Alors!

[Picayune]

... zhe little pictures to zhe side, they are so small! Mimi, I cannot be seen, no matter how I pose to zhe camera!

s'il vous plait, cherie, may we have larger paintings so that other may see us better?

/clasps hands and looks hopeful.

[Conrad Scorch]

Yeah i agree you can barely see me also.

[Cronology]

Heres what you do is get a close up of that pritty face of yours pica! problem solved!

[Girlactic]

*points to the zoom button on the digital camera*

Pica, I showed you like six times where the zoom lens is! Just let me take the picture next time.

Also...pictures come out better during the daytime.

[Conrad Scorch]

Aww fine no full body shots.

[Picayune]

Mais non, ma fille! I know very well where is zhis zoom button.. but cherie, how am I to show my boots in this tiny place?

/thinks this really should be an obvious problem.

i zhink the portraits should be larger.

[Eric Copper]

I can see maybe upping the max height, maybe to 120 pixels. Upping the max width could cause display issues, as the theme probably wasn't made to accomdate larger avatars.

Perhaps the max file size could be nudged up to 8 KB. I don't think it should be too big though, because that makes pages load slower.

But honestly -- why can't you all just use portraits? I'd rather get a good look at your face than a smallish look at your whole body. Unless we make the avatars huge, they won't allow for much detail--and huge means longer page loads. I don't need to load a full body image of Picayune every time she posts something, no matter how pretty she is.

Besides, when people talk, they look at each others' faces. They don't take ten steps back and watch the whole picture.

[Glacial Mass]

Alternatively, Pica, you could just take a picture of your boots.

[Picayune]

... do not zhink I have not thought of zhat already!!

[Mighty Electron]

But honestly -- why can't you all just use portraits? I'd rather get a good look at your face than a smallish look at your whole body. Unless we make the avatars huge, they won't allow for much detail--and huge means longer page loads. I don't need to load a full body image of Picayune every time she posts something, no matter how pretty she is.

I'll agree that Picayune is very pretty and we'd all love to see more full-body shots, but I can see Eric's logic, and totally agree: headshots allow for more detail while keeping the sizes fairly small. There's a place for larger pictures, and the many threads with screenshots on them are proof of that, but I don't think it's necessary to have huge pictures beside everyone's name for every post they make. Even in interviews and such on TV, 95% of the time what you see is just a person's head and chest... that's all people really pay attention to when they talk anyway. (and no, I'm not suggesting that we stare at people's chests, just... well, you know what I mean! lol)

[Alexei Nobokov]

Just how important are boots anyway, really? It is not boots that makes the hero, but the heart.

[Picayune]

Smiles and goes on tiptoe to put her lips next to Alexei's ear.

Cher, you have not seen zhe boots, I take it?

Certainement, zhey are worth it.

[Cronology]

Boot Fetish!

[Cryogene]

*studying the picture* Even if that photo were ten times its current size, all that glow around your feet would kind of obscure your boots anyway, don't you think?

[Picayune]

/laughs

Oh non, ma timide fraise! I should take as many pictures as possible, until I should find zhe one that shows my feet in zhe best light possible. I shall make ma fille do it, since she so kindly offered.

/seems unconcerned that it might take Girlactic all night to find an acceptable shot