there's not much to be helped about that.. mainly keep the colors similar, and a smaller size usually means more quality but less image. So trade off a bit, but like my sig, it's OK not the greatest, but makes for a decent sig. Though your's right now is pretty amazing. Though Userbars are only like 10kb with most colors I've used in PNG/JPG I think
And I decided to Go Big or Go Home and bought Billboard space ;P
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