Avatar Image Size Recommendation
By Daniel Pierce on Tuesday, 01 April 2014
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Forum,

EasySocial, EasyBlog and EasyDiscuss use Avatar images in numerous location, but I have not found a definition of what size image is recommended and if there is a preferred image format?
Size???
50 x 50 px
100 x 100 px
200 x 200 px
300 x 300 px
Format???
JPEG
PNG
BMP
TIFF
Do they need to always be exactly square??

Cannot find the definition anywhere in the documentation and wanted to ask before I created a number that are the wrong format. A simple issue, but can create a lot of work if the are not correct.
What have you found to be the best option?

Dan
A .jpg is standard format for an image which is perfectly fine for using as a profile picture. As for sizing, I'm not too familiar with how ES is centralized with it's other products.
Josh Lewis
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Tuesday, 01 April 2014 06:58
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Hello Daniel,

There's no restriction as to whether the avatar should be jpeg or png, it really depends on you. As for the sizing of the avatar, it depends on the theme actually. We don't use a fix width / height throughout the extension because certain areas might use a different avatar size. For instance, it makes perfect sense to use 160x160 on EasySocial profile but it doesn't make sense to use 160x160 on a blog listing. However, avatars should be square
Mark
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Tuesday, 01 April 2014 13:38
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SO,

Follow up. So really to determine the correct size of the Avatars, you need to look at the theme that is being used by the extension.

Is it safe to say that if you define the Avatar to be 160 x 160 for EasySocial, the avatar will be imported into EasyBlog and re-sized to work with the theme that has been selected?
OR do you need to create separate Avatars for each of the extensions??????

What has worked for others?
Thanks
Dan
Daniel Pierce
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Wednesday, 02 April 2014 00:07
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Hello Dan,

When we resize avatars, we don't physically resize them. We only play around with css to alter the dimensions. As long as the source is square, it will be resized in other extensions accordingly and it would display fine as long as it doesn't upscale. Say if the source is 160px * 160px, displaying it at anything lower than 160px * 160px is fine but not 320px * 320px.
Mark
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Wednesday, 02 April 2014 00:53
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