Bah! File sizes!

[Fate Fatale]

So every time I make a sig, and I apologize for this to the Staff, it always comes up with a filesize of about 60-64. This, of course doesn't meet the requirements for sig size on these forums. I was wondering how everyone gets their sigs down to size becuase my PS seems to hate me when I save stuff. (i've reverted to resaving in ms paint which several downgrades the image... )

[rubah]

save for web ->
jpeg ->
56% compression (adjust until it says it's well within 50kb, sometimes the preview is wrong, so just be safe)
not interlacced
yes optimized

[Nominus Experse]

Use Irfanview or GIMP to save your picture if you are uncertain.

[Lawr]

Since you're using Photoshop, do what I do; save it as a CompuServ GIF and try to reduce as many unnecessary colors as you can. Sometimes I can even get stuff down to literally 5 kb without changing the image at all.

By the looks of it, I don't think you'll be making anything so big that the above method won't work for you.

[Fate Fatale]

Thanks!

[rubah]

Sagensyg, we need to have a talk. . .

something about reducing colors of 8-bit PNGs being more useful than GIF for images that have more than two colors and are bigger than 400 pixels. . .