Maximum signature dimensions

Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

That's funny, when I originally joined my GITS:SAC 2nd GIG image was 83ish KB in size. When I noticed that I just found the 256 color version and used that instead. Were signatures that were submitted early on not subject to the 50KB size limit.

Your sig should be subject to the "Fucking ugly" limit.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I was hoping for leniency as it's pretty thin and like you say, far too cute for words.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well if someone could crop it for me I'd happily wear a thinner version. As it is it fucks up my photobucket display page anyway. ^_^

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Cheers matey!

I'm running off my photobucket account now so you can delete that if you want. Sass, feel free to direct link to it if you still want to use it.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Sorry Sass, the URL changed slightly...

edit: I was wondering why yours looked longer till I realised you had it centred. My eyes have gone funny now. ^_^

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

I still optomize my images, Blah. But sometimes there isn't much you can do.

Take this beauty here.



It barely fits on imageshack at 1022.5 KB and I pulled a bunch of tricks for that. It's well within sigpic dimensions but I can't make it anywhere near the 50 kb or 70 kb without it looking like shit and/or being really fucking small like my current guu sigpic. And when I do that I lose more detail and you can hardly tell what it comes from.

So while I can do low-frame count gif in the 50 kb limit okay it's one bitch in and a half to do it with larger-frame count gifs. I often have to find opportune gif opportunities where I can clear out most of the gif and have mostly one background and have new frames for just mouth movements. I barely squeezed by with the bears in my sigs by pulling off a lot of tricks and believe me it takes hours of fucking irritating time.

Now let me show you what 200 kb will let you pull off with the gif I showed you above.

at 64 colors and no dither

and even smaller, no dither but 256 colors.

Do you see the small range in those sizes and how much I was able to get out of that while being in just the 200 kb limit? I don't think I'm being unreasonable here. So now reduce that 150 kb more and see that "oh boy it's not fun times at all."

Hell it might be that Adobe ImageReady is a sucky program for making optimized gifs in. If you could recommend one that is better and that'll let me crack in decent size gifs without looking like shit while allowing for the current limits then fine but I'm not seeing it right now.

If keeping the filesize limits at 50k stops people using things like that for a sig, I'm all for it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I think Sigs should be banned or accepted on an individual, stylistic basis. In other words, mods should have the power to remove sigs for being ugly and shit, fuck size restrictions.

FELIPE NO

Well anything huge and badly thought out that does nothing but proclaim the name of some anime or a game should be got rid of. Sega's for example is garish, overly large and basically pointless.

I just don't personally see why people feel the need for huge pictures under their posts. I think it detracts from what a person is actually saying. Sigs are fine when they serve a purpose. If they're funny or tell you something about the user then they're fine but it's really not hard to do that without resorting to some fuck off great day-glo picture of some random anime chick or Cloud wanking over Tifa's tits (Actually, that'd make a pretty good sig).

It's just personal preference, mate and I realise I'm in a huge minority. I just dislike large, obnoxious pictures in signatures.

Basically I consider people with huge crap sigs the same as people with generic anime face avatars and don't bother reading their posts properly.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Acer. If your problem is having spent a load of time on something and wanting to show it off, isn't that what Creators Cafe is for?

I didn't mean to sound like it's only large anime pics I dislike, it's large pics of anything that I find objectionable. Anime avatars I dislike simply because they all look exactly the bloody same to anyone with only a passing interest in the field.

If people want a huge, animated sigpic, why not make a thumbnail version themselves for their sig and link to the bigger picture so anyone who's interested can go look (As I believe Acer has at the moment).

Alternatively, could the option to not display pictures while browsing be made more specific so as not to show sigs or avs or pictures all together? That way the filesize could be increased, the 56k kiddies could turn them off and Acer could put some longer cartoons under each of his posts.

Personally I don't care about the filesize so much as the dimensions (and gaudiness). I browse GFF in a window a third the height of the screen (I don't want people at work reading over my shoulder) and often the entire window is full of someone's sig. I'd also quite like an option to turn off the banner at the top for the same reasons...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

Check your user CP, there's options to turn off signatures, avatars and [img] tags completely.

Were they always there or did you just add them? Either way, hoorah! I now no longer care what anyone has in their sigs.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

Oh hmmm... just noticed that in Lite Set you still have to disable avatars and sigs and whatnot yourself. I thought it came like that before. Perhaps that was only in the old forum. So yeah change that from Lite Set to having them have to turn on and off avatars, sigs, and what not in addition to maybe switching to Lite Set in Shin's case (remember he doesn't want to see the banner either).

I like the avs and [images] though...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.