Question about the size of an Avatar.

[Dsanders 5,748]

I was just wondering, but what determines the size of an avatar?

 

Is it the picture? The amount of KB? The pixel ratio? 

 

I'm also wondering about what determines how the quality of an image used for an avatar comes out?

 

These are just some little concerns of mine that have been bugging me for quite some time now. In my experience with using the avatars, whatever image I use, regardless of how big and high-def in quality it appears, once I make it into my avatar, it becomes really small and kinda low quality.

 

And I've seen plenty of other user's avatars come out nice, big, and good in quality

 

And most of the following user's aren't even donors or mods. 

 

So this makes me kind of confused. 

 

If you guys can check my profile, my avatar does appear relatively smaller than average, at least from what I've seen. 

 

I would like it to appear big and better in quality somehow. I've been editing it constantly, but it always seems to come out the same way. 

 

TL;DR

 

What determines the size and quality of an avatar?

 

What can I do, to make my avie appear larger and in better quality?

 

Again, I'm pretty sure not being a Donor, Subscriber, or Mod is not relevant to the problem here, as I've seen other regular members here with really good size and quality avatars.

 

 

Thanks in advance.

[Red Diamond 549]

The size limit is 150x150 for members. For subscribers, the size limit is bigger.

The amount of space it has to take for members is 150KB. I believe for subscribers, it's bigger.

[An Old Head 4,816]

From the looks of things you've tried to upload an avatar of subscriber/donor dimensions, and that's been resized by the automatic avatar resizing tool. This should explain why your avatar doesn't end up at the quality it should. Default users can upload 150x150 size images as their avatar (or similar dimensions, it gets resized - consider it a 1:1 ratio) whereas donors, subscribers and staff can upload 150x200 size images (or 3:4 ratio).

 

Users that have donor/subscriber dimensions as their avatar, while being a normal member, are members that used to have such a status, but it expired. You can upload a large avatar with that status, and it is kept after the status expires, provided you don't take it down/switch it for another avatar, in which case the limits are reimposed.

Edited October 6, 2013 by Flipturn

[Retro*Derpy 3,195]

Being a Donor will increase the size limit of your avatar and sig, but it will not affect the quality of the picture. Avatars for people who aren't donors will be 150x150 pixels. If it is slightly over the forums will convert it, but it will lose a little quality when done so. It'd be better if you just crop the image yourself using Gimp, Photoshop, etc. 

[Dsanders 5,748]

Thanks everypony. I'll try readjusting my avatar to the recommended ratio of pixels that you've all suggested and see how it goes.
 

The size limit is 150x150 for members. For subscribers, the size limit is bigger.
The amount of space it has to take for members is 150KB. I believe for subscribers, it's bigger.

I really want my avatar to have the same size and quality, as Light Azure's for example.

 

 

If that is truly 150 x 150 then I'll adjust mine to exactly that, and let you know how it goes.

[long gone 8,929]

I usually make my avatars 480x480, save them as a .jpg and upload those. Since the uploader works by whichever comes first (the 150kb filesize limit or 150x150 resolution limit) it still accepts them because they're below the filesize limit. This tends to give me some pretty good-quality avatars while having whatever I want to be in the avatar (since most of mine are cropped images) to be there.

[Princess Periwinkle 3,775]

 

 

If that is truly 150 x 150 then I'll adjust mine to exactly that, and let you know how it goes.

 

Looks like you got it to work. I'm going to lock this up, then.