Round Avatars

[planedriver]

"On line now" flag appeared on the square avatars as well.[ATTACH=full]45680[/ATTACH]

I thought that meant my account with "Clear Prop" was up to date.

 

We learn something new every day red

 

 

[Admin]

Just been putting the finishing touches to the new look of v6 for the site which will be implemented tomorrow and I tell you looking at the way the colours work I really really really like what round avatars would look like with it...oh well, the users have spoken, don't ever let it be said that I don't listen to the site members but tomorrow you will see what I mean...Bloody hell it looks good

 

 

[Admin]

Now don't you think the round avatars would have looked good on the site now

 

 

[Head in the clouds]

Now don't you think the round avatars would have looked good on the site now

IMHO a round shape is fine but it doesn't lend itself very well to pictures of aeroplanes. For those who perhaps don't fly and have a portrait of themselves, or whatever, round works very well. A few days back I saw FT's avatar in a round border and I thought it suited him very well ;-)

 

However, since aeroplane pictures are usually taken in a three-quarter view, the subject matter, i.e. the plane itself, tends to be a shape which is much wider than its height. Consequently, if you want the largest image of the plane and the least wasted space around the subject, assuming you don't want to crop away a lot of the subject, i.e. the plane's wings and/or tail, then you really need an avatar shape that is wider than its height - it looks like 4:3 or 16:9 would work best.

 

Here are some examples, using the same master image each time and including the most of the subject possible in each case. For the round one it was impossible not to crop some of the subject, i.e. the wings, due to the limitations imposed by the master image. In the examples below the square one appears to give the best picture of the subject but note that it also has lost some of its wings due to the limitations of the height of the master image. The 4:3 probably works best among these images of the same overall width but the 16:9 is the most 'efficient' in terms of utilising most of the space on the image for the subject matter and least on the background.

 

Master image

 

 

Round

 

 

Square

 

 

4:3

 

 

16:9

 

 

EDIT - I've added another 16:9 cropped the same amount as the square and round images for a direct comparison with them of the amount of the subject you get on a wider aspect ratio image -

 

 

 

[Litespeed]

But Alan..................We all Know clipped wing aircraft are faster:ban me please: