help/advice

Wednesday, July 23, 2003 by No Rules | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

i'd like 2 know how 2 make the file size on my walls without loosing the quality, i use bryce on my renderings.

denny
No Rules
Reply #1 Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:02 AM
oops, make the file size smaller,
MikeB314
Reply #2 Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:03 AM
I'm not a wallpaper artist myself, but here's what I would do. After you've rendered your image, open it up in Photoshop (or some graphics editor), save it as a JPG, and adjust the image quality setting until you find a good balance of quality and file size.
DavidK
Reply #3 Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:11 AM

That's basically it. Like Mike said if you use a graphics editor like PS or Paint Shop Pro you can reduce the file size considerably without visible image loss. Different colors allow for more compression too. You might find a predominantly red or orange wall will handle a higher compression setting than a predominantly blue or green one. Emperiment with the compression settings. An average 1280 x 1024 wall should not need to be larger than about 500k to look good. BMP's will always be a lot larger but they zip well so you could experimant with zip compressions too if you like to post bmp's.

e-bros
Reply #4 Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:12 AM
We upload .bmp files in the zips. Hmm...do most folks prefer the .jpg format for their desktop walls? It's kinda hard deciding on sacrificing clarity for filesize.
No Rules
Reply #5 Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:31 AM
thanks 4 u'r advice mike, and david. i've been uploading .bmp because i thought we were supposed 2, i'll b uploading .jpg from now on.

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