Avatar sizes?

[Allenafaith]

How big are the avatars allowed to be on your site? What do you reccomend is a good size that isn't too big or too small?

 

[Reverie]

170 Width and 250 Height is our max size for avatars. I've noticed, at least in my community many people enjoy avatars that are bigger - which I don't mind as long as it doesn't stretch out the profile box at all. So the max width before the box gets deformed is 170 😀

 

[VirusZero]

I set 120x120 because I feel that's large enough. You can see the avatar, it's a decent size but it doesn't push into the forum space or take up too much room in the postbit. (And I don't have to use hover or other tricks to finagle it in.)

I'm not overly fond of the massive avatars like 200x150 (or whatever) because it makes getting a decent avatar harder. Using automatic resizing doesn't always work. Sometimes autosizing comes out looking like crap. And loads of people either aren't good with graphic programs to edit/create an avatar or they simply don't care.

And I've heard many cases of people being like "Oh, I'll make an avatar for you"... but even then there are still reasons people may not want to do that.
(Maybe they don't like that creator's style? Maybe they don't want to feel indebited to that person? Or, maybe it's just they like whatever they already have?)

Also, I think that huge avatars put too much focus on pretty pictures. (Which is an issue I find more common in roleplay sites. Where there is WAY too much of a focus on hot celebs and shipping them.)

 

[Net-Steals]

I have several forums, so they are all different, but mine are usually from 120 X 120(MKBA for example, to around 160 X 160(Pontiac_Excitement for example). I don't make it smaller than that, for, all my forums uses the PIP(you know, the posting rank) as either 60X60, 80X60, or 70X60 what have you, so it needs to be bigger than that. Most of the sites I went to forbids me to use avys that are particularly larger in file size(this one included) for a fear of slowing down the site loading time, but I don't mine on any of my forums, and I actually encourage them to.

 

[Cierra]

I don't currently remember the exact dimensions of avatars on my forum but basically not too small so that it affects image quality or what you can see and not too big that it enlarges the postbit space or detracts from posts. The first theme my forum was on had circle avatars and they looked cool but cut off a lot of the avatar image space. I've tried more rectangular spacing before too.

 

[Cosmic]

I personally like the size allowance on FP. The size is 150x180, which in my opinion isn't too big and isn't too small. The extra 30 pixels on the better makes "portrait" avatars look a lot better, which is pretty common for an avatar. The square shape of most forum avatars doesn't look as good with pictures of people in my opinion, since people are used to seeing portraits, which are traditionally taller than they are wide. The human head itself is of a similar shape (not entirely round), and it also allows the picture to include the upper chest as well, without too much room being wasted on the sides of the image.

 

[KnownSyntax]

64px x 64px with their avatars cut into circles automatically

 

[Net-Steals]

Well, those are the maximum we are talking about here. It doesn't have to be exactly the requirement. It can be smaller if you worry about quality being shot, as long as it goes OVER the limit...

 

[Thomasss]

200x200 is my usual avatar size, good old ProBoard's habit.

 

[katzer]

150x150 max are what are allowed on most. One of the boards I help out will auto resize on anything loaded to 100x100. There is nothing needed more that 150. It makes a board look cluttered.

 

[robingagewebmaster]

I set 120x120 because I feel that's large enough. You can see the avatar, it's a decent size but it doesn't push into the forum space or take up too much room in the postbit.

 

[Teapot]

I think setting the max to 150x150 is a good idea. It makes the avatar large, but not too large to the point of over-crowding the board and postbit.

 

[Forces of Steel]

300 x 300 = Profile
200 x 200 = Postbit
100 x 100 = Member List

 

[Lucas]

120x120, but viewtopic they are displayed in 90x90 through CSS.

I like to exact dimensions because in my forum have many plugins that display thumbnail of avatars, and with dimensions of 150x230 type is distorted thumbnail. PhpBB does not have a thumbnail cropping system, so ...


Also, I use an avatar editor system: when the user submits a larger image 120x120, the editor helps you frame the image to 120x120 without being distorted.

 

[Zil]

I was using 150x150 for max size but scaled it down to 140x140 because it seemed a little too big.

 

[roycareyou]

about 120x150 pixel

 

[MeganChan]

I keep mine at 100x100. Probably could make it bigger though. *shrug*