Good girls and boys having seizures:

[Marshall Banana]

Murder increased the avatar size allowance, and we should promptly change our avatars to take advantage of the extra twenty pixels we get (within two weeks, he said)! =O

If you want your avatar resized, but you can't do it yourself, just let someone know; if you provide the original image that your avatar was made from, your new avatar will look even better!

If you need help in resizing your avatar, feel free to contact Shlupquack, Marshall Banana, Momiji, or Tavrobel and they will be able to assist you.

Rye mentioned in <a href="http://forums.eyesonff.com/feedback-forum/121579-because-were-good-girls-boys.html">the other thread</a> that she's willing to help, too!

Rantzien is also helping, I believe!

Because the KB allowance hasn't changed, here are tips for saving an avatar that's 80x80 and within 10 KB:

By the way, I found out the hard way that using Adobe ImageReady's "Save Optimized Image As" will actually enable you to use images that otherwise wouldn't fit within the filesize here.

For those using Photoshop and not ImageReady, use the Save For Web/Device option to get a good quality .gif or .png. I save all mine as PNG-8 and they are all under the filesize constraint and still pretty

For transparency on EoFF you should be using PNG-8 or GIF. PNG-8 has slightly better compression last I checked for much the same quality.

GIF is used for animations, duh.

JPEG is used for just about anything that doesn't use transparency(it generally has a better color palette and can be set up to fit within just about any size limit/quality).

PNG-24 is used for complex transparencies that look bad on GIF(you can build around it if you know GIF's limitations but for most people complex transparency is best in PNG-24). However, good luck getting PNG-24 images in under our size restraints. It isn't all that difficult to end up with a small signature with a simple transparency that is 50+kb size. And I have seen PNG-24 signatures that width and height wise would fit here that possess 300 or more kb in size.

PNG-24 is also used for any image if size doesn't matter. It is a standardized loseless file type that is readable in practically any software(unlike many loseless file types).