Post by inuzuka on Jul 28, 2014 2:03:39 GMT
obviously it is not essentially for your default picture to perfectly fit in the little box thing but if youd like it to i am going to write you up a handy little guide so that you can, brace yourselves, i only vaguely know what i am doing here
the dimensions you need to fit the thingy are
220x350
amazing, we now have our starting info
i am going to ask chloe if there is a way to do this on paint
ok there is but it seems kinda complicated SO im going to start with gimp because its easier so lets open up gimp
gimp--as a side note, gimp is free to download and very useful but tragically it is very ugly
anyway here we go
1. open ur picture
were doing so good
2. lets get the right tool
grab this fucker, the rectangle select tool, and then tick the box that says FIXED
from the start i believe itll put you at 1:1, which makes perfect squares, which is cool and useful for icons and 100x100 things but thats not what were doing here
so youre gonna hop in there and change it to 220:350 you dig?
3. cropping the piccy
i think we all know how to crop but my mom doesnt and she makes me do it for her daily so well just cover all our bases
grab your newly fixed rectangle select and drag it over the portion of the picture that you want as your default picture
like mine as teri in it and fuck that noise karls the fucking star of this show
anyway youll notice now when you drag the select, it stays in a set dimension shape thing so you cant fuck up the dimensions
and then you just click IMAGE, CROP TO SELECTION and bam
look at that
fucking immaculate
but were not done yet! you might have the right ASPECT RATIO but tragically we still do not have the right dimensions. or something. the point is we still have to SCALE IT
4. are we on 4? i think so. 4. scaling the image
right above cropping was scaling, which i am not going to re-screenshot but i will highlight it in red
so when you hit that, youll see image size, width, height, you know the drill. those numbers are the size now obviously and you know what to do here
we have to go back to the magic numbers
once you fill in 220, if you press tab the image should instantly know the next number for height is going to be 350 but if not
then just press scale!
you shouldnt see a huge change--your image might get a bit bigger or smaller but it doesnt matter, the point is it will now fit where it needs to fit
ok and the funny thing about gimp is you cant save, you instead have to export
YAY WERE ALMOST DONE
5. proboards doesnt want to make life easy for u
ALLEGEDLY proboards will resize your perfect sized image if you upload it directly to proboards which is both rude and frustrating for all involved
so what were going to do is upload your perfectly sized image is upload it on an image storing site
i used sta.sh because im sta.shs bitch, that website owns my soul
chloe used imgur, i assume websites like photobucket, dropbox, etc. would all work fine as well
once theyre uploaded there, just copy the image url and paste it into the proboards upload/linked picture!
AND THEN
AT LONG LAST
u have ur perfect picture
i am so proud of all of you
amazing, we now have our starting info
i am going to ask chloe if there is a way to do this on paint
ok there is but it seems kinda complicated SO im going to start with gimp because its easier so lets open up gimp
gimp--as a side note, gimp is free to download and very useful but tragically it is very ugly
anyway here we go
1. open ur picture
were doing so good
2. lets get the right tool
grab this fucker, the rectangle select tool, and then tick the box that says FIXED
from the start i believe itll put you at 1:1, which makes perfect squares, which is cool and useful for icons and 100x100 things but thats not what were doing here
so youre gonna hop in there and change it to 220:350 you dig?
3. cropping the piccy
i think we all know how to crop but my mom doesnt and she makes me do it for her daily so well just cover all our bases
grab your newly fixed rectangle select and drag it over the portion of the picture that you want as your default picture
like mine as teri in it and fuck that noise karls the fucking star of this show
anyway youll notice now when you drag the select, it stays in a set dimension shape thing so you cant fuck up the dimensions
and then you just click IMAGE, CROP TO SELECTION and bam
look at that
fucking immaculate
but were not done yet! you might have the right ASPECT RATIO but tragically we still do not have the right dimensions. or something. the point is we still have to SCALE IT
4. are we on 4? i think so. 4. scaling the image
right above cropping was scaling, which i am not going to re-screenshot but i will highlight it in red
so when you hit that, youll see image size, width, height, you know the drill. those numbers are the size now obviously and you know what to do here
we have to go back to the magic numbers
once you fill in 220, if you press tab the image should instantly know the next number for height is going to be 350 but if not
then just press scale!
you shouldnt see a huge change--your image might get a bit bigger or smaller but it doesnt matter, the point is it will now fit where it needs to fit
ok and the funny thing about gimp is you cant save, you instead have to export
YAY WERE ALMOST DONE
5. proboards doesnt want to make life easy for u
ALLEGEDLY proboards will resize your perfect sized image if you upload it directly to proboards which is both rude and frustrating for all involved
so what were going to do is upload your perfectly sized image is upload it on an image storing site
i used sta.sh because im sta.shs bitch, that website owns my soul
chloe used imgur, i assume websites like photobucket, dropbox, etc. would all work fine as well
once theyre uploaded there, just copy the image url and paste it into the proboards upload/linked picture!
AND THEN
AT LONG LAST
u have ur perfect picture
i am so proud of all of you