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The case of the shrinking photo

Postby petermmc on Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:08 pm

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.

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Postby PiroStitch on Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:14 pm

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.
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Postby LOZ on Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:56 pm

petermmc Try INFRANVIEW this free program is very helpfull for resizing.
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Postby johndec on Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:04 am

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

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.
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Postby spartikus on Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:08 am

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!
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Postby Nnnnsic on Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:31 am

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.
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Postby petermmc on Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:38 pm

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.

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Postby Nnnnsic on Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:52 pm

Actually, it'll occur on every post you've already made... not just the next one you make. :)
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Postby petermmc on Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:06 pm

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.

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Postby PiroStitch on Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:23 pm

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