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How would I do this?

Just load it up in GIMP/Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro and save it as a JPG.

MS paint in XP can do this.

thanks...

So I am trying to change my avatar to a photo, but the size remains the same when I make the pic smaller. Does that sound right? What's the best way to go about making a photo into an avatar?

PM me and i'll give you my mail adress. I'll fix the image for ya.

Or you can download Irfanview its perfect for resizing.

Xnview works as well and also supports a huge number of file formats.

Or, you can just look at Supes' av, think "oh, he managed it then" and go home.

phongn wrote:Xnview works as well and also supports a huge number of file formats.

I know i have Xnview too i use it for screencaps.

You might want to consider "gif" format. If you keep editing and saving a file in standard jpg format, you'll lose a little image quality over time, you'll eventually see 'blocky' colours/edges starting to appear. JPG compression sacrifices image data each time to compress it further. The gif format also supports transparency.

Also make sure you reduce colour depth. A jpg will save with 16 million colours, a gif will reduce that to 256. In most paint programs you can force it to reduce that even further. For an avatar you probably only need 16 colours (maybe even less). You'll see smaller file sized if you do this.

My avatar is about 5k in gif, 9k in jpg format (with the least compression).

I can crank up compression in the jpg, but I'd lose image quality.

MS Paint in fricken Windows 3.1 can do this. Just save the file as a .jpg.

Zoink, it depends on the image. For screenshots of a GUI, or small pictures, GIF rules. When it comes to images larger than 320x240, GIF starts to have a larger filesize than a JPEG at the same resolution.

This is settled.