50 B picture?

[Marek Kalisz]

One of IMs has an option to put photo on someone's infor page. However, the
maximum size limit is 50 B. How to squeeze a photo that it will be still
readable and fit maximum size? using a few utilities with standard resizing
options (for emailing, web page, etc.) still saves this picture (even as
JPG) in a size at least 2-3 times larger then this IM limit.
Marek Kalisz

 

[Joe Wright]

One of IMs has an option to put photo on someone's information page. However, the
maximum size limit is 50 B.

50 KB maybe?

How to squeeze a photo that it will be still
readable and fit maximum size? Using a few utilities with standard resizing
options (for emailing, web page, etc.) still saves this picture (even as
JPG) in a size at least 2-3 times larger then this IM limit.
Marek Kalisz

Paint will let you stretch/skew an image. Then look at its attributes
to see if it meets the requirements.

 

[Marek Kalisz]

Yes you're right - my mistyping. ICQ instruction says:
"Your photo must be in JPG or GIF format, less than 50K." Max what I could
squeeze (even with Paint) was 1.2 kB. And (even with Zoom to max) I could
hardly see anything - picture was like a dot, no way to edit (eventually).
Marek Kalisz

 

[The.SEO.Kid]

I think you're confusing yourself here. From what I can tell that
you're talking about on here, 50K is the same as 50KB. So when you're
making a 1.2KB picture that is just a dot, then that is way smaller
than the size that you could make it. After you save your picture in
paint, before you resize it, go to where you saved it on your computer.
Then right click the file, go to "properties" and look at the size. As
long as it is smaller than 50KB then you're ok. If it is bigger, then
resize it in paint a little at a time until you're within the limit.

 

[Marek Kalisz]

Sorry but I wasn't confusing myself but probably other. Ok, I'll try again
use Paint and see what happens. I founded also some MS Power Toy - resizer.
Try to experiment with it too.
Marek Kalisz

 

[Joe Wright]

Sorry but I wasn't confusing myself but probably other. Ok, I'll try again
use Paint and see what happens. I founded also some MS Power Toy - resizer.
Try to experiment with it too.
Marek Kalisz

It may help to crop the picture to remove some of the extraneous
details. Also try lowering the color from 32, 24, 16 bit to 256 colors,
if you must keep all the details.