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HermitThrush
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How would I go about compressing an image to the required size for an avatar?
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Ski
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 Thu Jun 01, 2017 6:21 pm |
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Open the file with Windows "Paint". Click "resize" at top. You may have to play around with it to get it to fit.
Be sure to save a copy of the original image file prior to fiddling around with it.
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HermitThrush
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I was on a Mac but was able to do something similar within the Tools menu, so thanks for the tip! as you can see it was successful
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Chico
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Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:14 pm |
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From your settings - "Displays a small graphic image below your details in posts. Only one image can be displayed at a time, its width can be no greater than 150 pixels, the height no greater than 150 pixels, and the file size no more than 16 KB."
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Chico
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Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:23 pm |
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| Ski wrote: | | Open the file with Windows "Paint". |
This assumes the person is running Windows. Some us choose not too.
I recall making mine. Height and width were easy enough. File size took some work as I recall. I'd resize and check the file size. Not small enough. Downgrade the quality or dpi. Check file size again. Have Photoshop and another darn good shareware application. Could use Lightroom if I wanted but more familiar with Photoshop at this point.
Now also have Windows 10 on the other half of the partitioned hard drive but only so I can run GIS. Was "forced" to use Windows when I had a paying job. Now I get to do what I want when I want to and the way I want to.
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Tom
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Tue Jun 13, 2017 2:20 pm |
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BurnsideBob
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Avatar Post Test.
I have had a hard time getting photos into a format where I can use them as avatars.
I was unable to shrink photos taken with my Canon DSLR to the 16K size limit for avatars on NWHikers.net.
What I finally figured out is that my camera is taking images in 24 bit color. To work on this site photos should be in 8-bit color.
What I did was use Microsoft Photo Viewer to down size the image I wanted to use to 70 x 70 pixels. I then pasted the resulting image into Microsoft Word. In Microsoft Word I right clicked on the image and selected "save image as". The image saved from Microsoft Word was now small enough to meet the 16 K file size limit. Microsoft Word automatically converts color depth from whatever to 8-bit, reducing file size.
I hope this helps if you've been having similar issues.
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Randito
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Wed Jun 24, 2020 5:54 pm |
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| Chico wrote: | | This assumes the person is running Windows. Some us choose not too. |
How much effort is required for you to figure out that the MacOs equivalent is "Paintbrush" and for Linux it is "mtPaint" ?
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