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the_psychonaut
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how to reduce file size?
#5439389 - 03/24/06 07:50 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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i have a bunch of drawings that id like some opinions on, as i might want to make one an elaborate tattoo. but they are too big of files to load, please help
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Blastrid
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do you have any graphic editor programs on your computer? Photoshop, or something like that?
if not, do a google search for 'image resize' and either use one online or download the program...
you could also try uploading it as a file, rather than a picture. sometimes attachement limits are bigger.
how big is it exactly? memory, dimensions...
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kotik
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Re: how to reduce file size? [Re: Blastrid]
#5440423 - 03/25/06 07:52 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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for photos and images with many colors (thousands+) save as JPEG, and make sure you dont save it as 100% quality, there should be a setting, reduce to 80 or 60.
for graphics with hundreds of colors, use GIF.
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OJK
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Re: how to reduce file size? [Re: kotik]
#5440433 - 03/25/06 08:04 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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PNG beats the hell out of GIF
I hate GIF, apart from when it comes to small animations. There was a PNG based animation standard, but it was never supported widely enough to be useful.
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kotik
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Re: how to reduce file size? [Re: OJK]
#5443285 - 03/26/06 04:49 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
PNG beats the hell out of GIF
amen! but until IE truly supports png (they claim to in IE7) its still not a great option.
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OJK
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Re: how to reduce file size? [Re: kotik]
#5443432 - 03/26/06 07:53 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Does IE6 claim to not support PNG?
The test images at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG all work fine for me in IE6.
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kotik
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Re: how to reduce file size? [Re: OJK]
#5444608 - 03/26/06 04:54 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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the key word being "truly"
while IE supports PNG-8, it does not support PNG24 images, or png with an alpha channel (while firefox does). Also, the way in which IE handles the PNG information (memory wise) is disgusting. Im a techie, so its my domain.
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