can't you change it right now?

2) Is that Q-Bert?

Sethro

1) I want to upload an icon that another board member made for me. Apparently you can only upload once a month. I think it's the 15th.

2) Yes!

EagleEyeKid

Yes it is on the 15th and I like your Q-bert avatar. Hated that game though.

CrazyMind2017

Q-Bert in the arcade was fun. On home video game systems, not so much.

Sethro

Thanks for the Q-Bert love. Agreed on the home game playability, although I think that goes for almost any home system adaptation of arcade games back then.

Nascar360

Does anyone know the pixel size limit for the icons?

Sethro

I think it's 100 x 100.

Sethro

Uploaded my new icon. Yay.

LarryP

SETHRO,

Thanks for posting the reminder ...

HOTTY TODDY!
-Larry

cellos

Just uploaded my new icon.

Southsider

Thanks for the reminder, I've been trying to remember for close to 6 months now.

TmbrWolf22

Thanks for the reminder

Bigjohn69

does anyone know why im getting this message when trying to upload an avitar with the correct pixels, kb?

There was an error reading your Author Icon. The Error was: Could not determine the format of the file d:forums.collectors.com/i/authorsicons/ACF1880.jpg CF_IMAGEINFO: Format Not Recognized

Sean1125

Well John... What it said is that it can't read a jpg file... Which is one of the most common picture files there is... Not sure why.


You should probably try refreshing or closing your browser and try again. Make sure its <10kb and 100x100 pixels or less.

dtkk49a

I don't see the upload button. Did I miss the window?

Sean1125

Click Profile in the top right, then scroll all the way down. You should see something that says

"Upload your own author icon

Maximum image size is 100 pixels by 100 pixels at 10 KB."

Click "Choose File" (In between these words), and then select what you wanted to upload.

dtkk49a

I do not see that

Bigjohn69

still not working, anyone else upload recently having the same problem? thanks sean for trying to help

cpamike

Hey Guys, lots of great choices.

Seth, good thing you didn't have a contest about what your new icon would be as I knew it was going to be Mr. Lenny Randle.

Clint, now I won't get you and ThunderDan confused anymore.

jwgators

I just changed mine without a problem.

Nascar360

Me too!

MithrilMan

<< <i>I do not see that >>



+1

I guess I fail.

Bigjohn69

i can use plenty of the stock photos but i wanted to upload my own, i have the browse button on my profile, click on it, go to my 100 x 100 less than 10kb photo, click on it to update and get that same message,, format not recognized,, ive tried changing the name of the photo thinking i may have duplicated someone elses, still nothing ,, when i click to upload it puts a file name i did not use such as ACD38D,jpg,, it changed it on its own, thats not the file i selected.

TmbrWolf22

yeah....that was the idea. Hope nobody gets upset that I used this avatar. I'm not computer savvy enough to upload one of my own. Just wanted it to be different.

DDaniel83

Why do they only allow a certain day to change ICON?

Big80s

<< <i>Why do they only allow a certain day to change ICON? >>



Great question. I feel relatively computer savy - and I still can't get a new avatar loaded. Do you need to be using a specific browser?

DDaniel83

This is the link that helped me to resize the image----has to fit under 10x10 pixels and can't be large than 10kb


Resize Image

Bigjohn69

<< <i>This is the link that helped me to resize the image----has to fit under 10x10 pixels and can't be large than 10kb


Resize Image >>



already done that,, i see im not the only one having probs

DDaniel83

I'm not sure then, I had some troubles but once I finally got the image the right size it worked fine

BPorter26

Edit: I figured out what I was doing wrong

cellos

<< <i>does anyone know why im getting this message when trying to upload an avitar with the correct pixels, kb?

There was an error reading your Author Icon. The Error was: Could not determine the format of the file d:forums.collectors.com/i/authorsicons/ACF1880.jpg CF_IMAGEINFO: Format Not Recognized >>



I had the same error message when I tried to upload my new icon. I had it saved on my laptop and resized it but the site wouldn't accept it. After trying for about 15 minutes I went to my photobucket account where I have the same image. I resized and compressed it using photobucket then I saved that image to my laptop. I don't know what the difference was but the site accepted that one.

MithrilMan

AHA. You can't do it from my apple browser. Went to a PC and voila it gives you a choice to upload!







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<< <i>I do not see that >>



+1

I guess I fail.

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Big80s

<< <i>AHA. You can't do it from my apple browser. Went to a PC and voila it gives you a choice to upload! >>



I just figured this out myself. Booyaa

GDM67

Is the 10kb requirement a recent addition? I've added a number of icons over the years but it's really difficult for me to get under that limit with my current setup.

CollectorAtWork

Woo, woo, I finally have an icon!

What I did to get the icon within the size limits was to just edit the picture in pbrush on Windows, and then use from the Menu: Image -> Stretch/Skew to reduce the image to the correct size. A couple of times of 50% reductions for both horizontal and vertical did the trick.

AMERTZ

<< <i>I really want to change my icon, but I keep missing the date. I am starting this thread to remind myself. >>



Looking good!

Darin

This has to be one of the biggest mass avatar changings in history. Now I have to retrain my over worked brain to recognize the new avatars'.

I'll see if large quantitys' of Bud Light help.

LarryP

Ttt

It's just about that time of the month again.

Thanks,
-Larry

Sethro

Thanks Larry! Somehow I lost my Len Randle icon again. I updated my profile and it gave me the penny icon!