Help needed with avatar sizing.

[huerfanista]

Forum rules state that a custom avatar can be 100 x 100 or 6kb, whichever is smaller. I'd like to know if there are any tips on image filetypes/manipulation that will allow me to create a 100 x 100 pixel avatar that will fit into 6kb. I can't seem to do it with a jpeg file, even at the lowest quality level. As you can see from my current avatar, I had to make it 40 x 40 in order to fit into 6kb. Any advice appreciated. (I'm using Photoshop, BTW).

 

[kiwitt]

I use MS Paint for mine.

 

[huerfanista]

I use MS Paint for mine.

What filetype did you save it in? .BMP?

EDIT: got it - .GIF works

 

[kiwitt]

jpeg or jpg

 

[The_J]

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Because it doesn't have anything to do with Civ4 .

 

[Takhisis]

Use GIMP if you do any more complicated work.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Irfanview with the plugin pack. I can tell it the max file size to save the image with, and it automatically adjusts settings to get it to that while keeping the best possible quality.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

Forum rules state that a custom avatar can be 100 x 100 or 6kb, whichever is smaller. I'd like to know if there are any tips on image filetypes/manipulation that will allow me to create a 100 x 100 pixel avatar that will fit into 6kb. I can't seem to do it with a jpeg file, even at the lowest quality level. As you can see from my current avatar, I had to make it 40 x 40 in order to fit into 6kb. Any advice appreciated. (I'm using Photoshop, BTW).

Use Gif or PNG and play around with the color palette. In Gimp you can find it in the menu 'Image' > 'Mode', where you chose 'Indexed ...' In Photoshop it is nearly identical.

 

[Takhisis]

Or just use RGB and be done with it.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

Or just use RGB and be done with it.

That entails lossy compression, which may, or may not be a problem.

 

[Takhisis]

This is a forum avatar which will be 100x100 at best

 

[Tee Kay]

Save it as 8-bit PNG.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

This is a forum avatar which will be 100x100 at best

I understood as much.