Avatar automatic resize?

[saulylee]

When you upload a new image for your avatar is it automatically resized to the correct size or are you suppose to do it before you upload. The reason I ask is I uploaded an image that was bigger than recommended (accidentally) and it seems to have resized it. Is there any way to tell what the size is now?

[Aimee]

80 x 60 pixels

[saulylee]

Thanks heaps for that Aimee, I started uploading it and then realised it was highly likely too big and panicked lol.

Lee

[lindys]

I hope I am not creating admin headaches when I upload my huge pics- I never resized once I realised it happened automatically!

[Ladybird]

Does this mean if I put a photo in as my avatar it will automatically be resized no matter how big it is? Does this go for pictures in posts too?

[kirrily]

I'd think that the software will scale it down to fit in the avatar space because any HTML can tell an image to be a certain size, but I wonder if it scales it down in terms of file size etc? I would think that part of the reason that we are asked to make it small is so that people aren't having to download large files. A large file (in terms of bytes) can be displayed as a tiny image but still have all the underlying data that makes it a large file.

[blondeboys]

i have tried to resize my image for an avatar on photobucket, but it isnt the right size, and the size in the guidelines makes it look distorted, am i doing somethin wrong?