The avatar challenge

[andyc]

I can't change mine, I'm sorry...

Zippy's here to stay.. She's in for the long haul...

Good to see

 

[Adamc]

Well I regret those words

Haha. The noose is a nice addition though.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Time for the rest of the board to decide!

Bugger, I was hoping this would get forgotten!

If someone finds me an appropriately-sized photo of Shoaib's chicken thingy, I'll stick it in my avatar straightaway. It'll stay there until the Test series finishes, that's roughly a month after the prediction was proven false.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Bugger, I was hoping this would get forgotten!

If someone finds me an appropriately-sized photo of Shoaib's chicken thingy, I'll stick it in my avatar straightaway. It'll stay there until the Test series finishes, that's roughly a month after the prediction was proven false.

Can't find one of the chicken dance, will this do instead?

 

[andyc]

Can't find one of the chicken dance, will this do instead?

That's a bit unfair, at least Shoaib is good at the sport he plays

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I vote Shoaib doing the chicken-thingy!

This is close:

Image is (c) AFP.

 

[honestbharani]

Thanks for reminding me. And I will change my avatar to the MOM of the next game if India square the series against RSA.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Can't find one of the chicken dance, will this do instead?

That's just mean.

And how do I get an image down to a small enough size to stick it in my avatar? Always have trouble with that, can never work it out.

 

[The Baconator]

That's just mean.

And how do I get an image down to a small enough size to stick it in my avatar? Always have trouble with that, can never work it out.

I just use paint, but photoshop or something similar would probably be much better.

 

[Barney Rubble]

I just use paint, but photoshop or something similar would probably be much better.

How do you do it in paint? I try just making it smaller, but it always tells me there's too many pixels and that the image must be no larger than 100x100.

 

[Scaly piscine]

How do you do it in paint? I try just making it smaller, but it always tells me there's too many pixels and that the image must be no larger than 100x100.

In the Stretch/Skew put in 60 for horizontal and vertical, that'll keep the proportions the same and will get it inside the 100x100.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

How do you do it in paint? I try just making it smaller, but it always tells me there's too many pixels and that the image must be no larger than 100x100.

I just fiddle about with stretch/skew in Paint until the attributes are down to 100 x 100. There's probably an easier way but I've never found one.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

In the Stretch/Skew put in 60 for horizontal and vertical, that'll keep the proportions the same and will get it inside the 100x100.

Ah, you got there before me old cake.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I just fiddle about with stretch/skew in Paint until the attributes are down to 100 x 100. There's probably an easier way but I've never found one.

In this example you would do 100/150 (the picture is 150 across, 100 is the size you want it) = 66.6666666, so you'd put 67 (it doesn't accept decimals, so you still might end up doing multiple stretch/skews) in the horizontal bit and it'll shrink it to 100 or 101 across.

 

[PY]

Bugger, I was hoping this would get forgotten!

If someone finds me an appropriately-sized photo of Shoaib's chicken thingy, I'll stick it in my avatar straightaway. It'll stay there until the Test series finishes, that's roughly a month after the prediction was proven false.

I believe the challenge was to have it as your avatar for a month rather than the challenge being concluded a month from the event finishing.

 

[Barney Rubble]

I believe the challenge was to have it as your avatar for a month rather than the challenge being concluded a month from the event finishing.

Alright then, the avatar comes down on Christmas Day (not that I'll be online then) as that's a month from now.

 

[superkingdave]

If Yorkshire beat Lancashire in a FC match next season, i'll have Geoff Boycott as my avatar until the end ofthe domestic season

 

[Maison]

Go Simon Jones Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sledger]

if england go the series without one player getting a ton (england player that is) then il make my avatar liam gallacher for a month.

well, thanks ian bell and treso and KP, spared me from a terrible fate.

 

[Natman20]

If Australia lose the series against New Zealand I will change my avatar to a sumo in a tutu for a month which starts once my crazy frog promise is up.