How to Decrease Image Size Without Decreasing Image Scale

[DaveMan1000]

To be specific, I'm trying to create a 100x100px scale image and have it be less than 20kb in size.

For a new Avatar on Deviantart.

The best I can do is 26kb, but it's too big for the site to accept.

Is there any way I can decrease the image size without decresing the scale?

Can someone give me some help with this?

[D Fosse]

Crank up the jpeg compression level.

[JJMack]

Are you using save for web and stripping all meta data. 100px x 100px x 8bit woud be 30K without any compression.  If you use save for web to save  Jpeg quality 10 and strip all meta data Is would think any 100px by 100px image would save under 20KB otherwise set a lower quality setting. 100x100 quality 10 max noise come in ar 26KB. the 100x100 imafs savec as 8kb quality 10.

[DaveMan1000 · Accepted solution]

Resolved

Was working with PNG and didn't think to switch to JPEG