Picture Reduction

[saga]

I have a task at hand to reduce the size of a picture file to 6k or less, to create an avatar for my friend. How do I go about this. The original size of the file is 44k.

[Mydriasis]

You can change:

size dimensions (pixels)
color depth
compression format


Do you have PS? Try save for web... there you can set the maximum size!

[leandroc76]

Do you have photoshop, Gimp? This is probably the mose basic thing you can do to an image.

We need a little more info.

[dllavaneras]

I agree with the previous posters. "saving for web" strips a file of it's resource fork and lowers the file size. Resizing or further compression also lower the size, for obvious reasons.

[saga]

Do you have photoshop, Gimp? This is probably the mose basic thing you can do to an image.

We need a little more info.

No Zed, I don't have photoshop. It sounds like save for web may be my best bet.