Profile Picture Problems

[arthurk]

I'm trying to change the photo in my profile, but something's going wrong. When I upoad a jpg it goes all grainy and it looks as though there's a sort of mesh over it. I tried a gif version, and that was just a mess of colours, and the png version didn't show at all - just one of those white boxes with a red X in the top corner. (That actually happened with one of the jpg's I tried too.)

As my original picture displays OK, I can only think it's something to do with the file size or settings, or some requirement in the board software. Has anyone any idea what might fix it for me? :confused:

Thanks,
Arthur Kennedy

[Ladkyis]

the file size has to be very very small - smaller than the size it says in the instructions

Ann

[arthurk]

The file size is very small (mostly under 10KB) and I've tried various picture sizes, 100 x 100 pixels and many smaller ones.

The png files still don't work, but I tried again with a smaller gif. The top quarter seemed OK, then below that it was just a mosaic of colours.

The existing photo isn't too bad, I suppose - just a bit formal - and I've now got one that's more like I usually look!

Arthur

[arthurk]

Well, I got it to work, but not the way I planned.

After seeing Rod's thread on pictures here (http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7172) I tried uploading the picture to some webspace and putting in the URL. So now you can see what I look like most of the time (if you're prepared to take that risk) ;)

Arthur