Avatar Help Thread II

[Chukchi Husky]

 

[KaiserElectric]

What would we do without you Husky?

 

[dragonprobably]

Thanks for the avatar, Chukchi!

 

[KaiserElectric]

Not to pee on anyone's parade, but you can download the Microsoft Image Resizer...

Just a fair warning, I tried installing this and it didn't work while giving me some lovely adware for my troubles.

To keep it legal, any help resizing this? I tried it myself, but it just looks ugly.

Spoiler :

 

[NickyJ]

 

[KaiserElectric]

Danke.

 

[dragonprobably]

This without all the text, please:

 

[dragonprobably]

Nevermind.

 

[bhsup]

I need Lance Henriksen in his Aliens "Bishop" role in a Santa hat. I am not -set- on the image below, but I cannot find many that don't have the top of his head cropped. I do -not- want the one with him ripped in half... Thank you in advance for anyone willing to help me here

 

[Chukchi Husky]

 

[bhsup]

Oh man, Thank you so much, Chukchi! You rock!

One additional request, though. Could you please post the original unmodified pic for use after the holidays?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

 

[bhsup]

Much appreciated!

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I'm looking for a still from the 2012 movie to use as an avvie. Namely, the yellowstone supervolcano explosion part.

I know there's this: http://www.yellowstonegate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2012-supervolcano-eruption.jpg

And this: http://www.awn.com/files/imagepicker/35/2012-05_Volcano.jpg

But I want the former, without the damned human figures in the foreground blocking the magnificent view. And as always, google and duckduckgo have failed me *yet again*, so I'm asking someone with better search engine fu than me to find a similar shot slightly before or after the scene with the figures in the foreground that doesn't have those figures, a perfect view of the explosion itself. Preferrably completely un-edited. The larger the image size, the better.

 

[KaiserElectric]

Not so much a request as advice, but I want to set the background of my avatar to be transparent instead of white. Anyone familiar with paint.net that can help?

 

[Dachs]

Use the magic wand tool, set the percentage to something like 15-20%, and click on the white part of your avatar. I saved mine as a .gif because I'm not totally sure how other file extensions handle transparencies.

 

[Zelig]

jpg doesn't do transparencies for crap, png is generally better than gif but generates too large images for that yaykat photo. 50% tolerance works well for magic wand for that image.

Alternatively for some images check out the grim color reaper plugin.

 

[bhsup]

I don't have paint.net, but this was the best I could do with Paint Shop Pro. I know you said advice rather than request, but if you get tired of trying to get it, here ya go. GIF under 6K.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

There is a problem with transparency. If you take a .jpg and simply try to remove the white background, you will end up with a lot of random white pixels that surround the image.

 

[cardgame]

Yes, which are usually unnoticeable unless you're a perfectionist. Even so, it only takes 5-10 minutes of scrutiny to clear up.

artefact-less transparencies ftw