how did you resize your avatars so small?!

[I_am_plankton]

I have been playing around with photos suitable for an avatar, both with Paint and Photoshop but can't get my images under the 6kb size limit Help!!

[Holly]

I put mine onto photobucket and resized it there- there's an avatar option (at least I think that's what I did )

[Basia]

For this particular forum I did mine on here because I just couldn't get it small enough any other way.
http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/

[I_am_plankton]

Yay!! I used the link Gill that is fantastic, no more worrying about why I can't resize it properly

Many thanks x

[Catja]

Okay, why won't the site you gave the link to let me resize my pic to an avatar

My pics are jpgs so surely it should work. What am I doing wrong

[I_am_plankton]

Hmm you should just need to browse for the picture to resize on your PC, and then set the maximum pixels for the avatar.

Then it will resize it

[Catja]

Yep, thats what I am doing but it keeps saying it does not recognise the format - but they are all jpgs

[peggy]

Do not save EXIF (it adds a few kBs), save in something about 90 % JPEG quality - smaller easily decreases image quality and higher create often too large files.