resising to avatar size on photoshop cs

[rcdude]

hey i was justy wondering how i can rezize some of my photos so i can use them for avatars, i want it to be the maximum size which i think is 100 pixels by 100 if i remeber correctly, so does anyone have any instructions , thanks

[TheJANG]

Image -> Image Size...

Then set your width & height. By default it will keep the original aspect ratio (ratio between width & height), which will prevent any distortion of the image. Note that avatars do not need to be precisely 100x100, they just can't be more than 100 wide or 100 high.

If you want to force a non-square image to be square, uncheck "Constrain Proportions." If you want to cut a square image out of a non-square image, select the Marquee tool (it's the one on the far upper left of your left toolbar, looks like a dashed square), and hold down Shift while dragging across the image to make a perfectly square selection. Then select Image -> Crop. Finally, size the image to 100x100 with Image -> Image Size.

[rcdude]

thanks JANG i did it but its very blurry any idea, ive got it set a quality of 1 and 82 by 64 i think and its at 15.5 any higher even by one and it says it wont work, is it possible to make it clearer

[TheJANG]

Use Save for Web instead of the regular save. If you're doing it as a GIF file, use "adaptive" color, and just reduce the number of colors until the size is small enough (size shows up near the bottom of that window), but keeping good image quality. Don't change the quality setting for GIFs.

For that photo, you may actually want to use JPG instead, though, around 60% quality.

[rcdude]

done. thank for your help JANG, it looks alot better now , finnaly