i know i asked this before, on how to post a Big Thumbnail, so my question is where is "Save To The Web" Option on Renderosity? Is it in the Upload column when your trying to add a thumbnail? Signed - Alpha9992004

No, it's in Photoshop under the File Menu - Save For Web.

Where's Photoshop Gallery? What??? i'm so confused....Explain it very simple like. I'm not that bright Sam.

Oh, like actually IN the Photoshop Software? i use Photoshop SC2. i can try that.......

The "Save For Web" option (under the file menu in Photoshop) will allow you to save your graphic as a JPEG or GIF file. It gives you specific sontrols on how you want the file saved and compressed. It then saves the file to your desired location on your computer. That's different from actually uploading a file to one of the Galleries at Renderosity. Are you asking "how do I save my image in the correct format for uploading?" or are you asking "Now that I have my image (or thumbnail) created in the proper format on my hard drive, how do I upload it to the Renderosity Galleries?"

I know how to make JPEG's & GIFs in Photoshop. I already exported the file out of Poser 6 into a JPEG. Now i want to upload it. Galleries > Upload on Renderosity. As you can see with my gallery, i have no thumbnails except one. It has to be like 50 x 200 & be like 15 KB or smaller to post a thumbnail image on Renderosity. if i take that JPEG that i just exported out of Poser into Photoshop, i would have to reduce the Quilty of the image when exporting it back out of Photoshop as a JPEG because it has to be 15kb or under to post a thumbnail. which makes it really bad Quialty! So my question is......Why are people posting big Thumbnails with really good clear pictures? Signed - Alpha9992004

Not a Photoshop user, but... Photoshop puts additional data into images it saves, I think, which tends to inflate the file size without benefit to the quality. The Save For Web option omits all that stuff, thus giving a smaller file size for the same quality.

This is what I do when creating my thumbnails in Photoshop CS2.First make a selective square crop of your image,take that cropped image to Image>Image Size,resize to 200x200 pixels using Bicubic Sharper click OK & you have a thumbnail.You will probably find that the file size is still to big to use on Renderosity,so next take the thumbnail to File>Save For Web.At the bottom left of the image it will tell you the file size,Renderosity needs thumbs to be 15k or less,if yours is larger than that go to Quality in the top right,click on that to get a drop down slider that enables you to adjust the quality of the file down until it comes under the 15k limit.Save your thumb & your all set with a usable good quality thumbnail.

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I use the program easy thumnails it's freeware and easy to use http://www.fookes.com/products.php just take you're image and it converts to the size and kb you want

I render my images to disk in .psd format. Open them up in Adobe Photoshop 6.01, fix some glitches if needed, and then I use Save for Web, reducing image size and setting JPEG quality to a value that keeps the image just under 500K. Then I open up the saved JPEG in good old humble MS Paint. I pick a square area of interest, copy it, paste it into a new MS Paint image, resize and crop to 200x200px. Then I save it out as [imagename]THUMB.jpg The resulting thumb may not have the highest quality possible, but it is always under 15 K and works quite well. Works for me.

@svdl Whey do you save for web as a JPG and then crop it and save the thumbnail as a JPEG? Every time you re-save a JPEG you lose image quality. Why not just crop the desired area within the PSD file and save that for the web? You'd only have one generation of JPEG compression and your image quality should improve.

@Bobasaur: The full image is saved for Web in Photoshop, only one compression stage. And the MSPaint business, well, I guess it's a matter of habit - before I had Photoshop my only option was rendering to JPG in Poser, trying out the different quality settings until it was small enough to post here. A good thing that rendering to a new window allows saving multiple times! But you're right - I should lose the habit and start making the thumbnails in Photoshop.

I hope I didn't come across as being sharp. ;-)

No problem.

I learned a long time ago from some other artists here on the Forum (when I was a newbie I was so duh, I asked questions of people who turned out to be 'biggies', like Traveler), that jpg is a lossy format. It is best not to save your images out of Poser as a jpg. If you are going to post work the image or just add titling, you have already lost quality before you even start. It was suggested to me to save out as a tiff image (which preserves an alpha channel). I've not tried the save out as a photoshop file. I personally don't like photoshop and have used Paintshop instead for ages. Bring your tiff image in and do whatever you are going to do to your image (post work, hair painting,titling, ect). Then save out as a jpg for posting to the galleries. I use the cropping tool to cut out a tantilizing part of the image when in tiff, resize, put my logo on it, and use sharpen if the resized image has gotten a little fuzzy. Save this with a slightly different name from your main image. Some people put the word 'thumb' in the title for the thumbnail. On the gallery upload page, there is a dialogue box for both the image and the thumbnail. Browse and insert your pic and thumbnail, and away you go.