guilo52 opened this issue on Jul 18, 2003 ยท 13 posts
guilo52 posted Fri, 18 July 2003 at 9:04 PM
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.
brholte posted Fri, 18 July 2003 at 9:54 PM
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.
electroglyph posted Fri, 18 July 2003 at 9:56 PM
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.
AgentSmith posted Fri, 18 July 2003 at 10:00 PM
The real question is, what are you using to make your thumbnails? Imo, you should use Irafnview. www.irfanview.com
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guilo52 posted Fri, 18 July 2003 at 10:02 PM
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.
wildman2 posted Fri, 18 July 2003 at 10:59 PM
why dont you render them the size you need first?
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Ornlu posted Fri, 18 July 2003 at 11:05 PM
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.
guilo52 posted Fri, 18 July 2003 at 11:10 PM
Thanx SO MUCH! Please go check them out once i get them up
catlin_mc posted Sat, 19 July 2003 at 9:19 AM
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
Euxeb007 posted Sat, 19 July 2003 at 11:48 AM
You can also use ImageReady to optimize your picture for the net... it's very useful
pakled posted Sat, 19 July 2003 at 1:05 PM
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..;)
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AgentSmith posted Sat, 19 July 2003 at 2:56 PM
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
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catlin_mc posted Sun, 20 July 2003 at 12:48 PM
Thanks AS I didn't know about that one. 8) Catlin