How do you make your Avatar images so small?

Lucky HackLucky Hack Registered Users Posts: 594 Major grins
edited March 1, 2005 in SmugMug Support
Despite the fact that I sit at a computer all day, I seem to be unable to create an 80 by 80 avatar image that is less that 50,000 bytes. The limit is 20,000 and everybody else seems to have figured it out... what am I missing????
Chance favors the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur

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  • SeymoreSeymore Banned Posts: 1,539 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    File compression. What SW are you working with?
  • Lucky HackLucky Hack Registered Users Posts: 594 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    Photoshop... Progressive jpeg. (mac) what about the specifics of the file compression?
    Chance favors the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    Lucky Hack wrote:
    P-shop... Progressive jpeg
    save it as a gif
    or save it as jpg with level 6 or 7 compression.

    better yet, choose "save for web" which removes the exif etc and will give you the lightest weight file...
    Andy

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  • SeymoreSeymore Banned Posts: 1,539 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    OK...I'm sure someone else will jump in with the actually method you need. I use PSP8 and the compression is implemented during the file save. Sorry, I'm a limited with PhotoShop.
  • Lucky HackLucky Hack Registered Users Posts: 594 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    thanks.
    Chance favors the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur
  • Lucky HackLucky Hack Registered Users Posts: 594 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    yeah, I still can't get it below 37,000 even when I cut the icon out of the preview, and I've even tried indexing it, maybe it's a MAC thing, it probably is attatching a resource fork and a whole bunch of other stuff I don't need. Are you using a Windows machine? Maybe I'll try my co-workers PC thanks for the tip...
    Chance favors the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur
  • Lucky HackLucky Hack Registered Users Posts: 594 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    Awesome!, that was it, thanks Andy
    Chance favors the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    I washed mine in hot water.
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