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Postby Mitchell on Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:45 pm

I am trying to crop a picture to make an avatar and am having trouble getting it below 6kB.
I have gone into image size, reduced the height and width to 40 pixels, then reduced the ppi to 40, and the picture is still 56kB...
Do you know what I am doing wrong? Thanks.
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Postby Nnnnsic on Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:46 pm

Are you using Photoshop?

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Postby Mitchell on Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:56 pm

Yes photoshop - and that did the trick... Thanks Nnnnsic.
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Postby Geoff on Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:36 pm

That's not you is it Mitchell??? :)
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Postby Mitchell on Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:44 pm

Unfortunately not. I think it's a pretty fair bet that I will never captain my country nor score over 10,000 test runs with an average over 50...
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Postby Matt. K on Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:52 pm

I had the same problem. Save it as a Gif (or is it Giff)? file.
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Postby Mitchell on Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:59 pm

In the end I don't think my problem was the file type- I was using the wrong save option. As Nnnnsic suggested, once I used the "Save for web" option, I could save it as a jpeg and the size was fine...
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