Life is easier than Photoshop...

[EnchantedWind]

Bumping this since Google has officially failed me.

[Hyde]

Hm...I only know how to compress files through WinZip or ZipGenius.
This might help, though(although I'm not sure if that's what you meant):
Quickly compress PNG images - Neil Turner's blog

[EnchantedWind]

That IS what I'm looking for... but it doesn't compress enough I need something that can compress avatars less than 20 kb preferably *I wonder how on Earth the pros on Aarin can do it

[bella28385]

Try making it a GIF file.

[Hyde]

Hm...If it's something you make in Photoshop, the only thing I can recommend you to do is to use magnify when you're photoshoping, and then try and make everything smaller for that. Other than that, I don't think it's possible to compress .png images to less than 50kbs(for me at least).

[EnchantedWind]

Hmmm... does GIF files support transparency as well?

[Hyde]

According to Wikipedia:

"Raster file formats that support transparency include GIF, PNG, and TIFF, through either a transparent color or an alpha channel."

Buuut. Transparency in .png files might show up as gray in IE.

[EnchantedWind]

Bella, you're a genius! *glomps you a thousand times and throws thousands of BL material onto you*

[limedragon]

You can reduce the file size by using the "save for web" option ^____^

If you have IE6 then the transparency of .png will be gray.