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# These ought to be tiny.
Save them as .gifs instead of jpegs, if you can.
(, Sun 9 Sep 2007, 2:26, archived)
# Hm.
I'll make the next one a gif and see if it helps. Thanks for the advice.
(, Sun 9 Sep 2007, 2:28, archived)
# It'll be better quality too
(, Sun 9 Sep 2007, 2:32, archived)
# And no one thought to tell me this
When I posted the FIRST one? :P

Thanks anyway, I'll definitely be GIFing from now on if that's the case.
(, Sun 9 Sep 2007, 2:37, archived)
# With simple colours like the ones you find in paint,
you can save as a gif.

This isn't the case with more complicated images, like photographs.

See here: www.lemony.co.uk/optimisation.htm
(, Sun 9 Sep 2007, 2:38, archived)
# I still always hesitate to open that site because the name
is so much like lemonparty
(, Sun 9 Sep 2007, 4:38, archived)
# it is exactly like lemonparty
;)
(, Sun 9 Sep 2007, 4:45, archived)
# size nazism is good
sometimes...

why gif?
why not png which is even smaller in this case?
why bother to gain a few kB?

it's not about size, it's about losing image details

biatches
(, Sun 9 Sep 2007, 6:16, archived)
# if you've made something in paint
which doesn't have anything copypasted from an external source, you won't lose any details saving it as a gif, cos it uses the 16 default palette colours for optimisation. you would lose more details saving it as a jpeg

the size difference between png and gif would be negligable.

it's always good to have smaller image sizes to save on bandwidth because: a) some people have slow connections (people do still use dial-up) and b) some people have limited bandwidth, and even though it's only a few kB, if everyone was making big images, and with a few reloads of the page it all adds up.

and what it is about, it the joke anyway, not the image details.
(, Sun 9 Sep 2007, 7:34, archived)