How do I get my Photo shrunk to 10kb?

Hey all,

If this is the wrong place to ask this - I apologize in advance.

I have a picture taken with an 8 meg camera that I would like to use as my avator - but I can't seem to shrink it small enough to be accepted by the site - Any suggestions on techniques or software to help?

Thanks!

You can shrink size with Microsoft Office Photo editor if you have MS Office. Change the picture size and resolution until it gets small enough. That's how I do it.

Windows XP Paint will let you "strach and skew" till you you get it right.

check the format. 28k is pretty massive for a 45x45 picture. if you can save it as a jpeg you can lower the quality until the size gets down to 10k. if the pic isn't a photo (like the default forum icons) you should consider using .gif format and lowering the number of colors. gif goes up to 256 but you don't usually need that many.

try picassa from google.

http://picasa.google.co.uk/

or gimp2 - which you can google for which is prolly overkill but a very very good photo editing program.

Kind regards

Dave Rich

hell, send it to me and i'll do it for you in photoshop.

right, i got what i need. was going to delete it anyways before logging out

thanks for looking out - it would be nice sometimes to PM here.

Thanks to Wickerman - I now have a correctly sized picture.

I thought I loaded it up on my profile so that it would show up on my posts - but they are still blank?

How do I get it to load with each of my posts?

Cool - it worked!

Thanks Wickerman!

Now if I could just take a decent picture.......

I use windows paint if idont have an editor, bring it in to paint and resize,