Avatar And Signature

eug3n1

<div class="IPBDescription">im new here....</div> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> how do you make normal signatures. mainly how do you make them so small, i mean the size must be 22kb or smth like that and you have very colorful pictures there.how did you make them so small?
and i tried to put my own made avatar and it didnt work what must i do? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->

Legionnaired

<!--QuoteBegin---eug3n!-+Dec 27 2002, 11:03 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (-eug3n!- @ Dec 27 2002, 11:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> how do you make normal signatures. mainly how do you make them so small, i mean the size must be 22kb or smth like that and you have very colorful pictures there.how did you make them so small?
and i tried to put my own made avatar and it didnt work what must i do? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Get photoshop or GIMP (http://www.gimp.org), make a 400x75, save as .jpeg, adjust quality till size<22Kb.

Simple, no?

Or, goto the artwork forum and request one to be made for you.

Comprox

This sig is below 22kb, so it can be done <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> Nice and colorful!
As for avatars, make sure it is hosted somewhere (not on the forums), and link to it in your control panel.

WraithOfDark

Get good ole' Fireworks 4 (4, Not **string of obsceneties so long there's no sheet of paper on this earth on which I could write them** MX) for all your compression needs.
It's not difficult to compress your average sized signiture to 20kb and below, just play around with formats (gif and jpg being the ones you want to use) 'til you get a nice balance between quality and size. I, typically, use 80/85% jpg compression in Fireworks 4.