Due to the increasing amount of unjustifiably large signatures, we've decided it's time to enforce restrictions.
- You may have one (single) signature graphic. - This graphic must be no bigger than 400px in width and 90px in height. - We ask that you respect narrowband users and keep your signatures saved in low file-size formats.
We ask you all to start converting your current signatures to fit these standards, after the 15th of July we will start warning and temporarily banning users breaking these guidlines.
omg w00t! ive seen some pretty ridiculous sigs in my time (most of them on gamearena forums:P) and its good to see this forum ensuring we can read more that 2lines of text when someones sig is on the page :P
umm open photoshop or some other software of similar likliness and create a picture u find desirable (according to size restrictions of course). upload it to webspace and slap the url in where it asks in ur profile...huzzah!
[quote=Openfj0re]if we suck at photoshop can we get some from another site?[/url][/quote] if u dont breach any copyright laws its not a problema nd under the size limit i would sujest tho if u want a nice personalized image ask smitty to give ya a hand he loves making images and he dose have a talent in my opionion i am sure he would be happy to make u one
Um... Exodus, I can fix your sig if you want. I'll be able to make it fit, if not - I'll make something better. That applies for most people here, I can probably make you's a signature! E-mail me @ [email]oz_phorce@hotmail.com[/email]. And my e-mail, I mean E-MAIL. I don't use MSN Messenger cos it's ghetto. Um, about the restrictions, what if it's say, 200x100 :) Or just NO acceptions at all. For people who don't know how to take an image from a site. Well, if you see something you like, RIGHT-click it, and go to properties and go to the "address/URL" and copy that! You might want to make sure you can link directly though - also, make sure to ask if you can use it. Most sites will let you, but there are some stingy ones. But they have their rights.
Hah! I'm back (all of 10 minutes later!). Okay, well I fixed my signature, nothing fancy this time. It meets the requirement. If anyone wants to know my level of skill, check out my Avatar! I made it :) Which means, AMD can't really do much about my doing stuff with it! Cos I made it! Heh-heh :) Blar blar blar... I need food...
Quote from rec: We ask you all to start converting your current signatures to fit these standards, after the 15th of July we will start warning and temporarily banning users breaking these guidlines.
Yessum... Date has passed, my screen is still getting filled with useless sigs clogging my screen and making me read through threads more slowly, also my precious bandwidth is being wasted on such sigs when I could be downloading.....
Yes, I've noticed a few larger signatures - not by much... but I remind them to resize it a little bit... mostly there just 500x100 or something but requirements are requirements... (learnt THAT in school).
So maybe not everyone has read the post? Can you make it more sticky ;)
Quote from rec: We ask that you respect narrowband users and keep your signatures saved in low file-size formats.
By that, do you mean we HAVE to save it in a low format - but honestly people... JPEG files are seriously, 4-8x smaller then a Bitmap, and it's not like you lose much quality... just a little bit of colour.. not even noticeable in my opinion, and im a graphics artist...
ummm, you speak of the regulations on sigs? what about crazy C's? last i check he had 2 (two) images on his sig, and also his main sig has over shot the size? He being a admin should set an example?
He only has one now, but it's still larger then the requirements... sigh... like most things though, it's just not going to be reinforced. Noone cares enough, or knows enough to do it.
Or you could just put the 'little man' in the signature. I do like that black thing too btw... should make something like that for my Hotmail signature :)
LOL why limit ppl to 1 photo i mean i understand if they are like 100 kb each but small 1's like 30 and 30 thats okay cos im on 28.1 sometimes 33 speeds and they load fast for me :D :D
I don't think it should matter much (I'm no admin of course, it depends on them). However, they were they restrictions, but in a case like this, it's low bandwidth and everything, if anything, you could cut the sides off, probbaly bring it to 430 atleast... don't worry about it unless someone says anything to you about it :)
Quote from Amphibious One: By that, do you mean we HAVE to save it in a low format - but honestly people... JPEG files are seriously, 4-8x smaller then a Bitmap, and it's not like you lose much quality... just a little bit of colour.. not even noticeable in my opinion, and im a graphics artist...
JPEG compression is ideal for most web-based purposes, and can be a hell of a lot smaller than 4-8x less than a BMP. It becomes very noticable depending on the level of compression you apply, and is not always relative to the colour, but general picture quality.
For signatures (and a huge chunk of web related needs), you'll find GIF compression is by far a more appropriate format, both for compatibility (colour depth, connection speed and more) as well as functionallity (the ability to create animated images).
Quote from Amphibious One: It was only a temporary replacement... this is better atleast :)
Your standards as a "graphics artist" obviously aren't too high if you're using a GIF Animator application to design and compile your work (such as your signature).
Quote from Amphibious One: If anyone wants to know my level of skill, check out my Avatar! I made it :) Which means, AMD can't really do much about my doing stuff with it! Cos I made it! Heh-heh :) Blar blar blar... I need food...
Err...
Quote from Amphibious One: For people who don't know how to take an image from a site. Well, if you see something you like, RIGHT-click it, and go to properties and go to the "address/URL" and copy that! You might want to make sure you can link directly though - also, make sure to ask if you can use it. Most sites will let you, but there are some stingy ones. But they have their rights.
If anyone finds third-party images they'd like to use as signatures (or avatars etc) and have gained permission to use them, it would be common courtesy to save the image to your HDD and upload it to GU or your own FTP space so you're using your/our bandwidth instead of theirs.