I need help figuring out how to make my thumnails data size smaller so I can upload them. I already have them in jpeg format and they still are too big. So any help would be great. Thanks.

I wish I had an answer for you... I can make perfect, highquality thumbnails just fine, but every now and again, after doing the same thing I do every time, it tells me that the size is too big.. rather irritating if you ask me.

The more colors and shifts from one color to another the bigger the filesize. Try croping a portion of your image to create the thumb instead of using the whole picture. My bryce renders come out around 450meg. I use paintshop to open the file and resave and the size drops to 150meg. I can also control the jpg compression of the thumb or reduce from 32 bit to 24 or 16 bit color. Each step reduces the filesize a little bit.

The real question is, what are you using to make your thumbnails? Imo, you should use Irafnview. www.irfanview.com

Yeah I use photoshop 7 to touch up my pics. Maybe i will try to crop only a section. Thanx if you think of anything else please tell me. I think if more people saw the thumnails they would look at my pics more.

why dont you render them the size you need first?

Wildman, that is way too complicated =P. Just openem up in pshop (if you have it.) cut out a piece of your image (doesn't matter how big it is) but make it 200 in one direction or the other, Then go to image=>image size and scale the larger side down to 200. and slide the jpeg quality until it's under 15 kb.

Thanx SO MUCH! Please go check them out once i get them up

In PhotoShop 7 you can save for web. It lets you choose the quality and tells you the size of the file before you save it. I only recently started using this and it has made it so easy to save files in a reasonable size for the web, no guess work involved. Catlin

You can also use ImageReady to optimize your picture for the net... it's very useful

I seem to remember a cautionary note about Photoshop-generated thumbnails in the Upload instructions..but my brain ain't what it used to be. I've got an old Nagware utility called "Graphic Workshop Professional"..from Alchemy mindworks. I just use a thumbnail tool to create whatever size I want (I actually use 180x180..just to be safe..;)

In Photoshop; Make sure you didn't save the image with a thumbnail and/or icon attached. These attachments are non-standard image formats, only understood by Photoshop. Even if you did upload them, noone's browser could view them, so these have been disabled. If yoou want, go to "Edit>Preferences>File Handling>Images Previews>Never Save. AgentSmith

Thanks AS I didn't know about that one. 8) Catlin