Avatar help. cant get file small enough

[trichnut]

here are the 2 pics im working with and im able to make them small no problem but when it comes to bringing down the quality of the picture when i save it the smallest i can make them are about 14kb im using photoshop to do this small task and i just cant figure out how to do it right. can any of you help me with this. thanks

 

[SmokinMom]

I am photo-sizing challanged so what I have always done is upload to photobucket then resize them there. Works like a charm.

 

[trichnut]

just tried that and it still says the file is to big

 

[trichnut]

thanks olto
what prog did you use to do it?