Modern Vespa

But how the hell do you guys fit your pictures into your avatar with only 20 kb to work with? most of my pictures are like 80 or more, i cut a picture down so small you couldnt see what it was and it was still 28 kb!

Probley a very simple answer right infront of me...

It's actually not that easy. First, you need to start with the right photo. I always shoot my photos in "raw" mode, so I am dealing with the best possible quality. Then I crop it to get rid of any and all extraneous stuff while still keeping enough of the photo to make sense. Once cropped, I use Photoshop to resize it and then "save for web devices". When saving the photo, I use the "Quality" toggle to reduce the image quality which in turn reduces the resolution.

As I said, it's not that easy but entirely doable if you have the right photo to start with and the right tools! (Photoshop or some other photo editor).

I use easy thumbnails which is free. Just point at your photo and create a thumbnail. Then upload the thumbnail. Alter the settings to reduce the file size. MS Paint would also allow you to crop an image and save just a part of it.

ah i see, yeah i cropped it, then resized it and saved as a J-PEG. I have paintshop Pro, but used paint to resize it. I would try out the quality changing
but i get to go to the petrol station fill up the vespa then a nice 6 mile drive to tescos for a little shopping

Thank you for the prompt Help

Sounds good! il have a look when i get in. Thanks guys

Your post helped me as well, so thank you.

"save for web" is important, it gets rid of all the EXIF data like camera model, exposure info and date/time that is saved with the image.

+1

It's not really hard with the right tool, one which will save a photo without all the fluff.

Easy thumbnails worked a treat

I just changed my Avitar to show my GTS250 that I just finished customizing. I used MS Paint to crop and then did a Strech and Skew at 60% each time till I got the photo small enough to fit the parameters. If I had realized it had to be so small I would have done a 20% 1st. The pic has to be 20k and only 128x128 pixels. I hit the 20k files size but the pic was still over 300 pixels.
I think it still looks good enough that you can tell there is no shiny chrome to slow me down.!!

To post pictures I download them off the camera then use paint to do a 35% x35% stretch and skew to get it under the 800 x800 pixel size limit.