i'm trying to use one of my photos as an avatar. you say 60pix and 5kb. if i get 60pix i end up with a 25kb file. can you tell me how to get the 5kb file?
Or open it up in Microsoft Photo Editor & resize it again.... kinda sorta. Just click on OK after you hit "image" & then "resize" ( I think ) go to file & "save as " & for some reason that I don't know Photo Editor always knocks down the kb. Works for me !
I don't know if I'll get anything from this, but I would like to recommend towards raising the 5kb to like... 10kb. Even at 10, its such a minuscule size.
I won't be disappointed if it doesn't happen, but here's hoping
I live to make low animation avies for my profile as everyone knows...and I have a whole loaf, freshly baked..yes I do that...ready and waiting to share........I know that the King hates them and I am trying very hard to make them as low profile as possible so as not to....well you fill in the blanks on that one..it has become a mission and may become a low kb website someday...I had to resort to making my own because it was taking too much time to try and track any decent ones down....feel free to use the dummy dart...I use Image Ready in case anyone is sitting at my feet :(
It's not the tracking down that gets to me, you find a great animated avi & end up having to knock down so many of the frames that it becomes useless. Grrrr ! I have a great animated Halloween avi of a skeleton walking but I gave up on it because it started to look like it was spasms of some kind. * Apologies all around for my last statement* So yeah, 10 kb would be soooooooo cool.
but then again... I think raising it just that bit won't cause more than maybe 10-50 people extra to make animated... which isn't really that many people
Now I would understand if it has something to do with allowed bandwidth, etc.
its not an allowed bandwidth issue as i understand it - more to do with drain on the server for page loads etc - id rather have pages that load instantly and be static than have to wait for it just because of avatars.
i'm happy with the static kind because when i see an animated one, i want to read what is on the right of the avatar and the animation is distracting to me.