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You've seen Durandal's mathematical equations, now feast your eyes on the powaaaaar of png24 transparency:

Outer glow example



Gradiant example



Drop shadow example



Drop-shadowed version of my avatar, featuring the lovely Akiha Tohno

If you use IE, you're out of luck

But damnit, whenever I try and save a PNG-24 avatar, it's like 20 freaking kb...

DPDarkPrimus wrote:But damnit, whenever I try and save a PNG-24 avatar, it's like 20 freaking kb...

How many colors did it have before you saved it? Did it have transparency before?

1) No more than 150.

2) I made it with a transparent BG, but hadn't saved it yet.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:1) No more than 150.

2) I made it with a transparent BG, but hadn't saved it yet.

Try using the optimizer to save the image. Sometimes it helps. -shrugs-

I've had it also go bat shit wrong for me, though.

~ver

I used PS7's 'save for web' feature on my av

Thing is, my av was a 1.3ish kb gif before I drop shadowed and png'ed it

I'm using the Save as web feature. I'm not so stupid as to do a normal save as.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:I'm using the Save as web feature. I'm not so stupid as to do a normal save as.

Try importing it into Image Ready first. Image Ready has a more complete set of tools for image compression.

Image Ready... is that available (legally) for nothing?

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Image Ready... is that available (legally) for nothing?

It is a program the comes with Photoshop. Check in the Photoshop directory

Or use gimp. It has 9 levels of png compression (and uncompressed).

Bah, even gimp won't compress enough occasionally. Use pngcrush with the options '-m 113 -cc -l 9' which gives about 20% size reduction in addition to gimp's compression.

My 24-bit PNG sig image at another forum...



It doesn't appear quite right on the dark-blue/black theme version of this forum, as it was designed with a light background in mind.

But like Hamel said, if you use IE, you're out of luck.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Image Ready... is that available (legally) for nothing?

There's a thing (in export i think) where it exports to imageready, within photoshop.

PNG24 is a 24-bit image, so you might have to do some trickery with the pallette first. Unfortunately, my mighty B-36 avatar suffers the same fate as other nicely anti-aliased images -- too big. I must then suffer with puny 1-bit alpha courtesy of PNG8