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tandoc
June 10th, 2002, 01:55
i have this pic...

i'm using it on my site as the background, but its like 300kb - doesn't make a difference for me since i am on cable, but 56k users are screwed..

are there any programs that can compress it.. but not loose much quality?
guitarnerd
June 10th, 2002, 02:20
jpeg would be much smaller for that type of image. Also use photoshop just get a demo if you don't have it go to save for web under the file tab then just see what the lowest size you can get it without quality loss. Actually I am gonna take it and show you how small I can get it just cause I am bored
tandoc
June 10th, 2002, 02:21
ok - i do have photoshop - i'll try that.. thanx - what version?
guitarnerd
June 10th, 2002, 02:23
I have only used 6.0 and 7.0 and it is in both. Besides that I do not know but it should be in most of them
tandoc
June 10th, 2002, 02:24
ok - but its still kinda big - and is still poor quality
guitarnerd
June 10th, 2002, 02:28
Save as JPEG Medium at Medium...and quality 30 it is just under 90kb which is smaller but not a whole lot...

You can try and blur it which I think would look cooler for a background and then take out even more quality it won't be noticable then and I think it looks cool anyway BTW did you create that it is impressive
tandoc
June 10th, 2002, 02:33
me create that? hahahaha.. you crack me up.. well, i made the html and header pic - but thats all.. i didn't make the background\

i dunno if this makes a difference... but i just made a preloader so it preloads everything before you actually go into the site - so the pic is still about 181kb i think
guitarnerd
June 10th, 2002, 02:36
Well if you do what I say without the blur the difference isn't much and you save almost 100kb. YOu have to ask yourself is it better to watch a pre-loader or an image load?
bigperm
June 10th, 2002, 05:52
I got the image down to 55k, and it still looks good.

http://tanklin.com/img/wallpaper2.gif
tandoc
June 10th, 2002, 06:52
omg.. ty sooo much!
guitarnerd
June 10th, 2002, 15:56
Originally posted by bigperm
I got the image down to 55k, and it still looks good.

http://tanklin.com/img/wallpaper2.gif
That doesn't look good at all
Ashed
June 11th, 2002, 00:02
Looks good enough for 55k. :)
guitarnerd
June 11th, 2002, 00:55
Originally posted by GRiN
Looks good enough for 55k. :)
Sorry it does look pretty good... it was because IE 6.0 resizes an image for to fit in your browser but yeah it looks good
bigperm
June 11th, 2002, 02:53
The magic of fireworks.
agnieszka
June 11th, 2002, 11:44
try:

http://www.spinwave.com/crunchers.html

online image crunching... i though i had some small files until i sent it thru this - didn't make the quality do down too much either...

ag.
w3exit
June 22nd, 2002, 13:06
reduce the number of colors used from 256->128->64->32 and increase dithering