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[Hazel-rah]

Ahhh

I'm pulling my hair out... nothing I'm trying to upload works.

40 x 48 Pixels

Filesize = 1.5K
It seems JCF is using cluster size to measure the filesize. Cluster size = 4K

Anyway, I was wondering if you could put the avatar filesize up to a 5K limit... it won't even upload avatars that are heavily degraded at this point.

[Link]

The image must be exactly 48x48 pixels.

[Tubz]

Bleh, I could care less about avatars. I wish the signatures were a little more lenient, not as lenient as originally though.

BTW, send your pic to Monolith and he'll convert it for you. Lol, there's a certain program he used, but I forgot what it was called.

[Monolith]

BTW, send your pic to Monolith and he'll convert it for you. Lol, there's a certain program he used, but I forgot what it was called.
<a href= "http://www.gimp.org">GIMP</a>

[Tubz]

Lol, thanks. If the internet works, I can download that tommorow.

[Hazel-rah]

5K limit, plz :'(

Anything under 4K looks like crap.

*cries like a spoiled brat*

[Newspaz]

If you can't get it right under 4kb then you should try harder ;)

[Hazel-rah]

I tried everything!

Both MS Paint and Adobe Photoshop cannot do it! :(

*begz*

is 2 more kilobytes so much to ask? :(

[Blackraptor]

I'm assuming you followed Link's directions and stretched it to 48x48, right?

[Radium]

Post the pic and let us try.

[Hazel-rah]

Here is the full size image. Yes, I resized it to 48x48, and every single time I try to retain the image quality it comes out larger than 3K... and anything 3K or below is terrible.

<img src="http://webpages.charter.net/jazzjackrabbit/hazel.bmp">

[Torkell]

I've managed 3.24K. I'll have a go and see if I can shrink it any more.

[Torkell]

Done it - 2.43KB. Get it from http://uk.geocities.com/the_boggyb/hazel-small-128.gif (copy and paste link to outwit anti-leech code on Geocities).

[Hazel-rah]

Thank you. I don't know how you did it. Well done.

[Torkell]

I used Corel Photo-paint (but any other decent graphics program will do the job). I took the original, cropped it to 192x192 and then resampled it to 48x48. Resizing looks a lot nicer when it's done by a simple fraction (e.g. 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5).
Then I first tried saving it as a 256-colour gif, but that was over the filesize. Dropping the number of colours to 128 did the job, and there doesn't appear to be any visible loss in quality. Oh, I told Corel to use an optimised palette (which means it looks for the best set to use, rather than a standard set or the first x unique ones) with no dithering on the image (so it used the closest colour).

Main points: resize by a simple fraction, like 1/2 or 1/3, and use less colours.

[Hazel-rah]

I tried to use custom pallettes with the GIF format but Photoshop must not be that smart to optimise it ;/

[Radium]

<s>http://www.foxmage.com/H2.gif
I beat Boggy by .2 KB and with very little apparent loss of quality!</s>

[Violet CLM]

<img src="http://www.tachyonlabs.com/sam/H3.png" width="48" height="48">
1733. Looks fine to me.

[Odin]

Why are you using GIFs? I can only see 16 to 24 colors that could be used, and it'd still look good at lower resolutions.

[Torkell]

Erm... because I didn't have PNG support on Corel, and a GIF is good enough quality.

[Hazel-rah]

Well, on the rest of yours the fur looks too brown. On BB's the fur is a lighter color.

And larger filesize means more colors, right? ;D

Edit: Of course on Radium's the white background might be fooling my eyes.

[Odin]

Here.

http://x2y.sourceforge.net/

Image converter, supports png conversion.

[Grytolle]

The pic cant be less?