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saga

macrumors regular
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May 19, 2006
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I have a task at hand to reduce the size of a picture file to 6k or less, to create an avatar for my friend. How do I go about this. The original size of the file is 44k.
 

Mydriasis

macrumors 6502
Mar 17, 2005
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You can change:
  • size dimensions (pixels)
  • color depth
  • compression format

Do you have PS? Try save for web... there you can set the maximum size!
 

leandroc76

macrumors regular
Oct 27, 2003
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Do you have photoshop, Gimp? This is probably the mose basic thing you can do to an image.

We need a little more info.
 

dllavaneras

macrumors 68000
Feb 12, 2005
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Caracas, Venezuela
I agree with the previous posters. "saving for web" strips a file of it's resource fork and lowers the file size. Resizing or further compression also lower the size, for obvious reasons.
 

saga

macrumors regular
Original poster
May 19, 2006
159
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Do you have photoshop, Gimp? This is probably the mose basic thing you can do to an image.

We need a little more info.

No Zed, I don't have photoshop. It sounds like save for web may be my best bet.
 
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