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Picture for profile

Postby philip_sloper » Wed 21.12.2005, 19:40

I finally managed to reduce the file size of my picture to below the 10K maximum to allow it to be uploaded into my profile, but the image quality is cr*p whereas the original was pin sharp.

I notice other people have good quality profile pictures, what's the secret?
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Postby F1 LOTUS » Wed 21.12.2005, 20:58

How did you reduce it?
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Postby philip_sloper » Wed 21.12.2005, 22:01

Re-sized to 150 pixels wide in Photoshop, then saved in lowest file quality.
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Re: Picture for profile

Postby surfboardfiller » Thu 22.12.2005, 15:28

philip_sloper wrote:I notice other people have good quality profile pictures, what's the secret?


I saved the resized image as JPEG at high quality from photoshop then opened up in MS Paint and saved. Did the trick for me (much to my amazement)!
Photoshop doesn't compress very well for some reason!?

If you have a mac: I don't know. :(
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Postby Doc Fizzix » Thu 22.12.2005, 16:40

philip_sloper wrote:Re-sized to 150 pixels wide in Photoshop, then saved in lowest file quality.


Do the following:

- Select "save for web"
- then in the next window make sure you select that you want to save as a jpeg.
- the addjust the quality slider until the image is 60%
- then select save image
- then you are done
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Postby surfboardfiller » Thu 22.12.2005, 17:41

LotusM100 wrote:Do the following:

- Select "save for web"
- then in the next window make sure you select that you want to save as a jpeg.
- the addjust the quality slider until the image is 60%
- then select save image
- then you are done


Save for web; good call!
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Postby philip_sloper » Thu 22.12.2005, 19:26

OK, that worked.
Many thanks.
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Postby F1 LOTUS » Thu 22.12.2005, 23:12

Oh! So it really IS pink :P
:lol:
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Postby philip_sloper » Fri 23.12.2005, 17:26

Brian_MDB wrote:Oh! So it really IS pink :P
:lol:


No it definitely isn't! It's as red as my eyes will be on 1/1/06!
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