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Little did the hippies know, their flask was hiding a dark secret
thats better...
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Reverend Dan,
Sat 24 Aug 2002, 15:37,
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thatis rather large. but it did appeal to my evil plans for world domination sense. yay for that!
some handy hints for reducing size: turn dithering off; make it about 20% lossy (or as much as you can handle without losing too much quality); reduce image size (dimensions) slighty; reduce number of colours (again, as few as you can get away with. I've just got your image down to 133k with no noticable loss in quality and without reducing size...[edit: 104k with width of 280px, which it would need to be should it be frontpaged.] [second edit: also also, if you really are very pleased with the original, and not so pleased with the smaller, you can always do a clicky for bigger...]
(some handy hints for reducing size: turn dithering off; make it about 20% lossy (or as much as you can handle without losing too much quality); reduce image size (dimensions) slighty; reduce number of colours (again, as few as you can get away with. I've just got your image down to 133k with no noticable loss in quality and without reducing size...[edit: 104k with width of 280px, which it would need to be should it be frontpaged.] [second edit: also also, if you really are very pleased with the original, and not so pleased with the smaller, you can always do a clicky for bigger...]
freshlegs,
Sat 24 Aug 2002, 15:44,
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thats what you getfor not using flash for its intended purpose.....
( Reverend Dan,
Sat 24 Aug 2002, 15:49,
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and what is flash's intended purpose?i thought it was for doing stoopid animations and office timewasters
NB: if you say "custom scrollbars" or "splash screens" i will be very cross
(NB: if you say "custom scrollbars" or "splash screens" i will be very cross
spacefish bong!,
Sat 24 Aug 2002, 15:54,
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not that botheredabout front page but its good to get the practise in i spose
( Reverend Dan,
Sat 24 Aug 2002, 15:56,
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