cybercrash opened this issue on Jun 27, 2000 ยท 6 posts
cybercrash posted Tue, 27 June 2000 at 4:28 AM
Attached Link: http://www.geocities.com/cyber_crash.geo
Yo, I'm new here, just uploaded some of my work in the art gallery. Check it out and tell me what u people think of it.
Art posted Tue, 27 June 2000 at 6:01 PM
Uh...Cyber, Welcome to the Forum! A word of advice. Your images are too large and take way too long for someone to view them unless they have a lot of patience. I'm connected via cable modem and they still took forever to load. If they seem to load fine for you, it's more likely because you are seeing them load in locally or from your computer. Needless to say a person on a 56k modem is not going to sit there and wait several minutes for one image to load. I'd recommend 648x480 or 800x600. Good luck either way and again welcome! - Art -
bonestructure posted Tue, 27 June 2000 at 11:20 PM
welcome to the asylum...errr, renderosity
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cybercrash posted Wed, 28 June 2000 at 12:41 AM
I know they're big. But they're (almost) never bigger than 350kb and 1152*864 is a nice resolution cause it's useable as a wallpaper on most resolutions if u stretch/scale it.
Art posted Wed, 28 June 2000 at 5:26 AM
Cybercrash, I don't know why this has happened, but I suspect Renderosity (or their server) as the culprit. This morning I revisited your site and the images loaded completely in a matter of seconds (2-5)!! I apologize about my earlier comment. Bear in mind that this sizes may still appear somewhat large for a lot of people. BTW, Some very creative images with great use of layers and compositing!! Nicely done! - Art -
Ironbear posted Tue, 04 July 2000 at 12:21 PM
Hello there. Btw, Welcome to both Renderosity and the Forum. With that said, I'm afraid that I'm another large image culprit. One of the things that I do to cut down image size is to go ahead and render at 920x760 or larger, then export as psd. Then when I take them into photoshop to add the title and copyright, I run a sharpen filter, reduce by 70% and check the image size and check to see if I lost any important detail. If not, and it's still big, I shrink it in small increments 'till I think it works. Keep a hand near the undo, but a lot of the time the detail lost by reduction is so small it wouldn't have been noticed anyway. If its to sharp after all that, I run a smart blur filter, verrrry carefully. Then flatten and post it. That said, I'm going to toddle off and take a look at your gallery. I'm DSL'd, big images don't scare me... Later.
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