Avatars?

Steve Legend

How do you guys manage to make your Avatars less than 10kb? It seems like anything more than 2 pixels on a 80x80 square is larger than 10kb. ha ha, driving me crazy!

geordiefreerider

I know i had that bother when i first registered on here, dunno mate sorry i just kept looking til i found one (think i just googled avatars).

fred1star

Took me ages, as above search google for AVATARS, I found a great site you just put in what size you require, brouse your photo and jobs a gooden.

blu3cat

found a piccie I wanted to use, shrunk it down to the correct size and saved it as a jpg eith high compression turned on.

I think I may have even used mspaint on my pc for all of that as well.

Daz555

Mine is a smidge over 2KB.

The Northern Monkey

whats your picture? I might be able to change it for you

bluechair84

dead easy, get a basic photo editing suite like photo impact 10 - these things always come free with magazines and often with your computer. They might be free to download from the web. Find the resize tool - in photoimpact it's under 'adjust' and it gives you all the options to set the number of pixel parameters, file size etc....

Kiblams

This forum will stretch your picture to fit the size if you use one which is smaller than 80x80. As mine should be this size:



Also, if you have lots of colours remember to save it as a JPEG, and if there are only a few colours (only if there aren't different shades) then a PNG file will be much smaller.

xtreem

When using Macromedia Fireworks it's just dead simple. Too dead. 1000 years dead.

Open you picture, whatever size but bigger than 80x80, and resize it to 80x80.
When saving the picture, go Save as and then in the opened window select jpeg
and go Options. There you'll find a slider so you can tune the quality of the image from 0
to 100. Using that slider you can reduce/increase the size of the picture and you can see
it the results too. Go down the slider, the file size reduces but you don't loose that much
on the quality of the image. Try it...

Who ever wants I can do it for him.

And Kiblams I think you can achieve a better quality to your avatar.

Kiblams

Xtreem wrote:

And Kiblams I think you can achieve a better quality to your avatar.

It is what is known as Pixel Art: A better example of mine;



It is supposed to be pixelated...

fred1star

http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/

Try this really easy

Steve Legend

Thanks for all the info, usually pretty good on Photoshop but was being retarded! Done now though!

toasty

Bah, mine has 2 frames and I'm still only 1/4 of the way to the budget!

cat_with_no_tail

Mine is only 7k. I have others like it if anyone wants one. You can also use the emoticon whojammywatsits from AIM and MSN and the likes

Speckled Pants

Or use photoshop and save as 'web & devices'