Help on making Avatars

in photoshop I use the "save for the Web" fonction.

after that a new window will open with your image and to the right you have some setting you can change. Look closely to the right of the "preset: name" there's a little arrow, click on it and select "optimize to file size..." and there you can insert maximum kb that you want the image to be and it will set all the setting so that the image doesn't exceed the amout of kb, most of the time it do a perfect job ^^

and this is what I did with your avatar (I took it from the same wallpaper)



the ava is 10kb and there no quality lost there ^^

Jam it back in, in the dark.

hmm there something far more easy then what you do Legato.

1. open your image (original size of the picture)
2. click on the rectangular marquee tool
3. change style to: Fixed Aspect Ration
4. put 105x150 in the aspect ration
5. select the part of the picture that you want in the avatar (it will do a rectangle of the ration 105x150)
6. copy/paste the selection into a new file
7. resize the file to 105x150 and there you have your new avatar

to save the ava for something less then 20kb with almost no quality lost, just follow what I said in this thread earlier^^

There's nowhere I can't reach.