How do I shrink a pic for avatar?

[gbb]

Hi, everyone

How do I make a photo small enough to be uploaded as an avatar? I can't run ps on my computer, as it's too small. Thanks.

 

[lubitel]

what software can you use?

 

[dmr]

You can probably upload it to any of several photo hosting sites and then download the thumbnail.

 

[gbb]

L: We used to have Picassa, but it started to give us bugs so we don't use it anymore.
DMR: Which sites would you reccomend?

 

[HansDerHase]

Guess if your computer is too small for PS then it's to small for The GIMP either. I like IrfanView for quick image manipulations. It will scale your image resampling with quite a couple of filters to chose from. There is also a quick-shot sharpen to finish it of. Maybe that will do. BTW: IrfanView can plug in many PS-Plugins. For example I use it with the very neat virtualPhotographer.

All of this is free of course.

 

[RayPA]

One of the only ways I've had success sizing for avatars is to scan at the required avatar size. As soon as I touch the image with PS it balloons in size, regardless of quality and sizing settings.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Send me the photo and I can do it?

 

[dmr]

DMR: Which sites would you reccomend?

Well, {ducking, running, hiding} 🙂 you can upload it to the gallery here, then download the thumbnail, and then delete it.

 

[ch1]

Funny this would come up today - as I struggled with this for the last 2 nights. I just couldn't get my file smaller than 20kb in PS - no matter what I did (even saving in low res JPEG and cropping the heck out of it!).

Then in deperation I remembered that MS Office suite includes a Picture Manager program. Not very user friendly but , lo and behold, it has a tool where you can shrink an image down to thumbnail for website size!

Took a while to figure how to save the result but once I did that - it was simple to upload a "right-sized" image/file!

If you have MS Office - you're there.

 

[DougK]

I've been wondering about this myself but I never thought of using MS Photo Editor before :bang:

I guess my PC at work is good for something after all. 😀

 

[back alley]

for a quick downsize use the free irfanview.
it loads way faster than photoshop and works just fine.
and did i mention it is free?!

joe