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Dear learned colleagues

I am trying to get a photo (avatar) with my posts. It says that the pic must be no bigger than 6kb. Is it possible to make any photo that small or should I be trying to crop a little portion of a photo? I have a nice shot that I got down to 17kb's but I could not seem to compress any more.

Oh wise ones what is the secret? I want to use my own photo.

Regards

Peter Mc

Reduce the jpeg quality to maybe around 65%? See how you go there. Anything that small, you won't be able to see the crap bunnies that occurs with low jpeg quality.

petermmc Try INFRANVIEW this free program is very helpfull for resizing.

I didn't have any problems... my avatar started as a 34mb tiff image

From memory, resize to 100 pixels on the longest size and the choose a jpg quality that gets you under 6kb. Took me 5 minutes.

Using PSCS, I just resized to 100 on the longest side, clicked File --> Save for Web, and changed the "Lossy" number until it was under 6k. No worries!

Save For Web in any version of Photoshop (I think it's only in version 5+ or 5.5+) is the way to do it.

A Save As won't reduce quality for the web.

Thank you one and all. The proof will be in the pudding. My next post should contain a small picky. If you don't see one it means I perfected the art so well that my 1 pixel photo is contained in a full stop next to my name.

Regs

Peter Mc

Actually, it'll occur on every post you've already made... not just the next one you make.

Thank you Nnnnsic et al.

Not being a PC guru does have its drawbacks. Even when I shrank it to the max, when I saved it, it would revert back to a biggie. Finally I tricked it some how. I now understand what Image Resize does...I can control it.

Now I have the power and the knowledge... I need new avenues to create stamp sized photos.

Regards

Peter Mc

Whoooo! Good stuff Peter. Don't contract avatar lust and start changing it every hour