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This is purely for my benefit but read from it what you will. Below are two copies of the same photo, the first hosted on Photobucket and the second on Fotango.
They took about the same time to upload, but I preferthe Fotango site layout. Still, the proof of the pudding.....
Comments on quality etc. would be very welcome.
They took about the same time to upload, but I preferthe Fotango site layout. Still, the proof of the pudding.....
Comments on quality etc. would be very welcome.
simpo two said:
Top one is much easier to see, but at 203Kb the filesize is twice as big as it needs to be. The Fotango one doen' tgive file size, just pixels dimensionss. Try 'Save for Web' if you have PS: you should be able to get the file under 100Kb!
Please excuse my ignorance, but what's wrong with a bigger file? I'm afraid I am a computer dinosoar and have very little knowledge of what goes on in the big grey box thingy!
Martin.
V6GTO said:
Please excuse my ignorance, but what's wrong with a bigger file? I'm afraid I am a computer dinosoar and have very little knowledge of what goes on in the big grey box thingy!
Digital cameras generally take files that are (generally) 750Kb - 2.5Mb depending on megapixels and various settings. As far as the web goes, you don't need a big file for 'quality' as you're not printing it out. How many dpi is a monitor? Not many!
For posts on PH I usually resize the image to 700 pixels wide, sharpen it, then compress it (JPG) to give me a decently modest filesize. Obviously if you compress it too much the image does get rough, but 80-100Kb is usually achievable. You can see the file size of an image by right-clicking and looking at Properties.
If you don't have a program that allows you to do this with control, XP has a resize function (Right click/resize image) which, whilst not perfect, is easy to use and quick.
Dial-up users can wait up to 5 minutes to download 1Mb - which means that to see your picture, they'd have to sit there waiting for a whole minute. So unless they're really keen to look, they won't bother. Standard broadband will take about 5 seconds to do the same thing, which is OK of course, but it still just seems a waste of cyberspace.
It's good to know what goes on under an image for when filesize IS important, like building websites.
If you really can't figure it out, don't be deterred, post anyway.
Hope this helps!
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