I recently started an art shop on HEE, can someone please give me some tips on keeping image quality while staying with in the 100K file size for horse avatars, all my pieces seem considerably pixelated :/

some examples:

There are a few things you can do to help. One is make sure you do a good job on cutting out a horse. The second is work on smaller canvas size, so really if it's only for a horse avatar, work on canvases around 1000x1000-1500. Another thing is to save images as Jpgs because while the image quality is like tenths less good, the fe sizes are smaller and easier to compress

I agree with Tasi! A good cut out of the horse etc. Many artists do it different ways, I personally work on 2500x2000 and make the horse smaller on the image, I then resize 500x500 on my app (ibisPaintX), and sharpen up the whole image (its a filter on the app I use) then go online to a compressor (there is a few I use)

so this one for example, this is a 2500x2000 canvas, as you can see the horse doesn't take up the whole image.

After I've made the horse on the 500x500, I use the sharpener tool, run it through a compressor and this is what I have:

again, it's all trial and error at what works for you, but if that doesn't make ANY sense please PM me LOL

If you're working with Photoshop, you should use the File -> Export -> Save for web (Legacy) option to save your images. It gives you a menu where you can customize what file size you want and allows you a few tweaks with the quality.

ok, thank you all! I'll try that

I do a similar thing to Zomb.

Depending on what I'm working on I multiply the image size by 3

For example if I'm doing a stable banner the normal size is 669 x 150 but I will work on 2007 x 450 and then resize it later on and export that size.

Thanks! I just ran into this problem and now it's solved!