Icon question for the techno geeks.

[pegkerr]

I want to make an icon by taking a picture of a plaque I received in my Christmas stocking today. However, LJ's icon factory, for some inexplicable reason, refused to work. I managed to make an icon of it with an outside icon maker, which I uploaded to my Greatest Journal account:



but LJ still refuses to upload it, saying that even though it is 100x`100, it is 56k, and they will only upload up icons that are 40k.

Can anyone help, perhaps with a program which will downsize it slightly so I can use it?

Thanks.

Edited to add: carnotite came through. Thanks, carnotite!

I love it. The words around the sides say Celebrate life
Give thanks
Light candles
Sail away
Take risks
Show mercy
Take walks
Share joy

The tree in the center, of course, represents the holy tree to me, and it has a heart hanging from the branch, which represents the heart of flesh. So this image of the holy tree is PERFECT for me, and reminds me of all the things I have been talking about in this journal. I am so happy to have this picture as an icon.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

If it's a JPEG, what you need to do is re-save it at a higher compression level / lower quality level. Any program that manipulates JPEGs should be able to do this; on Windows I'd recommend the free Irfanview, but I seem to remember you're on a Mac. I believe one of the standard system tools will do this, but I dunno which one.

Or send it to me and I'll fix it up, though probably not until tomorrow (we're outa here in half an hour).

[carnotite.livejournal.com]

This is ~11k:

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

carnotite came through for me. Thanks! Merry Christmas!

[folk.livejournal.com]

How gorgeous, Peg!

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's _gorgeous._ And v fitting!