hartzofspace wrote:
Couldn't get it small enough for an avatar, so here goes...
Gosh. I'm going to have to teach my wife-to-be all these interesting (boring) things, am I?
1) Nice image, but too small! Gimme a full size desktop image! Slightly manic cackling (otherwise known as laughter) should issue from your screen as this point. Hee hee hee, (Something like "Number 9", in "Short Circuit", having his epiphany at the top of the mountain.).
2) Your image is only 100 pixels wide and 71 high, when you're allowed 140 by 140. So you're OK there.
3) However, your image is 16706 bytes. I'm not sure what exactly Alex means when he says "... and the file size no more than 16 KB." Doing it "properly", that should mean you are only allowed 16,000 bytes. Alex may be being less than pedantic, and meaning 16,384 bytes (when he should have said "... 16 KiB"), but in either case, 16,706 is way over!
In the short term,
should do.
What I'm bemused by, is what software generated the file? I've used two different programs (KolourPaint and The GIMP) on it. In each case, I just loaded your image and saved it straight back with 100% "accuracy". Both programs better than halved the file size.
PS. I got carried away, and tried out PNG (Potable Network Graqhics) format, so as to get transparency, hence
which is different.
Anyway, the photo was first scanned onto a disk at one of those do-it-yourself photo kiosks. Then I uploaded to my computer, saved it, and then uploaded it to photobucket. While trying to upload it to the forum as an avatar, I reduced the size as small as photobucket would make it, and then when I decided to increase the size, couldn't get it to work. I've got a lot to learn, LOL but am willing and able. I've even bought some computer books!