Now in the Forum, click on Quick Links near the top right, and choose Edit Avatar. If it does look OK then click the Save button and give it a name. If you don't like how it looks then hit the cancel button and resize it to 70x70 or 60圆0 and start again at the top of this message. Does it look OK? If it looks like crap compared to the picture on the left then it's over-compressed. Move the slider around until it's slightly less than 8.000K. Now once again look at the numbers below the right image - the number should be much smaller. Grab the triangle and slide it towards the middle until it is set at 50 or somewhere around that. (That's a decimal point, so 8K, not 8 thousand K.) But if not, look back up near the top right corner, to the right of where you set JPG, you'll see a box called Quality and it will probably say '100' in it but will say something between 1 and 100.Ĭlick the arrow to the right of the number and a slider will pop up. It should say something like:Īs long as that number is below 8.000K you're fine. Now look at the right image, and look all the way at the bottom. Set it to JPG.īelow that uncheck both Progressive and ICC Profile. Near the top rght corner you'll have a box with choices of GIF, JPG, PNG, etc.

Don't be surprised if you end up with a large Amount - my Wolf avatar was around 300%. Set the Threshold to 0 and the Radius to. Just make sure both numbers are less than 80 pixels.

Set the Width or Height to 80 pixels and the other box will adjust automatically. Make sure Constrain Proportions and Resample Image are both checked. Select the area you wish, then choose Image. Of course, if you don't wish it to be square then set the Style to Normal and free-hand the selection. For 80x80 I use the Marquee Tool and set the Style (in the toolbar at the top) to Fixed Aspect Ratio and set both Width and Height to 1. Get your image to 80x80 pixels or smaller. (Should be very similar for Photoshop Elements I guess)

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