use your own avatar

[original mister e]

ok, i have slaved over my painting program(i use windows, not sure what program it is...), to produce an amazing avatar, which is exactly 64 pixels by 64 pixels. i go into browse on the avatar selection page, hit my creation, and click"save changes".
it says this is not a valid image file.

i am left with two questions:
one:why cant i use it?
and two:what can i use?
if you could awnser these, that would be great
if i could figure out how to post the image, id show you, but the abbreviations confuse me...

and how do i turn it from a bmp to a jpg, anyways?

[Delma Harrence]

Post the pic and ill help u with it

[Garfieldo]

You need to go to "Save as" in paint, and choose either jpg or gif. Those are the only two file types I know of that work.

[Maniac.]

it's most likely a big file (64.0 KB+). if you make it on paint and just save it, it would save it as a .bmp.
.bmp files are particarly big. like garfieldo said, make it into a .gif or a .jpeg, but if you save it like that on paint, the quality will become absolutely horrible.
>_>
if you want, i can help you save it as a jpg on photoshop so its quality isn't messed but its size is still reasonable.

[Sha742]

It happened to me too. What program?

[original mister e]

wait... i tried putting it in photoshop, then uploading, but it didn't seem to work.
any ideas?
oh... wait again... i think i finally understand all of this. too bad i was supposed to understand about a month ago...

[MNK]

Well, most likely it's wrong size, or wrong format.
If you need it in the right format here's what to click: Open(Open your avatar image.) » Save as » Scroll down the format chooser and choose either ".gif" or ".jpg".
Hope you get your avatar to work.

-MNK

[original mister e]

woo! it worked! thanks for the help, everybody.