How to reduce the size of a file for an avatar?

[Whaler]

How to reduce the size of a file for an avatar? Okay, I've got a great avatar, less than 80 pixels now how do I reduce the size less than it's present file size to 6 kb as required?

[Tom W]

How to reduce the size of a file for an avatar? Okay, I've got a great avatar, less than 80 pixels now how do I reduce the size less than it's present file size to 6 kb as required?

I had to save mine as a GIF file. Much smaller than the JPG equivalent. I hope it works for you.

[CyberDyneSystems]

See if you can reduce the number of colors too... I think gif is automatically 256???

And of course use jpeg compression... what image editor do you use?

[Whaler]

CDS,

Thanx for the reply, not sure what you mean. If you have the time Pm exact instructions. I thought I was pretty computer savy.

Mike

[pradeep1]

I created mine by cropping one of my photos square and resizing to 60X60 pixels using Paint Shop Pro.

[Belmondo]

I made mine by taking a picture of my red 10d (I can't remember if I took the picture with my green 10D or the rainbow-colored G5). I cropped it to 72 X 71 pixels, and saved it as a GIF file. It took me a little time (and some adult supervision) before I figured out that a JPEG file wasn't going to work. :idea: :idea:

Thos. 8) 8)

[EdViesturs]

The newer versions of Photoshop allow you to select the compression quality of the jpeg image, and hence the file size.

You can do this by going: File --> Save for web...

[Whaler]

Guys,

Thank you so much. Reading your replies pointed me in the right direction. I was saving the reduced size as other than JPEG and didn't realize it. Duh :oops:

Mike