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I like to think that I know a thing or two about avatars. After all, my rotating avatar contains over 900 avatars as of this writing. As such, I've spent quite a bit of time making them. While some of my earlier ones lack some of the finesse of my newer ones, I like to think that gives me some expertise when it comes to avatars. Here are two pet peeves of mine that are easy fixes and have no excuses.
Resize your images. When BZP displays an avatar that is bigger than 64x64, it automatically scales it down for you. Unfortunately, it looks awful after the scaling. All you have to do is open the image in your editor of choice, scale it down, and save it. It looks a lot better Consider the following:Resized with MSPaint:
Resized with BZP: ..'...
It takes less than a minute to do and makes your avatar look a lot better
Add a border. Go into MS Paint or whatever and draw a black box around your avatar. It looks better that way.There's no excuse for not doing either of these. All in all it takes less than three minutes and keeps your avatar from being an eye sore. Please, save my sight and just take the time to implement these simple steps.
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