NationStates Jolt Archive

I'm trying to create a custom flag, but it says my file is too big, and I can't get it small enough. I made it in photoshop, reduced it to the lowest possible quality, and made it 95x71 to comply with the size requirements. However, the file is still 11.5 KB, and it says the picture has to be 10 KB. The only other thing I could think of was to reduce the size of the image, but I had to make it 30x22 to get below 10 KB, which is way to small to actually see the picture. I had it at a slightly larger size (even though it was still way too small) and got it to be 9.6 KB, but when I uploaded the picture, NS still said that it exceeded the 10 KB maximum file size. I could make it a smaller file by converting it to gif, but NS says the picture has to be in jpeg. Does anyone know how to shrink the file size so that I can use the picture?

Here is the file in case anyone can fix it:

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/1173/twinflames1024es5.jpg

Actually. Post the orriginal file here and when i get back to the computer at home i can make the file size smaller by bringing into Photoshop.

Here you go. :)

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e283/Slippery__Jim/flag.jpg

Hope that's ok.

yeah that's fine, thanks! How did you do that?

Probably reduced the number of colors or increased jpg compression.

yeah that's fine, thanks! How did you do that?

I just put it through some photo editing software. What it did, I don't know. :p