Signature files and Animated Gifs

[james_uk@ebay.com]

Good Morning,

I am afraid to say that we have arrived at a post I had hoped I would not have to make 😞 I will be posting this message across most of the main boards throughout the day.

The size of Signature Files in posts is starting to get a little too out of hand. Lately the size has been creeping up and in some cases there are two or three different things in sig files pushing out the size of posts. In addition the use of animated gifs has been creeping back in along with ad's for sales and attempts to hide links in text.

For the most part I've tried to be as flexible as possible, overlooking the ones that are a little bigger than the recommendations. When they have been too large I've contacted members directly to ask them to resize them, and members have been happy to comply. This is no longer an option as it is taking up too much time due to the number of people needing to be contacted.

Were these reported Liveworld will act on them, and I don't want to see anyone getting a warning over something easily avoided.

At this point I would like to remind everyone about the signature guidelines, which you can find here: http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=400055459&tstart=0

I hope we can work within these guidelines and bring the threads back to a point where posts are easy to read without too much scrolling.

I appreciate your help on this.

James

--
I Pink therefore I am B-)

[blue*smartie]

Yes you can do it that way 😄

When you have it open

Go to File - Save As
And call it practicecat or similar
Press Save

That way you are not changing the original file

[catsplace09]

Done that.

It is saved back to the pictures folder.

Is that right?

[blue*smartie]

The one with the new filename? If so that is correct

[catsplace09]

Yes:

Now Called Sensi Bucket, just to remind me of Photobucket

[blue*smartie]

ok you should have the picture on screen

Go to Image - Resize/Skew

Change the Horizontal and Vertical boxes to 50% and click OK

That should shrink the picture

Keep doing this - until you get to the size you want (you can change to 75% etc if you dont want the image to go too small)

[catsplace09]

Done that. Will leave at 50% to practice on.

[blue*smartie]

If you are happy with the size

Press File Save

Then you can go to your photobucket account and upload as normal. And that image will definately be smaller when you post 😄

I think you said up there ^^ that you wanted to make your own sig. If so I would suggest that you experiment with some of the things you can do.

To make the canvas (which is the area in which ur pic is in) bigger move the cursor to the bottom right corner of the pic. It should change to a double headed arrow. When you have got that, click and drag to make it bigger.

You will notice that the actual image doesnt get bigger - only the canvas/working area.

Have a play with all the icons and see what happens, its a good method to learn some of the basics as many photo editing suites use the same or similar icons

Good luck :-D

[catsplace09]

Thank you so very, very, much.

Never thought I would get so much help on here.:-x


Thanks again:-x

[blue*smartie]

Your welcome :-D

[catsplace09]

Still testing/practice.

[blue*smartie]

Not bad at all 😄

Having fun :^O

[right-then-petal]

[catsplace09]

!!!Hooray!!!

Not too bad.


could'nt have got this far without you blue*smartie

Nightie night.

[blue*smartie]

Night Cats

*waves to Petal*

[right-then-petal]

wave wave you done a good job there Smartie

[catsplace09]

Night, Night *Petal*:-x

[right-then-petal]

goodnight Cat's

[catsplace09]

TestingX-(

[catsplace09]

Test2

[shouldercharge-2008]

Just testing,