Well, looks like signature images is up, upload site included :)

[bimmerd00d]

http://e34.bimmerd00d.com

Please upload your photos to there, but keep them small. No larger than mine. The maximum upload size is 150k. Any inappropriate images will be deleted as soon as i see them, and yes i'll be monitoring. Please rename the image as your username before uploading for management purposes should there be an issue. Hope you guys like it!

[George M]

Thank you for offering this service to the board...very nice jesture and will add a personal touch. How does one make the avatar effective after entering it onto your site? How about adding text as you have?...what is the procedure for this?...do you add the text/car description as part of the uploaded pic?...inserting the pic say into Powerpoint with some text below, then making a jpeg that way?
A brief procedure would help a lot.
Thanks again,
George

[bimmerd00d]

You go into your UserCP at the top, edit signature, and when you upload the image to my server, copy the dfsdfghdslg thing into the signature text window, and then type whatever car info you want. 200 characters is the maximum.

[bahnstormer]

test

[scott540]

Cool, I think I finally got it with the last set of directions. Sorry if I messed anything up trying

[wengenstein]

who0t! :D

[bimmerd00d]

Ed, can we get a sticky on this for all who aren't going to see this tonight?

[Scott E]

Here is my signature pic. I will do a better job with the text later.

[Phil M]

photoshop it, if you can


Thank you for offering this service to the board...very nice jesture and will add a personal touch. How does one make the avatar effective after entering it onto your site? How about adding text as you have?...what is the procedure for this?...do you add the text/car description as part of the uploaded pic?...inserting the pic say into Powerpoint with some text below, then making a jpeg that way?
A brief procedure would help a lot.
Thanks again,
George

[bimmerd00d]

photoshop it, if you can

open that up in MSPaint, and go up to Image, stretch/skew, 50% vertical and horizontal, save it and re-upload ;)

[Phil M]

bah, my screen resolution is really high :p


open that up in MSPaint, and go up to Image, stretch/skew, 50% vertical and horizontal, save it and re-upload ;)

[George M]

Thanks Bimmer00d!!!!

[1992 BMW 535i]

See if this works....

[Bimmer Nut Ed]

I like George's the best so far. Wide, not high, to add little to scrolling. Multi-pics for good detail and variation. Excellent job George. Now I'll have to make a good one too, instead of this test one I've got going on now.

[George M]

Thanks for the compliment Ed! As usual, I agree with you on the size...if fact, feel free to set some sort of guideline as the board head man...I am certainly open. Avatars are nice but if too big will detract from not only the content of each post but be a bit overwhelming visually when opening each thread. Bimmer00d was quite generous with the host size.
Cheers and Thanks to all for this great forum!
P.S. I do hope there is some leniency on allowing Winfred's old avatar :-)

[George M]

FYI for sizing purposes for those about to make their avatars:
Below Pic size =
1.8 in. high X 6.75 wide
23.7 KB
130 X 480 pixels @ 72 DPI= 62.4 KP

[Hector]

my jpg pics are usually several hundred KB? Do you take the pics at very low res? I've tried this before but the pics still come out over 100 KB.


FYI for sizing purposes for those about to make their avatars:
Below Pic size =
1.8 in. high X 6.75 wide
23.7 KB
130 X 480 pixels @ 72 DPI= 62.4 KP

[Bimmer Nut Ed]

Hector, you have to resize the images using a tool like Photoshop or Fireworks, or hundreds of other programs. You can also use .jpg compression when you do the resizing to further reduce how big the file is.

And George, yeah, I agree, but I don't think there's a way to restrict image height. I'd suggest we just harass the individuals like Scott E. with the tall pics! Funny Scott, you set this up, and you're the first to get harassed. ;)

Guideline, please don't make make your sig pics taller than 150 pixels!


my jpg pics are usually several hundred KB? Do you take the pics at very low res? I've tried this before but the pics still come out over 100 KB.

[Elekta]

testing 123 testing testing check check check tap tap tap is this thing on?

[Hector]

I do have Imaging which is where I annodate pics. I can play with this a bit more to find size reduction features. It's funny cause as much as I like trying various software packages, I don't spend that much time looking for bells and whistles in each except for a handful of 'em.

[1992 BMW 535i]

One last try...

[1992 BMW 535i]

Okay I give up. What the heck am I doing wrong?

[wengenstein]

When you posted the message(s) did you remember to check the little "Show your signature" box below the main text? I forgot to do that when I first posted with my sig...

Dennis

[George M]

Hector...I do a lot of jpeg manipulation on my job....send a number of Powerpoint/jpeg design proposals to Japan over night....so I employed a number of steps to get this result. The above Avatar is created with a 2MP Camera taken at max resolution. The pics are then reduced somewhat...to screen size using Irfanview...excellent freeware available on line...I highly recommend you download it.
Then I pulled the three pics into PowerPoint...a business presentation software that allows for nice showy graphics and manipulation of jpegs using its Insert function. I elected to insert the text via PowerPoint as well because it is so flexible to give the overall image I like. Then I do a screen print and recrop which really cuts the size down and save as a jpeg and then import it into Photoshop 7.0 which has the most strength as far as pixel/byte format/size goes.
The three individual jpegs were also adjusted for similar lighting prior to bringing them together using Photoshop. Photoshop's power is amazing.

[rph]

Greetings. I haven't got a real good car pic, so this will have to do for now -- ha ha ha! Note the font color is ready when the right pic comes along. Thanks Sticky.

http://e34.bimmerd00d.com

Please upload your photos to there, but keep them small. No larger than mine. The maximum upload size is 150k. Any inappropriate images will be deleted as soon as i see them, and yes i'll be monitoring. Please rename the image as your username before uploading for management purposes should there be an issue. Hope you guys like it!

[1992 BMW 535i]

Nope, it's on!

[1992 BMW 535i]

George, all knowing, all powerful, I seem to be unable to do this right. Can you help a bros out?

[George M]

some mugs aren't fit for posting...LOL. You guys want to reconsider this Avatar thing?

Marc...did you successfully load your pic onto Bimmer00d's site and then paste it into the signature field?...you can test it by a copy and paste into the normal field to see if the pic loads successfully as a first step.

[bimmerd00d]

George, all knowing, all powerful, I seem to be unable to do this right. Can you help a bros out?
make sure the code you're putting in the body is this, minus the quotes "insertcorrecturltoimagehere"

[1992 BMW 535i]

I be not so smart, heh?

[1992 BMW 535i]

http://e34.bimmerd00d.com/sigs/1992BMW535i.jpg

[1992 BMW 535i]

Shows up as a link....

[Dave M]

I'll find a smaller later and switcharoo

[George M]

Marc....smart has nothing to do with it. I learned most of my jpeg posting stuff from guys on this board some time ago. Every dam nuance has to be right for the thing to post. If it posts as a link...you need to try and copy and paste into the signature box again...with the right brackets and syntax...you'll get it to work. You have to use the [img] language or it won't post...no different than posting a pic on this forum..only you put it in the signature box which automatically is included in your post field.

[bimmerd00d]

I be not so smart, heh?

http://e34.bimmerd00d.com/sigs/1992BMW535i.jpg

[put at the beginning of the URL, and at the end of it]

great looking car!

[billb]

and it may not be a beech...can't remember what the aircraft was...but I do know they are Model A's...mine's in there somewhere.

Bill B.

[Hector]

I'll see what I can do to download Irfanview. The IS department here has all computers monopolized so I may not have the frigging "administrator privileges" or some BS like that to download. Yup, I'm familair with PowerPoint as well. Let me see if I can make any headway on the imaging software I mentioned before. If nada, then I resort to more civilized approaches.



Hector...I do a lot of jpeg manipulation on my job....send a number of Powerpoint/jpeg design proposals to Japan over night....so I employed a number of steps to get this result. The above Avatar is created with a 2MP Camera taken at max resolution. The pics are then reduced somewhat...to screen size using Irfanview...excellent freeware available on line...I highly recommend you download it.
Then I pulled the three pics into PowerPoint...a business presentation software that allows for nice showy graphics and manipulation of jpegs using its Insert function. I elected to insert the text via PowerPoint as well because it is so flexible to give the overall image I like. Then I do a screen print and recrop which really cuts the size down and save as a jpeg and then import it into Photoshop 7.0 which has the most strength as far as pixel/byte format/size goes.
The three individual jpegs were also adjusted for similar lighting prior to bringing them together using Photoshop. Photoshop's power is amazing.

[Hector]

was able to reduce this pic from 340 KB to 27 KB using the Imaging software I mentioned earlier.

[Hector]

had another image I took a while back and was able to reduce from 340 KB down to 33 KB!!!


was able to reduce this pic from 340 KB to 27 KB using the Imaging software I mentioned earlier.

[Hector]

http://e34.bimmerd00d.com/index.php

[bimmerd00d]

http://e34.bimmerd00d.com/index.php


you tried to paste the index.php link to my page, not the actual image URL. :)

[mikey535im]

thought I would give it a try here!
http://www.bimmer.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=313&stc=1

[1992 BMW 535i]

That most definitely is a Beech.

[1992 BMW 535i]

Let's try again

[1992 BMW 535i]

Next time, I'll read the instructions!!!!

[Hector]

How did you do it exactly. Once I've uploaded the picture from bimmerdood's site and picked signatures then what? I'm missing the URL.


Next time, I'll read the instructions!!!!

[henryw525i]

testing

[Bob in San Jose]

Testing

[1992 BMW 535i]

Hector upload the picture, make sure that you save to the signature file then copy [ IMG ]http://e34.bimmerd00d.com/sigs/http://e34.bimmerd00d.com/sigs/FILENAME.JPG[ /IMG ] into your signature and voila! Remove the spaces between the brackets

[paul p (chi-town)]

Geez, what took everyone so long.



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[darron525]

http://e34.bimmerd00d.com

Please upload your photos to there, but keep them small. No larger than mine. The maximum upload size is 150k. Any inappropriate images will be deleted as soon as i see them, and yes i'll be monitoring. Please rename the image as your username before uploading for management purposes should there be an issue. Hope you guys like it!

just testing

[Hector]

This is embarrasingly too friggin easy... Thanks Marc.

Pic of e34hellboy coming soon with a great look...
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http://e34.bimmerd00d.com/sigs/AstnMrt.jpg

[Alan_525i]

mmm, my sig from like 4 diff forums.

[Rusty]

I'll prolly have to change the picture though.

[Luftpost]

Test