my pics are 800kb->1mb!!!

[Serpian]

I\'m sure this has been discussed before, but to avoid raising dead topics, I create my own. All the pictures of my miniatures are 800kb to over 1 mega! how am I supposed to make them down to 100kb? make them .bit? Please help. Thank you.

 

[Ysilne]

Resize the pics with Photoshop/Gimp/whatever...
All my pics are usually exactly the right size, I use the \"save for web\" option in photoshop.

 

[nick_t]

don\'t resize them! go to www.photobucket.com and make an account. they will host your photos and istead of uploading your pic to CMON.com, just hotlink it to the url at Photobucket.com

[edit: still try to keep your pics at least under 200kb]

 

[Fizl]

Just to add my 5p worth, I reckon that you shouldn\'t put pictures up of 800k +. Not everyone is on broadband or cable, and they will either not look, or you may get broken link reports if it takes too long to open.

Shaz

 

[Ysilne]

Changing the compression/size still makes good pics, and is more respectful for those with low-connections...

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by nick_t
don\'t resize them! go to www.photobucket.com and make an account. they will host your photos and istead of uploading your pic to CMON.com, just hotlink it to the url at Photobucket.com

Do not do this!
This will seriously degrade the amount of time taken to load the picture. If the viewer(s) is/are on Dial up connection that will mean that many people will junk the picture due to the exessive amount of time taken to load.
It\'s also wasting Collminiornot\'s bandwidth.

 

[nick_t]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach

Originally posted by nick_t
don\'t resize them! go to www.photobucket.com and make an account. they will host your photos and istead of uploading your pic to CMON.com, just hotlink it to the url at Photobucket.com

Do not do this!
This will seriously degrade the amount of time taken to load the picture. If the viewer(s) is/are on Dial up connection that will mean that many people will junk the picture due to the exessive amount of time taken to load.
It\'s also wasting Collminiornot\'s bandwidth.

i totally agree that 1 mb is too large for a pic but if you want to make the pic slightly larger (150kb - 200kb) it\'s a good way to do it.

 

[donga666]

100k is more than enough for any image you want to display on CMON! You\'re just gonna shoot yourself in the foot if you use larger images - people will just click onto the next image if yours takes too long to load! Just crop down to the right size and JPEG down using \'Save for web\'.

 

[KatieG]

My pictures are only ever this big when they come directly from my camera. Several things to remember. First, you have to resize the picture to CMoN\'s specifications anyways, no wider than 600 pixels. So take your raw picture, crop out any extraneous background (also, try not to have crap in your background, but take pics against white paper or something, smaller filesize) and resize it so its 600 pixels wide X whatever. This should already get you down to 200kb or less from your original file size. Then save as: filetype jpeg. In my version of photoshop, it shows you the filesize it would be if you saved it at say 10 (least compression) and usually going down to 7 or 8 usually gets it under 100kb for me. I have to go down as low as 4 or 5 though for composite pictures (pictures where I have combined several pics of the same mini). Remember, that 1 meg filesize has a lot more info than is going to matter for the web. Unless you want to see your mini at 5X actual size and larger than your actual monitor! (at least for those of us on laptops with 15\" monitors). And if you save it as a new file, you can still always go back to the old file if you find the quality has really deteriorated.
--Katie G.

 

[finn17]

Right...

Resize them to fit, or suffer the consequences.

I cancel any image that does not load in the time it takes me to lift my eyes from the keyboard to the screen. I simply can\'t be bothered. There is a perfectly good hosting service here that is used by Slayer sword winners etc. My life is too precious to waste, waiting for some image to load, that is 99% certain to be a pile of pants.

Feel free to do otherwise of course, but it wont be getting my vote, or that of many of the regulars..

 

[Spacemunkie]

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