Forum: Fractals


Subject: thumbs

Fobialic opened this issue on Jan 01, 2004 ยท 4 posts


Rykk posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 10:52 PM

Hi! Have you checked the amount of compression being applied to the jpeg thumbs? If its set at a really high percentage it might be the cause of your colors being off or blurring. I, typically, set the compression with PSP on the big copy of my images at the lowest possible - 1% - and then look for the lowest possible compression that gets my thumbnails in under Renderosity's 15kb limit - usually around 10-15% or maybe around, say 25% if there are a lot of flames or if I apply the "sharpen" filter to the thumb. I usually start with a 1024x768 (my screen res) bmp generated by Ultrafractal and re-size it as an 800x600 jpeg with 1% compression, then re-size that to 200x150 and save as another jpeg with the minimum compression I can get away with. Hope this helps. Rick