AVATAR SIZING

[scorpio1155]

Help.... Now the world knows for certain that I am a complete moron. I have been trying to take a photo of me and size it at 80px x 80px but no matter what I do for quality, it always stays at 26KB in PS.... How in the world do we get them down to 8K? Thanks!

[Poster Of U]

Please when you find out let me know, I get the same thing.

[DwightMcCann]

Help.... Now the world knows for certain that I am a complete moron. I have been trying to take a photo of me and size it at 80px x 80px but no matter what I do for quality, it always stays at 26KB in PS.... How in the world do we get them down to 8K? Thanks!

Use PhotoImpact instead! :lol: But I think this question belongs over in RAW, Post Processing ... Forum.

[scorpio1155]

I put it here, Dwight, because of the recent discussions about Shavri's avatar. Apparently there are other G & N readers that are also experiencing the same issue.

[DwightMcCann]

I put it here, Dwight, because of the recent discussions about Shavri's avatar. Apparently there are other G & N readers that are also experiencing the same issue.
Yes, yes, but the expertise for answering such questions is over there ... I personally don't care and was just trying to be helpful, although I expect that most folks searching to answer such a question won't look for it with nudes. :lol::lol::lol:

[mgbeach]

have you tried using the save for web and lowering the quality a bit? That strips out the metadata, which is probably what's keeping the size up.

[defordphoto]

Make it a GIF instead of a JPEG.

[Ronald S. Jr.]

Remember to oversharpen once (usually helps) and use save for web.

[tommykjensen]

Use PhotoImpact instead! :lol: But I think this question belongs over in RAW, Post Processing ... Forum.

Nope this is a forum thing so the thread is where it belongs.

This is also here a tutorial on creating avatars can be found.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=61381

[DwightMcCann]

Thanks, tommy, I thought he'd get better answers outside G&N. :-)