Avatar Picture Resizing

[Crank Cuffin]

Hope someone can help me out.

I am trying to upload a picture for my avatar.
I have changed my chosen picture to 80 x 80 pixels (using photoimpact which is very similar to photoshop elements) but it still weighs in at about 160kb.

How the blue-blazes do I change the size to make it acceptable as an avatar ie "The maximum size of your custom image is 80 by 80 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller)" ?

Thanks

 

[Nagual]

Is there an option in your editing software to alter the quality in any way? I know other softwares let you adjust various settings such as colour depth etc. Also what file format are you using?

Cheers,

 

[Crank Cuffin]

Thanks for the quick reply you may help me stop throwing the computer out the window!!
The file format is jpeg.
I'll have another look at the software and see if I can adjust the quality.

 

[Crank Cuffin]

Well, I don't know how I did it but there we are!!

About 4 hours of fiddling about but once I had started I couldn't give up.