Shrinking a photo. HELP

Fancie Flight · Post by **Fancie Flight** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:13 pm

Hi All. Ok I have shrunk about 10 photos as small as possible and still cant get any small enough to fit on this board as an avatar, Whats the secret????
I can get them roughly about 30 but thats it and by then there pretty mutilated and NOT what I started with.

otto&lucy · Post by **otto&lucy** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:25 pm

Do you know if it's an RGB file or CMYK? If it's CMYK it'll be larger, you can easily change it to RGB mode though. Oh, and if that doesn't work or you can't figure it out you can always save it as a gif, those are really compact. Good luck!

hilljack13 · Post by **hilljack13** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:46 pm

You just have to keep trying. I did the same thing about a week ago. I posted and asked if they could set up something that auto fits the avatar. Its a work in progress that we might not see.

Fancie Flight · Post by **Fancie Flight** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:45 pm

Thank You , I will try making it a Gif and see if that works,

Gracie

Fancie Flight · Post by **Fancie Flight** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:21 pm

well It worked but it sure isnt the stunning photo it started out as, lol

Thanks All

hilljack13 · Post by **hilljack13** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:57 pm

You don't want to make a .gif, the purpose of a .gif is to reduce the size of a picture and to to that you lose quality. What I do is open in Microsoft Paint and crop the picture. I took the full size and just took the head of the bird and only had to drop the size to 90% of the original.

Fancie Flight · Post by **Fancie Flight** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:48 pm

When I was doing that I couldnt get it below 60K and your allowed 6. I will try some other stuff, Thank You

hilljack13 · Post by **hilljack13** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:18 pm

what is the size of your original picture? Do you want the entire pic as the avatar? I did and ended up having to use just the head

FINCHforum

Shrinking a photo. HELP

Shrinking a photo. HELP

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