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@ Creaky: Thanks for the animated userbar nod. I too liked the idea of being able to use a bunch of userbars, while only taking up the space of a single bar.

With that said I probably wasn't the first to do so, but I'd be more then willing to help assemble animated userbars if needed. When I get the time I'll probably make a few userbars myself, though we've already had so many submissions I don't know what'd they be on. =P

@ wagsadog: Anytime an image is stretched or compressed to a size/shape that differs from it's original attributes, there will almost always be some type of image loss. Especially when the new image size is a totally different proportion ratio. However, certain programs try to minimize the loss of clarity. Photoshop and Paintshop Pro do so, as I've used them, and I'd suppose GIMP would too but I don't really know from experience. You could try resizing each bar before using an animator. I'll post some attempts at minimizing the clarity loss later.

The only true way to keep it perfect is just to keep the image in it's natural attributes. (I just position the shorter userbars to the left in mine.)

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As you can see they're not perfect, but I don't think they're terrible. The Windows XP bar was shrunk down to 300x20 and the AMD User was stretched to 350x19. The main problem is that they're not the same aspect ratio, so we're getting stretching from all different directions. But if you fool around with the resampling settings when you resize the image, you can TRY to make it look a little better. Plus, you can choose which size you want to stick with according to your own liking. Maybe you like how the bars look when stretched to 350x19 vs. the larger one's shrunk to 300x20. Then you can just choose what looks best and use that size. =P

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