dattodude, Im the dodgy guy smart ass

YO people all youve gotta do is download a free program (usually the best software is free) like irfanview.

then install it and tell it to associate with 'images only'. then open your .jpg or .bmp or .gif or .tiff or whatever format your avatar may be in and then select (from the menu at the top) Image then Resize. (or press CTRL-R instead)
Set your size for datto1200.com compliance and then choose File and Save As.
change the file type to JPG and then you can move the Quality meter down to its lowest possible point, while retaining an ok looking avatar. you can save it a few times with different quality settings (and different filenames) and find the best looking one to use.

here's a direct link to the irfanview installer
hope this helps out

hey dattodude, which program did you use to make your avatar? ive been inspired to make a gif

Your ute photo looks great.. much better than the previous car one. It was real grainy. There is some skill to getting it right.

I'm not so sure about the fella in the photo.. he looks a bit dodgy

Good one..
Chris!

oh and nice new avatar yajokn lol

actually chris that is a really good point. i spose you get over the avatar pretty quickly after you have seen it once..

Check it out dattodude, I took your advise and came up with a funny one.

I think I'd rather keep my poor image and save the time downloading

30kb...are you kidding? Every page read would be 400kB. Lets consider modem people for a moment..4kB/sec ..100seconds for the page to load...wow what fun that would be...

It's all in the colour depth and JPG quality.

Cheers,
Chris

Ya tellin me about poor quality images.
Take a look at this one.

<----------------- Makin me look bad!