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Jetpilot
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 09:36
Trying to create an avatar for myself. I've resized it to be 73 x 80 pixels. I've saved it in CS under the "0" level for .jpg quality and the darn thing is still 15.2 kb.

How can I make the file size smaller without sacraficing the actual size of the avatar? This is the MOST restrictive avi size I've ever seen for a vbulletin site!
Jetpilot
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 10:00
Well... kinda figured it out. Used CS to "Save for web". It converted it to a 256 color .gif that is only 5k large. It works, but it kinda loses that blue POP from the original picture. Any other ideas?
Belmondo
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 10:04
Just a guess. You might try cranking up the saturation in the blue channel in the original image and then save it as before. (Hopefully you can tell I don't really know the answer and am only guessing.:o)
Scottes
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 11:03
Image... Convert to Profile... sRGB.
Then Save For Web as JPG.
Jetpilot
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 11:39
Thanks Scottes!
drisley
9th of March 2005 (Wed), 18:02
Yup, when you use the regular "Save As" command for a Jpg, photoshop puts a bunch of other info in the jpg file (like ICC profile) that causes the file size to balloon.
Jemmind
9th of March 2005 (Wed), 18:56
Does anyone know if there is a save for web command in Paint Shop Pro? I cannot find it.
Thanks,
Julie
Scottes
9th of March 2005 (Wed), 19:00
Jemmind, I just created a tutorial for creating an Avatar in both PS and PSP. It covers the PSP version of Save For Web.

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