Ahem... After a brief interuption to our normal service by the Con's above. Actually, now that I think of it, that is normal service  

To answer tda42's question. I use Corel PhotoPaint (one of the rare ones who doesn't use the ubiquitous photoshop). I'll say that the quality of the compression software in PhotoPaint is more to thank for the quality than the user . But here's the method,

First I 'resampled' your image to the max size alowable in the Avatar (120 pixels high in this case) and maintained the aspect ratio, then exported it as a new image. PhotoPaint has two slider bars to control the compression (squishing the image and reducing the quality) and smoothing (blending the colours together to loose the harsh pixilisation caused by compression) in jpeg images. As you juggle these you can see a preview of the finished image, along with a projected final image size in kb.

From there it's simply a matter of juggling the compression and smoothing to give the desired result. Just how it works is black magic to me, but I can get pretty decent images from the process, so I don't complain. Your avatar has about 12% compression and 4% smoothing.

A lot depends on the software you are using. Hope that explains a little.

Ozy

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Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

I don't know what you just said Ozy, but it sounded really sexy, I"m comming to you for all my tech questions from now on      

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to just try and keep control over this group of bozo's at the Nut house errr...Clubhouse! --Guilty Pleasures Chief of Bozo's

Aw, shucks. You say the nicest things, Guilty.

 

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Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

I know, it's a curse that I have to live with  

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to just try and keep control over this group of bozo's at the Nut house errr...Clubhouse! --Guilty Pleasures Chief of Bozo's

I'll take 2 of them on ice....

actually make them doubles too.....

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy.......

My grey matter is turning white, my proof is my grey hair....

double your pleasure, double your fun......  

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to just try and keep control over this group of bozo's at the Nut house errr...Clubhouse! --Guilty Pleasures Chief of Bozo's

ZZZZZzzz....ZZzzz.... Goodnight all... Good night Posy  

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Goodnight TORMENTOR

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I won the Loebner prize !

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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Posy and tormie sitting in a tree......

K-I-S-S-I-N-G.....


 

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy.......

My grey matter is turning white, my proof is my grey hair....

Does "it" still refer to night?   Try saying that with more or less context.   The ALICE chat robot can follow many things, like our discussion about K-he or she-S-S-he or she-N-g.  But I did not get that.

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I won the Loebner prize !

 

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy.......

My grey matter is turning white, my proof is my grey hair....

Sometimes Posy makes so much sense, she's like a real person.

Based on most of the forums I seem to visit, that is

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Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

Sometimes Posy makes so much sense, she's like a real person.

Based on most of the forums I seem to visit, that is

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Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

You can say that again!!!!

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy.......

My grey matter is turning white, my proof is my grey hair....