Profile pic.. HELP!

[strawberrykiss]

I reduced the size of my profile pic but it keeps saying its too large? Also tried photobucket with no success in getting it to load here. Help? Please!

 

[LukkyKnight]

I reduced the size of my profile pic but it keeps saying its too large? Also tried photobucket with no success in getting it to load here. Help? Please!

Well, that's not much to go on, but the obvious answer is to try reducing it again.

The best format is probably .jpg, which allows you to compress the file size. Typically you can bump the compression to about half-way along whatever scale your software uses without sacrificing much picture quality.

It's possible, also, that it's the overall dimensions, in other words the width and/or height, in which case you need to reduce the image size (which will also reduce the file size as an added bonus.)

Or you can email it to me and I'll fix it...

Good luck.

 

[strawberrykiss]

Thanks for the speedy reply! I reduced it down to 250x250 like it said it needed to be, so I need to go smaller? Tried hosting too, no luck.

 

[strawberrykiss]

Update, I got it! YAY!!!

 

[LukkyKnight]

Nice picture. For the sake of posterity (in case anybody actually does a search before asking the same question) what did you have to tweak to make the upload work?

 

[Weird Harold]

Thanks for the speedy reply! I reduced it down to 250x250 like it said it needed to be, so I need to go smaller? Tried hosting too, no luck.

Your problem wasn't the pixel dimensions, but the filesize.

The limits for a profile Picture are:

Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 250 by 250 pixels or 29.3 KB (whichever is smaller).

Those are three separate limits; if you exceed ay one of the three, height, width, or bytes, it will be rejected as "too large."

You chose to reduce the pixel dimesnions until the filesize was also reduced beloe the limit, but adjusting the "JPeG Quality" or "JPeG compression" setting in your image editor would have been better.

If you have trouble finding the JPeG compression setting in your image editor, try downloading Irfanview -- it has the JPeG settings in the "Save" and "Save As" dialogues so it can be adjusted on a picture by picture basis.