Avatar has black background

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  upcafe · Member · Mar 17, 2007 at 7:48 pm

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  I’m wondering why my avatar image has a black background on WP and not others?

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  judyb12 · Member · Mar 17, 2007 at 9:02 pm

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  The background is actually transparent. Some sites default to using white, while others use black. One way to fix it is to open the avatar picture in a picture editing program (MS-Paint, Gimp, etc.) and fill in the background with whatever color you want.

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  sunburntkamel · Member · Mar 17, 2007 at 9:07 pm

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  when you upload your avatar here, wordpress automattically resizes it. when it does so, it loses any transparency. you’ll have to do as judy says, and add a white background to your avatar.

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  upcafe · Member · Mar 18, 2007 at 5:23 am

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  Thanks so much for your help. I’ll try it.

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  drmike · Member · Mar 18, 2007 at 4:28 pm

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  Something in the back of my mind says that *.jpgs can’t have transparencies. Yes?

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  sunburntkamel · Member · Mar 18, 2007 at 5:07 pm

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  even if wordpress.com were saving them out as *.png’s or *.gif’s, i’ve never seen a GD script that could maintain transparency.

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  drmike · Member · Mar 18, 2007 at 5:09 pm

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  *shrug* Never noticed that about GD. Thanks for the info.