Making an avatar ...

[Biffbradford]

I'm trying to make an avatar from a picture of mine.

I'm told that it must be under 10kb ... so I shrink and shrink.

I'm down to 6x7 pixels and still at 19kb.

It's only a DOT !

<----- THIS IS MY AVATAR.

Any tips???

[Montana]

Are you saving it as a 72 ppi jpg? Also use your image editing software to "Save for Web" (Photoshop) or send as a low res email file or save as a jpg with lower quality. Any of these will strip unneeded data and reduce file size but still allow a decent sized pixel count.

[Cloxxki]

Start over.
Download irfanview.com

It's easy. Downsize to 80 pixels or what-ever the site allows. You can cut an appropriate part out, and paste again to have the zoomed view.
When saving, you can adjust quality (data compression). You will succeed.

[Biffbradford]

Well, in fact I am using IrfanView (my favorite).

This is 71x80, 2 dpi ... still 24kb! (limit is 10kb)

[Biffbradford]

I may not use this exact picture ... it's kind of my "Allah Akbar" look.

[Cloxxki]

2.19kb when saved at 90% compression. Still looks good.

[Cloxxki]

2.19kb when saved at 90% compression. Still looks good.

2.92kb at 95% here.

[Biffbradford]

Ohhhhhhh ....

I see.