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human · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 232

I've got an image I'd love to use for my avatar on the forum, but no matter how I edit it in Photoshop, I don't seem to be able to get it small enough to work. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Brad · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:45 pm Post subject: Re: Forum avatars?

Brad · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: Forum avatars?

human · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 232

I think the problem I am having is with Photoshop. I started out with an 8k image that was about 120 x 108 pixels. When I reduced it to 80, Photoshop inflated the file size to 68k! No matter what I do, Photoshop won't make an image file smaller than 60k.

The avatar I've got up now isn't the one I want to use, but I managed to create a low resource GIF file using another program for the Mac called Graphic Converter. I had to make the image monochrome to keep the file size small enough.

Brad · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:56 am Post subject:

Can you email or ftp me the original file. I'll give it a try. I'll try my version of photoshop. If that doesn't work, I'll try using Gimp.

Brad
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human · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 232

GNU did the trick. I knew my creaky old Linux laptop was good for basic stuff, but this is the first time I've actually managed to accomplish something with it that I couldn't do with my iMac. Free Linux software rocks, Dude!!! headbang

Brad · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject:

human · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 232

I agree. I'm a big fan of open source.

The image is a capture from the 1942 Superman cartoon "The Magnetic Telescope".

Hey wow! This is my 100th post!

Sorry, I'm easily amused.

Brad · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:44 am Post subject: