Blurry Avatar

I have noticed that my avatar in Windows Live Messenger version 14 is quite
blurry compared to the one displayed on my Windows Live page. Both are of the
same photograph.

Does anyone know how to make Windows Live Messenger display a sharp avatar?

Hi Zian,

You could use some photo manipulation software to scale down your user-tile
yourself to 96x96 for your Messenger main window, as this is the size that is
used. Anything larger is shrunk down to fit. Try to keep your images below
200k to avoid futher compression as well.

Also,
If you are refering to your avatar in the top left corner of
http://profile.live.com/, it is now disjoint from your Messenger user tile
(they are different types of profile images now whereas they used to be the
same in the past) I believe that there is a larger file-size allowed for
this image.

Thanks,
Alex

"Zian" wrote:

> I have noticed that my avatar in Windows Live Messenger version 14 is quite
> blurry compared to the one displayed on my Windows Live page. Both are of the
> same photograph.
>
> Does anyone know how to make Windows Live Messenger display a sharp avatar?