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I am on the hunt for a good picture of a clone commando. All of the of the ones at the game website are all of the squad. I need one of just a commando. I plan to use it as my avatar. The one who discovers the pick I choose will be credited. (in my sig, where else?)

http://www.geocities.com/ksw_img2/img_k ... _img01.jpg

http://www.geocities.jp/oek2004/clone_commando.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/ksw_img2/img_d ... _img01.jpg

Of all of those, the pencil one I like the best, but I've got to run, football game and I play at halftime.

Dude, we have an avatar gallery here with two great clonetrooper avatars. Just go into your profile, click "Show Gallery", select "SW-Other" and scroll down.

I still think the clonetrooper pic I shrunk for my "Grand Army of the Republic" sig image is the coolest.

It's yours if you want it.

Darth Wong wrote:I still think the clonetrooper pic I shrunk for my "Grand Army of the Republic" sig image is the coolest.

I think he wants clone commandos specifically, though the 501st running is pretty badass.

Alan Bolte wrote:Snip Image

Taking Alan Bolte's excellent avatar work and making it smaller size wise to fit under the 6Kb file size limit.

Credit goes to Alan Bolte, I really like that sketch. Where did you get it?

Hasbro has a nice picture of their upcoming Clone Commando "Scorch" action figure on their Star Wars website. I can't seem to find it at the moment, but no doubt the hi-res picture can be cropped into a good avatar.

Glimmervoid wrote: http://www.geocities.com/ksw_img2/img_d ... _img01.jpg

Wallpapered. That is so cool.

Any advice on how to ge the picture down to size?

Comando293 wrote:Any advice on how to ge the picture down to size?

Use an image editor, there's a list up in the stickies of this forum. Either resize your picture down to size, or select the area you want and crop away, or both (probably advisable to preserve details). For somethin' fancy like Alan Bolte pulled, you'll probably have to use a more powerful image editor along the lines of Photoshop.

Comando293 wrote:Any advice on how to ge the picture down to size?

Use Irfanview. That is how I was able to get Alan's avatar from 9Kb to under 4Kb.

http://www.irfanview.com/

There, found the picture.

Tinkered around to see if I get the size under 6kb while preserving the 8bit transparency.

http://home.earthlink.net/~cyborgstan/i ... trans).png
5592 bytes, 16 colors + 8bit Trans, PNG

EDIT : Come to think of it, there seems to be some artifacts in there I may need to fix.

EDITx2 : Fixed, I think. This version should have 16 colors as well. Unless I messed something else up, which is entirely possible in my current state. In any case, the old version is now http://home.earthlink.net/~cyborgstan/i ... rans2).png

Cyborg Stan wrote:Tinkered around to see if I get the size under 6kb while preserving the 8bit transparency.
<Snip Image>
6041 bytes, 13 colors, 8bit-alpha channel PNG

That should work; I just tested it by uploading it to SDN and the server accepted the change. Keeping the 8 bits makes it more challenging; I punted on that. Nicely done.

Huh, yeah, how'd those artifacts get in there? I guess I'm just blind.

It works, Huzzah!!! Thanks Alan. *Credits in sig*

Don't forget Glimmervoid found the pic in the first place.

Just noticed that myself. *credits in sig again*