Icons

[robert_jones]

Why can't I upload icons to this thing?

ETA: Because, "The userpic factory is currently not working. This means that if you upload an icon that doesn't meet our technical guidelines (up to 100x100 pixels, 40kb or smaller) you will receive an error message, rather than being asked to resize your icon."

So how do I make an icon which meets their technical guidelines?

Comments

[hairyears]

I have no idea - I've only explored Dreamwidth by 'phone so far. However, the 'Import Journal' tool (somewhere under FAQ, or just search using 'Import') allows you to import icons from your existing LiveJournal.

[emperor]

I found DW couldn't extract userpics when given their LJ URLS, so I downloaded my userpic to my computer, and then uploaded it as a file rather than a URL.

[robert_jones]

I'm not sure I want Dreamwidth to know my LiveJournal password.

[robert_jones]

I was thinking of using a different userpic for Dreamwidth than for LiveJournal. As I say in the edit above, it appears that this is a known bug, and I'll just have to wait for it to be fixed.

[kerrypolka]

What sort of image-editing software do you have?

[robert_jones]

idk! I think I'd rather wait until Dreamwidth can do it for me rather than faff around trying to master basic picture editing skills.

[kerrypolka]

Well, how had you been making icons before? What do you have on your computer?

[robert_jones]

Nick takes pictures of me and puts them on his web-site. I right-click on the picture I want and select "save as" and save the file on my computer. Then I go into "upload icons" on LJ, and point it at the file I saved. Then LJ shows me the picture and asks which part I want to be the icon. So I draw a box around my head and LJ makes it into an icon.

Dreamwidth purports to do the same thing, but it's not working right now.

I've got Vista and MS Office on my computer, but I refer you to my earlier answer.

BTW, I quite like the fact that I can reply to your comment right here in Gmail. I less like the fact that Dreamwidth insists on putting a copy in my Dreamwidth mail-box, so I have to read the comments twice.

[kerrypolka]

Ah, I see.

I'm fairly certain you can turn that off? Also, you can reply to comments via email on LJ.

[robert_jones]

Further investigation suggests that Dreamwidth is duplicating LJ's behaviour in both respects. I've always had plaintext notifications from LJ, because I like to see people's HTML, but I've switched it to HTML notifications now, which should enable inline replies. Also, I never even realised I had an LJ mail-box, but I do and it gets all the comment notifications. There's no way on either site of getting external email notifications without also getting internal notifications, which seems like a lacuna.

(I've disabled email notifications for people adding me on Dreamwidth, because they were cluttering up my inbox, but I still want to be notified, so it would be nice to use my Dreamwidth mail-box for such things without also having to reread comments I'd already seen. But this is getting boring, and I really should do some work.)

[pseudomonas]

One possibility is to change your LJ password, import, then change it again.