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Postby Straylight » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:39 pm

This is my shameless plug of a little tool that I've just finished making. It is designed to let you make forum/message board avatars/banners without leaving your browser, you can find existing images on Google automatically or upload your own pic, then crop, resize, add text, add borders from a selection and download the result in 3 different formats (JPEG/GIF/PNG).

Let me know what you think, oh and please tell your friends if you like it. :)

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Postby Vega » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:58 am

I really like this and it worked really good. It was really easy to use. Thanks!
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Postby shade of dae » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:19 pm

I just made my new avatar using this program. It worked very well, was easy to navigate, and I like the results. Thank you.
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Postby Straylight » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:05 pm

Thanks for the feedback! :) glad it worked nicely for you guys.
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Postby GeneD » Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:22 am

This is great, I love it. Thanks a lot. One thing I'd like to see is a way to rotate the image, but don't know if it would be possible. :)
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Postby Straylight » Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:14 pm

GeneD (post: 1403112) wrote:This is great, I love it. Thanks a lot. One thing I'd like to see is a way to rotate the image, but don't know if it would be possible. :)


It's possible but difficult. I might add it later if the site gets more traffic :)
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Postby SailorDove » Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:22 pm

Really like your site! I've already bookmarked it. Also having fun making some avatars.

Is it possible to add circle &/or round borders someday?
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Postby goldenspines » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:04 pm

That is a pretty spiffy generator; very quick and easy too. I do like the fact that you can search for, crop, and resize your image all in one place. And the boarders and text make it look clean cut.
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Postby Mithrandir » Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:31 pm

Straylight (post: 1403219) wrote:It's possible but difficult.


*whispers something about using of 2 dimensional array*

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Postby Kaligraphic » Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:20 am

Well, it's slick and convenient, so I'll say thumbs up. I can suggest two fillips, though - first, the ability to retrieve a source image by url, instead of limiting it to Googe image search results or local files, and the second would be the capability to flip images - most relevantly, horizontally.

Other than that, it's pretty convenient for quickly converting an image into an avatar-ready format.
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Postby Straylight » Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:06 pm

Kaligraphic (post: 1403400) wrote:Well, it's slick and convenient, so I'll say thumbs up. I can suggest two fillips, though - first, the ability to retrieve a source image by url, instead of limiting it to Googe image search results or local files, and the second would be the capability to flip images - most relevantly, horizontally.

Other than that, it's pretty convenient for quickly converting an image into an avatar-ready format.


Thanks for the feedback - both of those things are relatively easy to add, so I'll probably put them in once the site gets popular :)
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Postby Straylight » Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:08 pm

SailorDove (post: 1403237) wrote:Really like your site! I've already bookmarked it. Also having fun making some avatars.

Is it possible to add circle &/or round borders someday?


This is really easy to do and I'll probably put it in at some point, although they won't be antialiased round corners as that would require rewriting a bunch of code :P
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Postby FllMtl Novelist » Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:16 pm

I love this thing. I made my new avatar with it. It was very easy for me. Thumbs up!
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Postby Atria35 » Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:27 pm

This is awesome! I lurves it so much! XD The only problem I'm having is when I try to give my sig an ' it turns into a \' , and I know that's not right! And there's no way to get rid of the thing w/ out getting rid of the apostrophe :(
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Postby Straylight » Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:05 pm

Thanks for the comments. Atria35, I'm guessing the "\'" business is probably something to do with your signature getting escaped/sanitised a bit wrong - not sure why though.
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Postby Mithrandir » Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:50 pm

Straylight (post: 1404734) wrote:Thanks for the comments. Atria35, I'm guessing the "\'" business is probably something to do with your signature getting escaped/sanitised a bit wrong - not sure why though.


PHP loves to do this. When you read the result of the post, try converting \' to the appropriate &#xxx; format. I think it's 039 you'll want for the ascii apostrophe.
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Postby Alcuinus » Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:46 pm

[quote="Mithrandir (post: 1404783)"]PHP loves to do this. When you read the result of the post, try converting \' to the appropriate &#xxx]

See here [edit]and here[/edit].

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Dude! that is rock'n awesome! I love this app!
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Postby Tsukuyomi » Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:47 pm

How did I ever miss this thread O.O?

This is pretty cool 8D

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Postby Atria35 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:32 pm

Thanks for the help, guys! I'll get right on fixing that!
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Postby steenajack » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:06 pm

I've recently made some avatars using this. :3! Thanks for linking us to your site dude, it's awesome!

Oh and here are some avies I made:
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Postby Wikiwalker » Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:02 pm

This is great I made myself a new avatar. it's over there <<< XD
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Postby MomentOfInertia » Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:14 pm

Awesome!

Can you put in a way to add multiple lines if text?
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Postby Furen » Sat Aug 07, 2010 1:39 am

Very helpful and convenient
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Postby Straylight » Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:38 am

MomentOfInertia (post: 1411780) wrote:Awesome!

Can you put in a way to add multiple lines if text?


This is a definite no brainer and very easy to add. Once the traffic to the site has reached a certain point (soon) I will add this feature in. :)
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Postby Blacklight » Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:21 pm

I love this. I just made an avatar with it, though it may be a while before I start using it. I really like the result and will be using this again sometime.
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