Why is the avatar function such a nazi?

[Ghost]

Been trying for about five minutes to change my avatar. Every other forum I've ever used in existence has had a simple bit of software that means you just need to upload a picture, it resizes it to acceptable avatar dimensions and sticks it on. No bother.

Not BCF though, as we all know BCF is special

Is there any chance of getting it made a bit easier? I dont want to spend ages cutting and cropping a picture, messing around on paint, saving it and resaving it and counting pixels. Even using Imageshack to resize it to avatar dimensions for me doesn't work, as they've picked a fairly standard avatar size (100x75) which obviously is far too big for this tiny little forum!

[Ste]

Resizing an image to 80x100 is easy. Making sure the file is less than 10 Kb is also easy.

What's the problem?

[Ghost]

Any pointers? Is it possible with MS Paint as I have no photo editing software on this computer whatsoever.

[Ste]

www.irfanview.com

[Ghost]

Managed to figure it out due to my immense technical genius and computerial skills. Be warned though, a lesser man might not have managed it.

[Carl_steveo]

[Flip]

An easy way to do it is upload a photo/picture to flickr and download the thumbnail size pic. 79x100.