Avatar Size
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The specs for avatars is 160 x 160 pixels (fine) but no way can I optimise any image down to 19kB as requested on my control panel? Is this a fault because I can see others putting up larger avatars of far more complex and detailed resolution...
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What are you using to "optimise"? Mine is 8.15kB, achieved by nothing more than reducing it to that size.Shaqui wrote:The specs for avatars is 160 x 160 pixels (fine) but no way can I optimise any image down to 19kB as requested on my control panel? Is this a fault because I can see others putting up larger avatars of far more complex and detailed resolution...
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I'm using Photoshop to make a JPG and I've taken a 113x160 72dpi image down to zero quality, and it's still 104kB...
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Thanks! That seems to have done the trick. How have other people optimised theirs then?
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Mine's just standard Photoshop save-for-web settings.
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Mine's a .gif, and I used Fireworks to resize the original b/w image and output it in .gif format. It seemed to do a better job of handling the image edges against the transparent background than did Photoshop.Shaqui wrote:Thanks! That seems to have done the trick. How have other people optimised theirs then?
I'm slightly puzzled, though. If I save your avatar image to my hard drive, it's only 41.5KB in size. What's more, the pretty similar image on culttimes.co.uk is both larger (212px x 300px) and smaller (only 35KB).
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Paint Shop Pro 4 here. I've been using the same version since I think 1998.
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I use IrfanView.
Its a free small photo editing prog and is reasonably versatile for things like resizing avatars.
Fuz
Its a free small photo editing prog and is reasonably versatile for things like resizing avatars.
Fuz
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I see they're on the right now :-) (Just checking if it works)
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Just had a thought... is your original image CMYK? If so, did you convert it to RGB within Photoshop before saving to JPG?Shaqui wrote:I'm using Photoshop to make a JPG and I've taken a 113x160 72dpi image down to zero quality, and it's still 104kB...
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Yes it was RGB. But I was saving as a standard JPG and using the optimisation controls there, and not Save For Web after all... I think I've been out of web design for too long.Simon Coward wrote:Just had a thought... is your original image CMYK? If so, did you convert it to RGB within Photoshop before saving to JPG?Shaqui wrote:I'm using Photoshop to make a JPG and I've taken a 113x160 72dpi image down to zero quality, and it's still 104kB...
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I use the The GNU Image Manipulation Program (Gimp).
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Just a check.
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That's what I did, too.Paul Hayes wrote:Mine was downsized in Paint!
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I can never get sizes in Paint, just the % of the original pic. I always use Piknic/Picasa.Lord Brett wrote:That's what I did, too.Paul Hayes wrote:Mine was downsized in Paint!
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You can change them to the left by editing the style HTML and CSS files within the phpBB themes folders.groovy69 wrote:I see they're on the right now :-) (Just checking if it works)