CANNOT FIGURE OUT AVATAR.

I have two pictures I'd like to use as my avatar but I cannot for the life of me figure it out. Ive got photoshop and resized it according to how to do it on the site. but everytime I do it it says the file size is too big. Could some one help me out?

Here are the two pictures.

http://s1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff4 ... ction=view¤t=_DSC2526-2.jpg

http://s1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff4 ... ction=view¤t=_DSC2529.jpg

 

Bobby, is the second picture a close up of the bicycle frame ?
You have to get the height x width right, but also the pixel count.

 

I found a walkthrough on how to do it on photoshop once and it didn't work. Ive tried a few different things myself and it never worked. I suppose it cant hurt to try again.

 

the easiest way is to use www.shrinkpictures.com. Browse to the the picture on your machine, select custom and specify 90, and use good quality which will keep the file size low. Hasn't failed me yet and takes one minute.

 

Are wanting to use just the red bike as your avatar?

This one should work if that's the image you want-The images have to be no bigger than 90pixels width or length and 6Kb or less in size.



http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i39 ... edbike.jpg

You should be able to use the direct link

 

For those with Photoshop, the amount of colors used is the key in getting it small. By default on a .gif it is 256, but for avatars you can get by with 60-80 and it shouldn't look much different.

 

Use Microsoft Paint, it's really easy to just resize a picture. Then check the file size of the output.

 

Maybe4 - I gave it a shot and it told me that they couldn't do that file type

MercuryMan - I was going for a "History of Bob" kind of thing with my childhood bike up front and my big boy bikes in the back but if the picture you gave me WORKS I'll use it.

Andrew - If MercuryMans picture doesn't work I'll try that.

Iandmac - That didn't work for me.

 

Well i got an avatar! Thanks MercuryMan. You can still kinda see the XJ's in the background.

 

You bet BB, my pleasure to help. Here's a link to the software I use-It's totally free and works wonders. You can do just about anything you need to any image.

http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

Links to your two original photo's with the big brothers in the pic

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i39 ... dbike2.jpg
http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i39 ... dbike3.jpg

The only problem with avatars is they are so small that the picture needs to be really clear and have good contrast so you can clearly see the image. If the subject is dark and the background is light that works well.



I think the second pic works pretty good

 

Ya right on Merc - I really like that. Thanks alot.