Ava Pic tut...downsizing file size without losing quality

XoGoddessEoX · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 3803 Location: USA - TX

Hi. I don't know how many of you will remember, but on more than one occassion, I had trouble loading my avatar picture because the file size was too big. Everyone was so sweet to respond and help me out, but I just couldn't get it no matter how much I tried without losing too much of the quality.

Well, I finally figured it out! Unfortunately this is for photoshop users, but if you do have Gimp, maybe you can figure out from my directions on how to do so from reading along here.

In photoshop, instead of saving your image the "normal" way...

1. File > Save For Web

2. Select the JPEG option (this is for non-animated images only)

3. Move the slider down until you begin to notice loss in quality. You can normally do this quite a bit before you lose any at all.

4. Click on save.

And that's it! There were other ways that I had seen when looking into this matter but this is the quickest and easiest way to do so, I think. Now, I can go back to making pretty avatar images with more detail if and when I find the time to change them.

Hope this is helpful for all of y'all out there. I know that I had really wanted to figure this out for a while so I thought I would post it for anyone else who needed to know.
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yokko · Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 203 Location: Romania

It's nice of you sharing this. I've just discovered that recently while I was doing some animated catalog icons. I hope the comunity finds it useful.
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julieastar · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 2952 Location: Jamaica

This is how I do it too and it still look as good as png because the picture is too small to show a lot of details lol.This was good of you to share.
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XoGoddessEoX · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 3803 Location: USA - TX

Thanks guys.

I had asked and asked and asked about reducing my file image in the forums. LOL. Lots of people helped, but didn't really know what to do. Everything they tried either made the file look like poopy or left the file too big. One dev did some work on her own for me just out of the kindess of her heart but the quality was just lost too much as well.

So, I searched and found htis little gem and thought I would post it just in case. It might not get a lot of replies on this topic but hopefully it will come up in a search if someone searches it.

So I thought I would post this.
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EgoMatic · Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 732 Location: Australia

Cool, but I don't have that problem :s I can always jupload my images :s oddly.

I think this should be in a different forum, perhaps the graphic arts forum? Because this is for texturing Confused

Nice tip to know anyways, incase I ever have this problem D:

XoGoddessEoX · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 3803 Location: USA - TX

A mod can move it if they want to. I Just wanted to put it out there.

Most people won't have this problem, but I do a lot of things with background images such as layer effects and filter effects, paintbrushes, gradients, etc. so it adds up pretty quick. I almost always end up having to fnd a way to downsize my files on here. LOL.
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NeveahSarrDeRoman · Joined: 12 Apr 2012 Posts: 2 Location: USA - MO

I am so grateful to you for this information, i did look it up and i did see your remarks. I am going to use in the morning and i thank u for thinking on those of us like u. resizing pics is just mentioned no one really gave how, and in steps but u and i do appreciate it so much thank u

ZaraKaine · Joined: 26 Jun 2011 Posts: 5961 Location: United Kingdom

CandyApple · Moderator Joined: 26 Feb 2009 Posts: 12005 Location: USA

*moved to GATAT forum
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SifuCrazyWolf · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 199 Location: USA - MN

One of the best ways tonot lose any quality is to use the *hiresnobg trigger in the chat client. This will take a good background-less picture of well over 2000x2000px and save it to your desktop. This picture will be in .png (portable network graphic) format. Now .PNGs have a much better resolution quality than the traditional .jpeg (.jpg)s and save better without losing much of the resolution. Now commonly these HiRes shots are 72ppi (pixels per inch) but that can be modified to be much greater. In GIMP the maximum ppi you can make images is 65,536 and in Photoshop it is 9,999.99. You can change the maximum resolution quality (ppi) in the preferences in both programs.

Using GIMP as an example, since the ppi resolution is much higher than Photoshops, just create a new image of 160x220 and set the x and y resolutions to 65536ppi. Then when you have the new image, open your HiRes shot as a new layer and resize it accordingly to make it look sweet. Do all the sweet editations to the picture that you wish and then export it as a .png using a compression of 9. Saving as a .png instead of a .jpg will keep its resolution and quality a lot better. Granted a .png file is slightly larger in size than a .jpg; but that just carries over to a higher quality picture... And given that IMVU now allows up to 400kb as the maximum allowed for a Ava Picture...one should have no problem with a static .png image.
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