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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:09 am
by Anonymous
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?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:22 am
by Agent
I'm having the same problem. I can't get an image under 8kb no matter how small I make it.
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:29 am
by Loren
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!
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:56 am
by Agent
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.
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:01 pm
by Loren
Email me your original image and I'll play with it.