Frustrated

[aidensmomma2000]

Ok, I can't seem to get my avatar to the right size without it being insanely small.

I used photoshop, made sure it was under 100 pixels wide and saved it as a jpeg copy.

How do I get it under 10kb? Its so grainy its ridiculous.

[darkdep]

Funny, I was just doing a new avatar tonight too

I know what you mean...I wish I could figure out for sure why one 100x100 jpg was under 10k and another is way over...

[pegasus]

You may have too many colors. Convert your jpeg to gif (256 colors or less) and see.

[dannypd]

You may have too many colors. Convert your jpeg to gif (256 colors or less) and see.

I doubt it, maybe just up the compression on the jpeg filter between the values of 25-50.  Photoshop defaults 80+.

[dannypd]

...heck, open the file up in MSPAINT  (startmenu->run), and save-as the image.  It'll automatically shrink it down, even if you do nothing!

[Julie]

Nice avatar - who's the artist, it's very adorable.  :wink:

Julie

[pegasus]

aidensmomma2000
That's a nice one alright. There's more than fish in our life!  

[aidensmomma2000]

go to:

http://explodingdog.com

you wont like all of them, but some are sweet.  

[gkilla]

If you are using photoshop. Go to save for web and that will reduce picture size by 70% while keeping picture intact.

[luvfishies]

Another handy tool is a Powertoy for resizing images, called Image Resizer and found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

[Mettle]

...heck, open the file up in MSPAINT  (startmenu->run), and save-as the image.  It'll automatically shrink it down, even if you do nothing!

This worked great for me!