Setting Avatar and Profile picture dimensions

Avatar and profile picture sizes are set by usergroups.


Go into your Admin CP
Scroll down to Usergroups and click
on the right, choose the usergroup, select edit in dropdown menu, and click Go.
scroll down to Picture Uploading Permissions.Here you can enable or disable avatars and profile pics.
Many forums have multiple usergroups and use them as a "reward" for posting. Meaning when you reach a certain number of posts, you're promoted to the next usergroup, and have more permissions. (You'll have to use the promotions feature, but that's another tutorial).

For the purpose of this tutorial, enable or disable the avatar, set the desired image size (some use 80 x 80 which I hate. I usually start with 100 x 100) and file size. Do the same for the profile picture.

If you do have multiple usergroups, go to your next usergroup and follow the instructions above.

It doesn't affect bandwidth??? :)

I hate stingy avatar sizes. Thanks for this.

It doesn't affect bandwidth??? :)picture dimension sizes? Hardly. Might affect your storage a very tiny bit, but not bandwidth.

They are affecting both storage and bandwidth if ya think about it. Albeit, in the case of avatars, only a few bytes. But it adds up.

Typically an avatar of 80x80 will be a few bytes smaller than a 100x100 avatar for the average user that uses typical image resizing tool.

I know you techy graphics gurus have tricks. ;)

Honestly the image size (80x80 or 100x100) doesn't have as much to do with it as how you save it, and compression techniques. For instance, an image saved in JPG format can be saved as is, or exported and compressed, which I choose to do, because you can choose image quality and file size.

Believe it or not, an 80x80 image can be larger (in kb/bytes) than a 100x100 image - all depends on the above. ;)

That's what I meant about you gurus. You know that stuff. Us joe blows are lucky to operate paint. :p