Avatars

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this question I have. When you have your own avatar, and try putting the URL in, it says you can't use it because it isn't Jpg, and all that (I don't remember the rest of them) and it won't except Bmp. is there a way around this? Or am I missing something?

You can pnly use GIF's,JPG's or PNG's. All others dont work.

Darn! :mad: Thank-you Exadis.

No problem. If you have the choice save it as a PNG there the best quality.

Uh... no. PNG images have problems that JPG usually don't. Also, the ideal format for an avatar is GIF. Try using that. Never use BMP, by the way.

My computer must be weird then, because when I save something as a PNG, the image's quality stays exactly the same. What problems are you reffering to?

I think I readsomewhere that gamma increased or decreased a bitm in PNG, but I might be wrong. And you can make jpgs really good quality in Photoshop. GIFs are OK I guess.

PNG's have bad IE browser support. IE doesn't like transparent PNG's, where as they like Transparent GIF's. Go for JPEG or GIF.