Avatars and bytes

ginger_55

I am having trouble with changing avatars. The instructions have not changed, but when I do my photos according to those instructions, I often get "told" that my file was over the "so many" byte limit. I don't know how to set it by bytes.

I have pixels and KBs, and I did set the photo within those limits.

ginger

patch29

If you can link to it here in a post we can take a look at it.

ginger_55

In downloading, to smugmug, I discovered that this was 19,224 bytes. I don't know how to make it smaller. On my image thing, the long side is 80 pixes, and the KBs seemed within the instructions. This is the link to the smugmug gallery I just put it in, last page, last photo. thanks for any help. There were two, same story.



http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/gallery/530498/3/22587393

ginger (I lowered the resolution, I thought that might help, didn't)

winnjewett

Ginger, here is a version of your avatar that meets the requirements:
It is 3671 bytes. To achieve this size, I used photoshop's "save for web" feature.

hth,
Winn

ginger_55

Thanks, Winn, what difference did save for web make?

ginger (I will try it, myself, check it out)

patch29

winnjewett wrote:

I used photoshop's "save for web" feature.

That is usually the easiest way, you can adjust the quality setting to shrink it some more.

Hopefully it will work for you now.

Andy

ginger_55 wrote:

Thanks, Winn, what difference did save for web make?

ginger (I will try it, myself, check it out)

save for web, strips out icc and exif, and compresses the file more. you can choose the level of compression. it's NOT recommended for general photos that you process and share but is useful for avatars, small webpage stuff... like the banner shots we put on dgrin - have to keep 'em lightweight!