Avetar Help

I played around trying to fit an avetar onto this site, but couldn't get it to work. The posted 49k  100 by 100 pixel limit doesn't translate well to my photo editing program, Paintshop Pro. When I tried posting an avetar that my program claimed was 33k and 81 by 80 it wouldn't take it.

If I go smaller the thing starts looking like crap.

Post your picture here and I will try to help you, or e-mail to me bill@ncka.org

Thanks for the offer but I really want to figure it out myself. There are other forums I want to post different avetars to plus change them at times. I know the basics of how to downsize the pic but some seem to get washed out.

I understand the about pixels to a certain extent and have figured out it's better to crop the picture to only as much as is essential. I have even posted avetars successfully in another forum. It just seems that the parameters they give you are wrong, so I would like to know how other people are doing it. For instance what program do you use and what method meaning do you reduce the percent, the pixal dimensions or what?

I finally figured out the problem. I think it had to do with options to save origian picture data.

Which leaves one question. How do you up the detail to go with the size. Meaning when you make the picture less than 100 by 100 pixals and it comes out to 3KB, how do you get it to be closer to 49 kb. Is this related to the original pictures quality or density?

You can't up the quality once you've shrunk it without it looking like crap. What you need to do is start with your oversized picture and adjust the jpeg compression settings in the application you're using to reduce it. If you have Office 2003 installed, it includes Microsoft Picture Manager which you can use to do this under the Export features. As an example, the default settings on Picture Manager are set to 80% quality which created a 3KB picture size at 100x69 pixels on my test photo. If I up the compression settings to 100% quality the size increases to 8K for the same size picture.

Hope that helps.

Yah, I always save the original picture to start over for resizing. I've been using the percent change in Paint Shop Pro but that reduces the Kb's also and so I get to 100 by 100 and 3 kb. So I guess I need to experiment by changing pixel size  and so forth.

Photoshop my friend, photoshop.

MolBasser