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Ghost Pro Member Creampies, Blowjobs and Asians..... Oh My! 236 Posts 9/04	Posted - Dec 27 2004 : 6:22AM Can someone tell me how to add one of the cool pictures by my name? I am avatar challenged. ghostpro.com [Link]
DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02	Posted - Dec 27 2004 : 7:40AM Hi Ghost Pro, Here is a small tutorial that may help you out. DenverDon [Link]
BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04	Posted - Dec 27 2004 : 11:53AM The answer to your next question is... ImageShack The following exchange from a previous thread about avatars should explain it for you :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have created a perfectly-sized avatar to use and have read the tutorial. The tutorial does not answer Catch-22, which is... How do you upload your JPG to Adult DVD Talk so that you can have your pic hosted online with a URL address to link to? Or, do you have to have it hosted somewhere else? Please help... this is driving me crazy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You have to host it somewhere else. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BB, you might check out imageshack.com its free and easy to use. Just save your avatar to your pictures folder and head to the site. Click "Browse", it will automatically open the folder. Highlight it and hit "Host it" then write down its new address and add it to your profile here and your golden. BTW It will give you several versions of the new address, it should be the one on top that says it's for forums. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This worked just fine... Elastigirl and I thank you. [Link]
Ghost Pro Member Creampies, Blowjobs and Asians..... Oh My! 236 Posts 9/04	Posted - Dec 29 2004 : 4:36AM Thank you both. This was the best Christmas present ever! ghostpro.com [Link]
DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02	Posted - Dec 29 2004 : 9:04AM Congrats on getting it up. However, you need to find a different (smaller) picture. The guidelines are for a file size of 5k max, and yours is nearly three times that. DenverDon [Link]

Ghost Pro Member Creampies, Blowjobs and Asians..... Oh My! 236 Posts 9/04	Posted - Dec 29 2004 : 7:36PM Thank Don. I didn't notice that! The new one should be close to 5k. ghostpro.com [Link]
Mojo Deactivated User 1223 Posts 9/03	Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 4:18PM Can anyone tell me how to modify my profile so I can add my Avatar? All I've got on my Profile is my User Name and my password???? Edited by - Mojo on 1/15/2005 4:22:19 PM [Link]
Ghost Pro Member Creampies, Blowjobs and Asians..... Oh My! 236 Posts 9/04	Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 5:08PM Mojo wrote: Can anyone tell me how to modify my profile so I can add my Avatar? All I've got on my Profile is my User Name and my password???? Edited by - Mojo on 1/15/2005 4:22:19 PM Click to expand Mojo, just read the above tutorial. Once you have chosen your image, make sure it's the right size (5k). The use the above info to host the image. After you do that, cut-n-paste the info into the "location" section of your profile. You'll be good to go! ghostpro.com [Link]
Mojo Deactivated User 1223 Posts 9/03	Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 5:15PM Check my profile and you'll see what I mean. There's no location slot for me to put it in. feeling frustrated Edited by - Mojo on 1/15/2005 5:15:58 PM [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 5:23PM Next to the register to post link is a link for Profile at the top of the forum pages. When you click on it you'll get a pop up that asks you for your user name and password. When you do that you'll get a screen with these options: User Name Password 6 - 20 characters Password Again Email Address ICQ Number AIM Username Location view # posts per page Subscribe to forum administrative emails Subscribe to Adult DVD Talk newsletter Hide my email address from forum users Signature: As you can see, Location is the sixth option down. Hope this helps. [Link]
Valentino Member Celina Jaitly, the new Goddess...... 448 Posts 8/04	Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 6:14PM And what if I want to change my avatar? Will my old avatar be automatically removed from your server? ''The unexamined life is not worth living'' [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 6:17PM the old avatars will still be on the server here, but they will not be displayed as part of your user to the left of your posts. i recommend to anyone that has an avatar stored on our server to save it to your computer so you can upload it to your profile after the switch is made. [Link]
DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02	Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 6:25PM How do we upload? DenverDon [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 6:44PM It will be a an easy upload using your browser. No FTP stuff required. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 1:35AM give it a whirl. to add an avatar using the new method open your user profile with the "Profile" link near the top of the page. There's now an option to add or change an avatar associated with a user profile. The old method of displaying avatars still works but this isn't going to stick around much longer. We'll most likely make a more general announcement when we're sure that this new stuff works well. [Link]

Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:33AM Can we still add a link to the avatar in the new system? Jacco [Link]
Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:36AM Denver Don has two of the same avatars in another post Now its one again, never mind Edited by - redish on 1/16/2005 2:37:10 AM [Link]
DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:36AM I uploaded it, and it shows up as a current avatar, but the old link to adultdvdtalk server is there also. Which one is active? ------------------- Oops, never mind. When I went back into my profile the adultdvdtalk link has disappeared. Edited by - DenverDon on 1/16/2005 2:37:56 AM [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:38AM both are active. I edited your profile to remove the avatar in the Location field. [Link]
DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:39AM Ah, ok, thanks. [Link]
Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:40AM How will this affect those of us that have you host our avatars? [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:41AM I'm sure we're going to have lots of confusion at first, especially when I disable the old mechanism. The new method is fairly easy, no? [Link]
DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:42AM Redish, my avatar is hosted at ADT. It loads up fine, but apparently if you have an old link you need to edit it out. I think you said that two of mine showed up. Now only one does. My avatar is in the new location now. DenverDon Edited to add: yes, very simple process. A lot easier than trying to explain URLs and such with the [ img ] command. Edited by - DenverDon on 1/16/2005 2:42:39 AM [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:42AM Redish wrote: How will this affect those of us that have you host our avatars? Click to expand We will be hosting all avatars with the new system. To convert to the new system you'll need to save your current avatar from our server to your computer. (Right-click, save file). Then upload that into your profile using the upload utility. [Link]
DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:44AM Question, can there be multiple avatars that you can switch back and forth with, or only one at a time? Edited by - DenverDon on 1/16/2005 2:44:37 AM [Link]

Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:45AM Redish, I converted your avatar to the new system. [Link]
Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:47AM Thank you. I was just trying to do that myself. [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 3:31AM Drew, thanks for changing mine over as well. I assume you did because when I went over to change it, it had already been changed into the new system. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 3:53AM DenverDon wrote: Question, can there be multiple avatars that you can switch back and forth with, or only one at a time? Click to expand One at a time. [Link]
Kperv The Cuddler *struck (She slipped) 1818 Posts 1/04	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 4:49AM Works fine for me too. Had to change the lowercase "jpeg" extension to "JPG" for the system to accept it as a Jpeg. I'm kinda curious as to why the forced Jpeg conversion. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 4:55AM Kperv wrote: I'm kinda curious as to why the forced Jpeg conversion. Click to expand It's the easiest way to avoid animated GIFs. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 4:57AM Kperv wrote: Had to change the lowercase "jpeg" extension to "JPG" for the system to accept it as a Jpeg. Click to expand I didn't think of the four character extension. I'll add those. It's case-insensitive though. [Link]
Kperv The Cuddler *struck (She slipped) 1818 Posts 1/04	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 5:27AM Drew Black wrote: It's the easiest way to avoid animated GIFs. Click to expand Sneaky. So PNG's should've been OK, or is Explorer's PNG support still lacking? [Link]
Mojo Deactivated User 1223 Posts 9/03	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 9:01AM Flash wrote: Next to the register to post link is a link for Profile at the top of the forum pages. When you click on it you'll get a pop up that asks you for your user name and password. When you do that you'll get a screen with these Click to expand BINGO!!! That's the bit that helped me. Thanks for the help! [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 9:51AM So PNG's should've been OK, or is Explorer's PNG support still lacking? Click to expand Is there a problem with PNG files not working? [Link]

cv Member My reviews[/url] 594 Posts 7/03	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 12:00PM Explorer doesn't support PNG transparency. That's really the main shortcoming. Hmmm, maybe Drew is asking if PNG conversion is working. Don't have an answer to that since I uploaded a JPEG. Edited by - cv on 1/16/2005 12:21:10 PM [Link]
Kperv The Cuddler *struck (She slipped) 1818 Posts 1/04	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 1:37PM Drew Black wrote: Is there a problem with PNG files not working? Click to expand I haven't tried. I was just wondering why PNG's were also automatically converted to Jpeg as PNG files aren't animated. The avatar I uploaded couldn't be compressed much harder with Jpeg without looking smudged. With PNG's lossless compression it's only a little over half the size of the Jpeg. Jpeg: 4827 bytes GIF: 2715 bytes PNG: 2561 bytes[/code] No big deal, just wondering. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 1:41PM I'm using jpgs because I don't actually store the filename in the database. The avatar file name is a function of the member's ID. i.e. 123.jpg is the avatar for member 123. If the bandwidth savings are that significant I may spend a little time implementing additional file types. [Link]
Kperv The Cuddler *struck (She slipped) 1818 Posts 1/04	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 1:56PM Drew Black wrote: If the bandwidth savings are that significant I may spend a little time implementing additional file types. Click to expand Depends on the image type. PNG and GIF are better for toon(ish) images with large areas of a single colour. Ghost Pro's avatar with it's colour gradient is over the 5k limit as it is. I tried converting it to Jpeg and could compress it down to 2k without major quality loss. [Link]
Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 2:47PM Maybe you could add a "Remove avatar" option in case people decide they don't like what they put up and have no replacement available. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 3:06PM good point. [Link]
Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 5:27PM Hmm, looks like it rescales the image, it looks awful now. And now it is gone, it shows up in my profile, but not here. Tries it with a 75x100 jpg... Still no image showing up, Drew help please! Jacco Edited by - jacco on 1/16/2005 5:27:50 PM Edited by - jacco on 1/16/2005 5:29:07 PM Edited by - jacco on 1/16/2005 5:40:36 PM Edited by - jacco on 1/16/2005 5:41:19 PM [Link]
DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02	Posted - Jan 16 2005 : 10:46PM Jacco, It shows up on my screen. Also, you might try hitting refresh. If that doesn't work, then try exiting, deleting all your cookies, and then re-entering. That might do the trick. Edited by - DenverDon on 1/16/2005 10:47:38 PM [Link]
Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04	Posted - Jan 17 2005 : 6:04AM Tried refreshing, logging out, deleting cookies, still no avatar??? Jacco [Link]
licker Senior Member Heretic, Iconoclast, Skeptic 1141 Posts 8/03	Posted - Jan 17 2005 : 7:43AM Drew, does it rescale the image up to 100 pixels if it is smaller? I tried to make mine smaller but it just got blurrier and more pixelated when I uploaded the smaller version. [Link]
oatmeal Meat Popsicle Seeking Beauty 1738 Posts 8/04	Posted - Jan 17 2005 : 10:10AM It didn't work for me, I went through the process but a broken link was shown at the "Your new avatar image has been uploaded" page. The profile settings were unchanged. Can any account add an avatar? Edited by - oatmeal on 1/17/2005 10:19:04 AM [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 17 2005 : 2:56PM any account should be able to upload an avatar. [Link]
Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04	Posted - Jan 17 2005 : 5:27PM test dude wrote: jacco wrote: Tried refreshing, logging out, deleting cookies, still no avatar??? Jacco Click to expand Instead of a normal refresh press Ctrl+F5. This forces the page to reload everything. The server instructs your browser to cache the avatar for 24 hours. You're seeing the old one because it's coming from your local hard drive cache instead of the web server. Click to expand I did not see the old avatar, but no avatar. I checked a bit more, when I remove the link for the avatar it displays properly. Some more checking and source reading shows that no avatar with a link in it shows up on my system (Mozilla 1.7.3), but it works on Firefox 1.0 Hmmm... Jacco [Link]
Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04	Posted - Jan 17 2005 : 5:48PM Tried again with Mozilla 1.7.5, with link no avatar, without it shows up. Let's try a few more browsers: Firefox 1.0: ok Konqueror 3.3.2: ok Opera 7.51: ok Internet Explorer 6.0: ok Lynx (oh never mind) So the problem is Mozilla specific... Jacco [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jan 17 2005 : 6:22PM I edited your profile to include a link and tested it with Mozilla 1.6. It worked fine for me. What link are you using? [Link]
licker Senior Member Heretic, Iconoclast, Skeptic 1141 Posts 8/03	Posted - Jan 17 2005 : 8:32PM Sorry Drew - I tried agin and now the upload does not work at all. The confirmation page appears, with the words "Your new avatar image has been uploaded:", but the confirmation image just shows a broken picture link. When I refresh the forum pages, I have no avatar now. test dude wrote: licker wrote: Drew, does it rescale the image up to 100 pixels if it is smaller? I tried to make mine smaller but it just got blurrier and more pixelated when I uploaded the smaller version. Click to expand Try it again. I modified the resizeing logic. It wasn't working properly for images that were under 100px in either dimension. Click to expand [Link]

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