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YorkshireKing

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Posted: Nov 27, 2007 - 11:52 AM
Post subject: Uploading your Avatar (picture) to ShanghaiExpat profile

Whats going on with my avatar, tried to change it followed the rules, Jpeg format, no bigger than 100x100 pixels, now I have none at all.

Do you approve them?? whats with half english/half french message on account>change avatar screen .

SHexpat Team help??

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YorkshireKing

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Posted: Nov 27, 2007 - 12:43 PM

Someone move this to Q&A or relevent forum,

Thanks in advance

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MarkDow

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Posted: June 24, 2008 - 11:31 PM
Post subject: Putting a picture on Shanghaiexpat

How do you put a picture on your account in Shanghaiexpat? I have tried to upload under the My Accounmt page but there always seems to be an error. I then compressed the file and tried to no avail. I am unsure of editing the pic to be 100 x 100. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks!

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SoCalGal

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Posted: June 25, 2008 - 06:31 AM

I'm having the exact same problem! Help!!! Crying or Very sad

CoffeeHawk_0
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Posted: June 25, 2008 - 06:35 AM

the file should be 100x100 pixels or less, smaller than 28, or maybe 24kb in size, and be in .jpg or .gif format.

there's many free, simple graphics programs that will allow you to shrink the size of the picture and save it as a .jpg or .gif, paint shop pro is one of these.

Renovator

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Posted: June 25, 2008 - 08:17 AM

Another quick way to shrink a .jpg if you have a hotmail email account (or set up a hot mail account). When you upload your picture in hotmail, email it back to yourself or someone else and the kb's will be shrunk dramatically. I often find this much faster than using one of our in-house optimization programs.

MarkDow

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Posted: June 26, 2008 - 07:00 AM
Post subject: Thanks

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try the email option first...I hope I can get it to work and get a picture on here.

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vinya

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Posted: June 26, 2008 - 09:54 AM

Open your file using Microsoft Photo Editor. Go to IMAGE, click RESIZE, you will see an arrow under units that show "inches", change that to PIXEL then adjust the width & height. Goodluck!

Michael

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Posted: June 26, 2008 - 10:29 AM

Here is the thread we will start collecting questions related to your avatar
http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/index.php?name=MDForum&file=viewtopic&p=7 63727#763727

It has to be both 100x100 pixels or smaller and 25K or smaller in filesize. Has to be gi, jpg, or png format.