New Avatar Pic Help!

[Txcorey]

So, what is the secret to getting an avatar photo small enough that is still clear? Are there instructions anywhere? I've been messing with this for 30 minutes or so and can't seem to figure it out. I've cropped a pic, put it in photoshop, and am going the image resize route at 150 pixels x 150 pixels and it's still not small enough and is super blurry. This is why I never change it, because it's a Pain!

[anelia]

You can try the option Save for web in Photoshop.

[Txcorey]

Got the new siggy to work. Still trying to figure out the avatar-tried saving it for the web and it still says it's too big. Not sure why this always gives me such trouble.

[anelia]

Are you saving it as JPEG or PNG? It should be JPEG because of bigger compression

[Saar]

When you tried to save it for web, did you lower the quality less than 100%?

[Txcorey]

Originally Posted by anelia

Are you saving it as JPEG or PNG? It should be JPEG because of bigger compression

JPEG

[Txcorey]

Originally Posted by Saar

When you tried to save it for web, did you lower the quality less than 100%?

Yep. Saving for the 29 kb at 150 pixels by 150 pixels. I don't understand why I have no trouble saving layouts and uploading them, but have tons of trouble with the avatar.

[anelia]

try lowering the size to 20 kb. Sometimes it says 29 kb but it cannot be uploaded because it's actually more. If it doesn't work, upload your avatar to tinypic or somewhere else and send it to me via PM.

[Txcorey]

Finally got it. Not sure what I did different than the 27 other times I tried to do it, but it worked. Thanks for your help.

[anelia]

You're welcome Your avatar is lovely!

[Saar]

Yay, it worked. Sorry to read you had to try so many times!

[clucaswvu04]

I'm having issues too...and feel like I am doing the same things - mine shows up in my profile as a link - so weird!

[mrsashbaugh]

I just changed mine and did 150x150 and save for web and 22kb and it worked.

[Txcorey]

Originally Posted by clucaswvu04

I'm having issues too...and feel like I am doing the same things - mine shows up in my profile as a link - so weird!

I feel your pain. I'm 'm not sure what I finally did to make it work. I was doing a combination of image resize and then save for web. I did finally push the file size down to 25 kb. I don't know why I always have trouble with the avatar pic, but I do.

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