Help needed with Avatar

[Andy H]

Morning guys.

I know it must be boring, but I have tried, honest! Could some kind soul possibly turn these two pics into an avatar acceptable size for me?
I would be ever so grateful.

Cheers

Andy

[Carlton-Browne]

How about this? Haven't tested them though.

[Andy H]

Cheers for that ,it seems to be the right size but it´s still over 12kb, I think it needs to be 6kb at most.

[Blapto]

Maximum dimensions; width: 120 pixels, height: 80 pixels, file size: 6kB.

http://www.martinleephotography.com/dum ... 790520.jpg

http://www.martinleephotography.com/dum ... 790534.jpg

Please don't hotlink these. If you're using them on tz-uk as your avatar then it should be fine as tz-uk copies them from the URL to its own database, but rehost them on imageshack/similar if you're going to use them elsewhere.

[Andy H]

Sorted! I thank you sir. :mrgreen:

[andy armitage]

can someone explain to me in very simple terms :D how to put in an avtar i would like my little friend sprout in there how do i do it? thanks

Andy

[Panofsky]

can someone explain to me in very simple terms :D how to put in an avtar i would like my little friend sprout in there how do i do it? thanks

Andy

You named your dog sprout? I like it. Cute beastie.

Dave

[andy armitage]

Thanks Dave he is a dude :D

[Andy H]

can someone explain to me in very simple terms :D how to put in an avtar i would like my little friend sprout in there how do i do it? thanks

Andy

All I know is, you click on User Control Panel, then click on Profile, then on Edit Avatar, then you browse your PC or an external file host and post the picture, if it´s the right size, of course.

[andy armitage]

It just says it's not the right size, so of course that's me stumped then :D

[andy armitage]

I have resized it in photobucket but i still don't know how to do it

[jukeboxs]

I'm following this with interest. I have resized my photo to 120x80, but it's still 33Kb at the lowest quality setting (in Photoshop). So, I'm interested as to how one gets the file size down to 6Kb, without reducing the size of the photo any further.

I though I was quite 'with it' as far as techy stuff goes, obviously I'm nowhere near it! :(

[boddah]

I'm following this with interest. I have resized my photo to 120x80, but it's still 33Kb at the lowest quality setting (in Photoshop). So, I'm interested as to how one gets the file size down to 6Kb, without reducing the size of the photo any further.

I though I was quite 'with it' as far as techy stuff goes, obviously I'm nowhere near it! :(

I think you'd then have to resave it in a lower quality?

[Blapto]

I'm following this with interest. I have resized my photo to 120x80, but it's still 33Kb at the lowest quality setting (in Photoshop). So, I'm interested as to how one gets the file size down to 6Kb, without reducing the size of the photo any further.

I though I was quite 'with it' as far as techy stuff goes, obviously I'm nowhere near it! :(

In Photoshop you should use the normal save feature, save as JPEG, and enable "preview". This gives you an accurate file size as you move the JPEG quality slider between 1 and 100. For the two images above I think the JPEG quality was around 90 which is still relatively high.

There are various alternatives. One is The Gimp, which is free. In that, it's as simple as opening the image, using the Image Resize option to resize the image appropriately then saving the image as a JPEG and enabling preview to work out what quality you need to use to get the right file size.

[jukeboxs]

Thanks guys, I'll give that a go and let you know. Anything to avoid studying!

[andy armitage]

Don't have photoshop i have it on my computer and in photobucket..oh well it was a good idea at the time :D

[ArcofZen]

I need help as I'm starting to get frustrated! :evil:

Now I have no problem resizing images and reducing the file size normally but for some reason today its just not happening! I have tried uploading from my machine as well as from my Fotki account. I've also tried more than one image and even 'borrowing' a users avatar, all to no avail. Any ideas?

This is the image I want to use: (Or rather part of it)



I even tried a tiny (60px X 60px) imagine which had just four unique colours and nada, nothing, zip :?

[ArcofZen]

[adrian]

Hi Andy & Zen

If you have ol' Windows Paint->Open file->Image->Resize/Skew->On resize box (H&V) put 10% instead of 100%->Save As/Save As type 24 bit bitmap.

That should do.

[geordie]

How's that?



URL:
http://gallery.seloc.org/albums/userpic ... OO5-vi.png

[JEL]

Made two for ArcofZen and one cut-out of Sprout for Andy A. :wink:

[ralphy]

bump

:twisted:

I predict a very short life here for you.

R

[geordie]

bump

:twisted:

I predict a very short life here for you.

R

Grr! What are we meant to do with blatent speed posters? Report them?

[ArcofZen]

Made two for ArcoZen and one cut-out of Sprout for Andy A. :wink:

8) Cheers for that, although as I said its something I can do for myself. And weirdly it still would not upload from my laptop, so if if you don't mind I've linked it to your photobucket account! :wink:

As for the 'bump' :roll:

[Chris_in_the_UK]

bump

:twisted:

I predict a very short life here for you.

R

+1

[magirus]

bump

:twisted:

I predict a very short life here for you.

R

+1

All I will say is...... :shock: , bump , and "..."

[jneds]

I used this free web programme with success , no need to install any software etc either. :)

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