making an avatar out of your own pictures

[splawnster]

I tried doing this with window paints, resized them until there small enough  6kb but there so tiny its not worth putting up. How else can you resize them.

[plastercaster]

I use HP image zone, but the program shouldn't really matter. It allows me to adjust the quality of the file, so you could try dropping that and seeing if it becomes small enough- don't forget to use JPEG otherwise you'll never fit them in 6kb.
alternatively, the size limits might be more relaxed if the file is hosted on photobucket or something.

[Peter Antal]

If you save the picture in JPG or PNG format, you can set the level of compression. The more compression you apply the smaller the file and the worse the image quality. If I were you, I'd save my picture in BMP format in paint then open it with a free image editor like Irfanview and save the picture in JPG format with the necessary amount of compression. Usually you can go as low as 90% with quality before you start to see artifacts in the picture. Hope this helps. :)

[sgmypod]

I used a free online avatar maker

[Will]

Just used paint myself, but it is a bit of an old scanned in photo. Nothing special, just fills the void.

I do find that it seems really small, but by the time you have put it on there, it looks fine

[TwilightOdyssey]

I use Photoshop and 'Save as Web Picture' option. Then you can see how much of the image you are losing when you downscale the resolution.   PDT_032

[splawnster]

Thanks for the help guys

[Mr Ed]

I use Jasc Animation Shop - it came with Paint Shop Pro (which sucks) but it's dead basic and great for making little gifs.

[horsehead]

There's a program called bannershop out there that's availble that's brilliant for avatars, or use Gimp...one of the best completely free programs out there

[gwEm]

GIMP can be a bit weird to use, but its powerful and free at least:

http://www.gimp.org/

;)

[dave_mc]

If you save the picture in JPG or PNG format, you can set the level of compression. The more compression you apply the smaller the file and the worse the image quality. If I were you, I'd save my picture in BMP format in paint then open it with a free image editor like Irfanview and save the picture in JPG format with the necessary amount of compression. Usually you can go as low as 90% with quality until you start to see artifacts in the picture. Hope this helps. :)

+1

you can save it as a jpeg in paint as well. that's what i always do.