Make the image below 50Kb in sizeas some people have capped bandwith usage.
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Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous,
Tue 10 Jun 2008, 13:37,
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^thisif you are doing this in photoshop, use the save for web facility to do it. for gimp, paint and others, I'm not sure, anyone?
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theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>,
Tue 10 Jun 2008, 13:39,
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for examplecompare yours with
which is about 10k as opposed to 70k without any real loss of quality. using the gimp, all i did was when i saved it as a jpg, i checked the "preview in image window" box and lowered the quality as far as it went without mucking up the image. you can do much the same in photoshop with "save for web", apparently.
paint's jpg and gif and png optimisations suck. i'd use gimp if i were you.
this is really what people are (or should be) complainig about with file sizes -- they should be as small as possible, not kept to some mythical 50k "limit". this picture is fine at 10k, so it should be posted at 10k and 25k shuold make people annoyed. some pictures look terrible at 50k and should be posted at 150k instead. it's all about optimising as much as possible.
edit: but always make sure you keep a pristine quality copy (bmp, or psd, or xcf, or whatever) of any file, too. each time you resave a jpg you lose quality, even if you set it to maximum.
(which is about 10k as opposed to 70k without any real loss of quality. using the gimp, all i did was when i saved it as a jpg, i checked the "preview in image window" box and lowered the quality as far as it went without mucking up the image. you can do much the same in photoshop with "save for web", apparently.
paint's jpg and gif and png optimisations suck. i'd use gimp if i were you.
this is really what people are (or should be) complainig about with file sizes -- they should be as small as possible, not kept to some mythical 50k "limit". this picture is fine at 10k, so it should be posted at 10k and 25k shuold make people annoyed. some pictures look terrible at 50k and should be posted at 150k instead. it's all about optimising as much as possible.
edit: but always make sure you keep a pristine quality copy (bmp, or psd, or xcf, or whatever) of any file, too. each time you resave a jpg you lose quality, even if you set it to maximum.
boris the spider,
Tue 10 Jun 2008, 13:48,
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