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daimyo
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Add Bitmaps to Picture Gallery
#5272403 - 02/07/06 06:50 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Any chance of getting .bmp in there? .jpg, .gif, and .png are okay, but why not .bmp?
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Re: Add Bitmaps to Picture Gallery [Re: daimyo]
#5272424 - 02/07/06 07:22 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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i may be wrong bu tthe reason i would assume is that .bmp uses alot more bytes than a jpg or any other. for example i just drew a line in paint saved it as .bmp and it was 93kb but as jpg it was 3.5kb. get my drift.
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Re: Add Bitmaps to Picture Gallery [Re: daimyo]
#5272466 - 02/07/06 07:46 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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PNG is a lossless encoding algorythm. It retains all the quality of BMP, but at a reduced filesize. An analogy would be FLAC and WAV.
Even though PNG isn't efficient for high-complexity images like photographs, it's still much, much more efficient than BMP.
Why do you want to upload bitmaps? It wastes space and bandwidth.
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Re: Add Bitmaps to Picture Gallery [Re: OJK]
#5272474 - 02/07/06 07:48 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Odiumjunkie said: It wastes space and bandwidth.
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daimyo
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Re: Add Bitmaps to Picture Gallery [Re: OJK]
#5272524 - 02/07/06 08:13 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Odiumjunkie said: Why do you want to upload bitmaps?
Same reason as the other types. To display/share them.
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Odiumjunkie said: It wastes space and bandwidth.
The upload limit would still apply. I can waste just as much space and bandwith with the other types
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Re: Add Bitmaps to Picture Gallery [Re: daimyo]
#5272541 - 02/07/06 08:24 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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...but there's basically zero point. Just because the shroomery gives people bandwidth for free doesn't mean we should waste it needlessly. Use PNG instead - identical image, identical experience, identical sharing, less bandwidth used. You spend less time uploading, people spend less time downloading, the server costs are slightly reduced. Everybody wins.
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Re: Add Bitmaps to Picture Gallery [Re: OJK]
#5272563 - 02/07/06 08:31 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Tell me how to convert some animated bitmaps and I'm all for it.
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Re: Add Bitmaps to Picture Gallery [Re: OJK]
#5272565 - 02/07/06 08:32 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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PNG [yousendit.com] [2.39mB]
BMP [yousendit.com] [5.49.mB]
*Identical* photos, one is more than twice the size of the other. I could have made the PNG even smaller if I'd used a higher compression rate.
Where's the need for BMP?
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Re: Add Bitmaps to Picture Gallery [Re: daimyo]
#5272569 - 02/07/06 08:35 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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"animated bitmaps" - what are you talking about?
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daimyo
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Re: Add Bitmaps to Picture Gallery [Re: OJK]
#5272583 - 02/07/06 08:43 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nevermind, I was wrong. Has nothing to do with the image, something else is animating them. My apologies.
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