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[Sythalin]

Anyone have any tips on how to make an image smaller (kb)?

Trying to use


This is already saved at quality 0 and it's still 25 kb. I'm at a loss what I can do to get the file smaller. I've tried different formats and making the image any smaller makes it look like crap, moreso than it already does at this point.

[Dolby]

What are you using to compress the image? I put it into photoshop and saved for web and choose 75 for the quality and it was 2.4k. I bet it would have only been 4k with quality set to 100%

[Seerah]

I saved your jpeg to my desktop, opened it in MS Paint, changed it to 95% of its size (105x105), and it is now 8.75kb.

[Sythalin]

Originally Posted by Dolby What are you using to compress the image? I put it into photoshop and saved for web and choose 75 for the quality and it was 2.4k. I bet it would have only been 4k with quality set to 100%

Didn't "save for web". That's what I was missing. I officially feel retarded, thanks.

[Seerah]

I don't think MS Paint "saves for web" or anything sophisticated... Perhaps your image editing software was embedding other information into the file.

[Sythalin]

Originally Posted by Seerah I don't think MS Paint "saves for web" or anything sophisticated... Perhaps your image editing software was embedding other information into the file.

Photoshop.