Re-sizeing photos

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soupyjnr

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Hi there

I just bought the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Version 10. I have made a few images (for a bebo skin), but because they are so big (16.2 KB, 41.9 KB) I cant upload them

Do you know any way of making them take up less KB's?

Thanks
 
.PNG is actually a lossless format, I think he meant to say .JPG, or .GIF depending on what you're uploading to. If you open your image with Photoshop and save as a jpeg, it'll give you a quality bar that you can move from 1 to 12; 12 being the highest quality, 1 being the smallest file.

Also, 16kb is a very small image file.
 
fortyways said:
.PNG is actually a lossless format, I think he meant to say .JPG, or .GIF depending on what you're uploading to. If you open your image with Photoshop and save as a jpeg, it'll give you a quality bar that you can move from 1 to 12; 12 being the highest quality, 1 being the smallest file.

Also, 16kb is a very small image file.
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Actually, I meant png. That's all I use when I make an image and upload it. It's great quality and a small file.
 
I searched out some Bebo skins and they were around the 80k mark in JPEG form, so I don't know what is causing your problem but your file size does'nt seem over big.
 
Yes the quality bar, i managed to do mine and i used photoshop CS2(save as jpeg) but i also used CorelDraw12 (export jpeg), but i cant remember what one i used in what order.

Also try when opening and chosing your page size to drop the resolution.

Heres mine no probs....

http://www.bebo.com/pip1011261

PM me your email if you want my templates to play with....they might help you.
 
Well, that's fantastic that you like to use png, but regardless of your personal opinion png is a large, lossless file type and jpeg is universally and undeniably accepted as the best quality to size ratio.

So don't give out bad advice based on your own quirks.
 
fortyways said:
Well, that's fantastic that you like to use png, but regardless of your personal opinion png is a large, lossless file type and jpeg is universally and undeniably accepted as the best quality to size ratio.

So don't give out bad advice based on your own quirks.
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I am trying to be helpful. What do you mean by "large?" :confused: PNGs are small. Being lossless can't hurt anything, it's just a way of compression and a very good one at that. For instance, Mp3 is a lossless format and they have become the standard for things such as portable audio. If you want to compress a file to be less than 50kb I would say you are probably better off using lossless (png) other than lossy (jpeg) because the lossless format (png) can manage a smaller size with good quality. In order to make a lossy format (jpeg) have a very small size you will need quite low quality. For instance, when I made my old avatar in Photoshop I first tried saving it in jpeg and it had to be HORRIBLE quality just to work on CF. Then I saved it as png and it came out EXACTLY like it looked in Photoshop and the file size was more than small enough to work on CF.

PS: I would really think that that file size would be small enough. How big is the image?


~Jordan
 
JordanII said:
I am trying to be helpful. What do you mean by "large?" :confused: PNGs are small. Being lossless can't hurt anything, it's just a way of compression and a very good one at that. For instance, Mp3 is a lossless format and they have become the standard for things such as portable audio. If you want to compress a file to be less than 50kb I would say you are probably better off using lossless (png) other than lossy (jpeg) because the lossless format (png) can manage a smaller size with good quality. In order to make a lossy format (jpeg) have a very small size you will need quite low quality. For instance, when I made my old avatar in Photoshop I first tried saving it in jpeg and it had to be HORRIBLE quality just to work on CF. Then I saved it as png and it came out EXACTLY like it looked in Photoshop and the file size was more than small enough to work on CF.

PS: I would really think that that file size would be small enough. How big is the image?


~Jordan
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Have you ever tried to make a Bebo skin........

There is a dimensional requirement and also a file size requirement.

Im not 100% sure but I think it must be a .jpeg file, but for sure you will lose quality. But thanks for the info as I always thought png to be just another annoying, boring format.
 
pip1011261 said:
Have you ever tried to make a Bebo skin........

There is a dimensional requirement and also a file size requirement.

Im not 100% sure but I think it must be a .jpeg file, but for sure you will lose quality. But thanks for the info as I always thought png to be just another annoying, boring format.
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No, I haven't ever made a Bebo skin, I'm just trying to help make the file size samller whisle maintaining quality.
 
Jordan,

In re-reading my post it comes off a little more sarcastic than I meant it to be, but what I was trying to say was:

Rather than asking if he "made sure" it was .png, you could have pointed out that you prefer that format. JPEG is however, the standard, and generally more compact.

On a side note, mp3 is a lossy format.
 
fortyways said:
Jordan,

In re-reading my post it comes off a little more sarcastic than I meant it to be, but what I was trying to say was:

Rather than asking if he "made sure" it was .png, you could have pointed out that you prefer that format. JPEG is however, the standard, and generally more compact.

On a side note, mp3 is a lossy format.
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OK, about being more compact, I think it really depends on the size of the image. I just looked in Wikipedian and, yes Mp3 is a lossy format, but I heard from another source that it was lossless. Oh well.
 
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