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Postby Anonymous » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:09 am

I am new here and trying to upload a avatar to my profile. Everything I try to upload is larger than 6kb. In fact I can't find anything smaller than 10kb and can not shrink the image I want to put up. Any way around this?
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Postby Agent » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:22 am

I'm having the same problem. I can't get an image under 8kb no matter how small I make it.
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Postby Loren » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:29 am

Try changing the color depth to something really low and change the JPG compression/quality settings.

Sometimes for an avatar-sized image, saving as a GIF yeilds a slightly smaller image.

If the image has a detailed, but irrelevant background, you can cover it with a solid color, that will reduce the amount of information in the picture and make the file smaller.

It can be done!
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Postby Agent » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:56 am

is there any way to allow it to be remotely hosted? I shrunk my image down to 80x40 and did the lowest quality, and I'm still at 6.7kb.
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Postby Loren » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:01 pm

Email me your original image and I'll play with it.
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