The former, I believe.

I believe Ghost asked:

To which the actual answer is, we don't want huge banners ruining the aesthetics we have built up.

Alcar...

So set a 100 x 200 size limit or whatever, it's just the hosting thing I care about.

Signature pictures are hosted on OWF's server regardless of whether you upload them from your computer, or specify a HTTP URI. That is how [SIGPIC] functions.

Alcar...

It's difficult - if not impossible - to impose size limits on images that aren't hosted on our servers.

"Signature images must be *width* by *height* or you'll be infracted" ?

You want us to do our jobs manually?!?!

That's what they do on normal-people forums...

If you think this comment is relevent, you can't have been paying attention to our forums. vBulletin automatically rejects avatars that are outside of the dimension and filesizes limits we've chosen.

If you've chosen them, can't you change them? It's so hard to make your pictures small enough.

Avatars at 12kb will be fine, thanks.

never really had a problem with not being able to use an avatar due to its size.

only time that's ever happened is when i wanted to use a portrait of Bub from Day Of The Dead, but i don't get why, as it's a lot smaller than other pictures i use.

EDIT: ah, it was because it was a PNG. changed it to JPG and it works.

I have never had any problem in the slightest. I just pop it in Picure Manager, crop, shrink, done.

Owf always shrinks my avatar down to the correct dimensions. I like that. A lot. I hate manually recropping.

Thisthisthisthisthat.

I'm fine with any kind of image editing, and JPGs are smaller but the avatars I use almost always contain transparency.

The current one does, as you can see.

And if my image is too big it says IMAGE TOO BIG GO AWAY, although I can't remember the exact words. It doesn't resize it.

It must just be me, my normal avatars on other forums is this size:
http://i27.tinypic.com/24xf1g3.jpg

Don't worry, the Wallace and Gromit forums have a 50 x 50 pixel limit. This is nothing.