less than 6kb?

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:55 pm

today i was thinking about putting up a profile picture. i tried using photoshop to make the jpeg smaller but all i could get it down to was 37 kb

so i was wondering what programs you all used to compress yours?

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:35 pm

Try saving as a .png or .tif they have reduced colours. Also if it is not already too small make it smaller.

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:50 pm

i converted the picture to 60x80 resolution. then saved it as png and it was 67kb. after that i turned it into jpeg and put it as lowest quality which got it down to 31kb. i tried putting it in black and white but that made it to 34.1kb

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:00 am

found a wierdly large amount of 4kb pictures buried deep down in my computer

thanks for your help anyway!

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:17 pm

For very small images, GIF is usually a better bet than JPEG. It is limited to 256 colours, but it does let you have a transparent colour. Not usually great for photos, but OK for icons.

BTW you can embed the colour palette into a GIF image, so you can effectively choose which 256 colours you use, but maybe that's going a bit too far...