Please be aware of the following policy | NOTE avatars may be renamed to indicate transparency. |
This avatar library accepts files in GIF format. File names up to 32 lowercase alphanumeric characters. First letter of the filename must be alphabetic. The allowed characters are a to z, 0 to 9, _ and .gif File sizes up to 8KB (8192 bytes) are allowed. Avatar dimensions of 32 w x 32 h are recommended Avatars larger than 64 w x 48 h will be discarded. Animated GIFs may be subject to reconversion. |
Some avatars get renamed when they are added to the avatar database to indicate that they have transparent backgrounds.
This allows them to be displayed attractively on white chat screens as well as non-white chat screens. For example: If your avatar was named 'bluemoon.gif' the avatar librarian may have added it to the avatar library as 'bluemoon_t' You do not need to add the _t to the avatar name yourself, as the librarian will do this. |
This sample image shows a transparent avatar on the top, and a non transparent avatar on the bottom. The one on the top is named tux_t.gif and has a white background and a white first pixel, it becomes transparent. The one on the bottom is named tux.gif and is the exact same image as the one on top, except it doesn't have the _t as part of the filename. | |
If your avatar is not accepted, please don't take it personally.
We generally do not accept:
Images that are very similar to another existing image,
Animated gifs that start with an uninteresting first frame,
Images that are really smileys,
Pictures of a pet animal,
Boobs,
URLs,
Images of poor visual quality; fuzzy or illegible. If you attempt to force avas to be at the beginning or end of the list, such as by prefixing them with 000 or a_ will probably result in them being deleted immediately. |