Resizing photo for avatar

[Ol' Timer]

I have been trying to resize a photo within Photoshop for an avatar. In the 'image size' dialogue box the image now shows as 19.1K but when I save it, it shows on the hard drive as 88KB and is too large to upload.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Jonesy]

I have been trying to resize a photo within Photoshop for an avatar. In the 'image size' dialogue box the image now shows as 19.1K but when I save it, it shows on the hard drive as 88KB and is too large to upload.

What am I doing wrong?

Copy your old one to the clipboard, file new in Pshop, this will give you the correct image and canvas size and paste your new one in, job done

 

[m0rk]

100px by 100px 20kb max

 

[Ol' Timer]

Copy your old one to the clipboard, file new in Pshop, this will give you the correct image and canvas size and paste your new one in, job done

Tried that but it's showing as 84KB. I'm saving at as a JPEG at maximum quality, is that correct?

 

[Steve_B]

You could try saving at a lower quality, that would compress the image more and make the file smaller. With the size of the avatars the lower image quality isn't going to be a problem

 

[m0rk]

email it to me, I'll do it when I get home (about 8ish)

you can't have editted the canvas size will be my guess - unless it's a huge animated gif, I can't see why it's not fixing it

 

[Ol' Timer]

Finally sorted it at home on my old Mac running OS9. I think it might be something to do with the colour calibration software we use at work tagging extra information onto the file when it is saved. Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions.