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check these out (potential new avatars)

17 replies · 3,038 views · Started 11 April 2002

yea, theres not many, but i will post more as i get there... i got bored today, and since i have 100mb of bitmaps for my desktop, i decided to cut, copy, paste, and so forth to make some kickass images (imo) 😊 oh yea, there come all ready to go (150 x 150)

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EDIT: THESE ARE NEWER ONES!

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waddya think? (more to come)

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2 for the ladies

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Breaker - Pixelated and ugly, kthx
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can you do better? ^_^ :laughing:

Most of the pictues themselves look good, but they're blurry and messy. It's probably from the Jpeg compression or the original images weren't that good. Try compressing them higher (above 75%) when saving as jpegs if you can to see if that helps.

Breaker, if you want to challenge his art work, try to do some StarCraft Concept Art avatars. Some of those are awesome and would be great avatars.

Originally posted by Mak-X
Most of the pictues themselves look good, but they're blurry and messy. It's probably from the Jpeg compression or the original images weren't that good. Try compressing them higher (above 75%) when saving as jpegs if you can to see if that helps.

I agree some of them look like they have been compressed too much.

aw well, i did the highest compression possible... maybe its because the they are from wallpapers meant for a 800x600 desktop...

Originally posted by Toolie
Breaker, if you want to challenge his art work, try to do some StarCraft Concept Art avatars. Some of those are awesome and would be great avatars.

First of all, he didn't create the drawings. What exactly would I have to challenge (I've added quite a few of my own work to the list already)? Btw, Starcraft sucks so nothx.

Originally posted by Breaker
Btw, Starcraft sucks so nothx.

:angry:

Wait a sec; didn't you use to play SC?

Since we are on disscusion about avatars, I think you guys should add some Golden Sun ones. That would be awsome!

Originally posted by Breaker
First of all, he didn't create the drawings. What exactly would I have to challenge (I've added quite a few of my own work to the list already)? Btw, Starcraft sucks so nothx.

hey man, no i DIDNT make them, sorry if anyone was under that impression, all i did was offer something new(er) for the people that skim thru the ava's...

im not Radium, i cant create neat shit like that... 3d imaging is NOT my cup -o- tea... :shrug:

Originally posted by Gerudo
aw well, i did the highest compression possible... maybe its because the they are from wallpapers meant for a 800x600 desktop...

Did you say earlier that you had a bunch of BMPs that you were using? If so, were the original wallpapers Jpegs on the website, and you saved them as a BMP? If you saved a Jpeg as a BMP instead of a Jpeg, your going to loose a lot of quality because the image is being put into the BMP format and then re-compressed. Save a Jpeg image as a Jpeg, and a Gif as a Gif to retain image quality.

You have to be careful which formats you export as...

So if I took a pic, a Jpeg, and exported it as a GIF, no matter what...it's gonna look "compressed" because a .gif's palette is not as detailed as .jpg's.

If you have a .gif, and export it as .jpg, you won't lose any quality (usually).

Same with .bmps -> .gifs. You lose quality.

With my program, Fireworks...you can try and "up" the quality or mess with the palette, but you usually can't get the same quality as the original, unless you do an inferior to superior format.