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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Scaled down from the original source picture. Anything under 10K makes it look so so as a GIF, and it looks like murky shit as a JPEG.

That sucks. What program are you using?

EDIT: I just scaled up your avatar from 80x80 to 100x100 with Photoshop, and it doesn't look bad, as long as you change it away from Indexed Color before upping the scale.

Nice av Mike, very cool.

100x100 now?

*fires up photoshop*

behold my monkey grows larger!

Robert Treder wrote:

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Scaled down from the original source picture. Anything under 10K makes it look so so as a GIF, and it looks like murky shit as a JPEG.

That sucks. What program are you using?

EDIT: I just scaled up your avatar from 80x80 to 100x100 with Photoshop, and it doesn't look bad, as long as you change it away from Indexed Color before upping the scale.

Hmm, I'll have to mess around a bit more. I'd rather not scale up, though. But I'll see what it comes to.

Try PNG.

Hmm, PNG is virtually the same.

They look better as GIFs then JPEGS, though.

GIF at 128 colours and no dither gives me 6.69K, and at 64 colours with diffusion gives me 5.49K.

Does it have to be exactly 6K? or can it be a little over or close to 7K?

I'm using PS 6, btw...

*whew* just made it in under the limit. New av: 5.977K


Spanky, try adjusting the color palette between 64 and 128. 64 colors should be plenty for that pic to look good, but somewhere inbetween the two might yield more satisfying results for you.

Or try it as a non-interlaced jpeg. That's what I had to do to get away from too much gif pixelation.

trica darned 6k limit!

Okay, got in at about 5.96somethingK, about 91 colours.

Looks like it'll be a custom job for each one...

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Hmm, PNG is virtually the same.

They look better as GIFs then JPEGS, though.

GIF at 128 colours and no dither gives me 6.69K, and at 64 colours with diffusion gives me 5.49K.

Does it have to be exactly 6K? or can it be a little over or close to 7K?

I'm using PS 6, btw...

I'm not too sure how much you know about this, but just in case.... can you adjust the compression ratios, inter/non-interlaced features when saving as a jpeg?

I'm keeping mine at 64x64, because that's the largest you need. Good resolution, yet doesn't clog up those poor people with 56ks.

I generally don't like the way JPEGs compress with sizes this small, anyway.

But thanks.

EDIT: Now you can see Cammy in even better glory!!

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Looks great!!

I'd almost swear it looks like it was that colour originally.

Kinda like that one piece of production artwork for TPM where Yoda had black robes.

The dark and light edge marks from the Burn tool kinda give it away, but that's just my Photoshop nit-pickiness flaring up.

Hmm, now I would have given him a pure black robe, lengthen his hair a bit, put him in a big muscle-car with flames in the background, swap his head with a grimmer-looking mugshot shot from TPM, put lightsources in his eyes, add a soft light color layer, some extra shadows and retexturized clothing using a second semi-transparent layer...

This topic got me thinking a bit, espically since I wanted to experiment with the optimizer in PSP 7. I was experimenting with getting a 100x100 in JPG, GIF, and PNG formats below the 6k limit.

This is the original I was working from, cropped and resized from the original image I quickly grabbed off the internet when I releized that I didn't have a decent version on my hard drive.

Format is PNG, 16.7 million colors. Original size would've been around 30k, but having it in PNG format puts it down to around 18k without really doing much to the image.



From what I can remember - the first one is in GIF89a format with 89 colors via Optimized Octree. I can't remember if it's interlaced or non-interlaced at the moment, but the byte difference is only about a dozen either way. The second is in JPEG format with a compression ratio of 6 (compared to the default 15), and has 6061 colors if you're really curious. The third is in PNG format with the colors reduced down to 143 with Optimized Octree.

Well, here it is as a GIF, 50-60 colours, interlaced and diffused (or whatever).

I'm pretty happy with it.

EDIT: Avatar has switched back to Cammy.
Behold Cammy White in her newfound glory!!

Thank Gawd for that, Ol'Agent Smith has more room to be menacing in.
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David wrote:behold my monkey grows larger!

must...resist....urge...to make masturbation jokes....

aerius wrote:

David wrote:behold my monkey grows larger!

must...resist....urge...to make masturbation jokes....

I would say something other than his monkey.


But now you can put bigger and better Chantal avs now.

David wrote:behold my monkey grows larger!

If that wasn't the World's Most Blindingly Obvious Penis Joke™ I don't know what is.... LMAO!!

Robert Treder wrote:In honor of the new maximum size, I have a new avatar.
<--- Introducing Mr. Sleep

That's a fucking Funny/Scary-Ass avvy. LOL

Darth Wong wrote:Actually, I boosted the maximum avatar size to 100x100 pixels for all users. Call it a belated Christmas present! Bigger avatars for everyone!!!

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!

About time!

David wrote:behold my monkey grows larger!

Behold my avatar .... stays exactly the same. I can't be arsed and i have the photoshoppping skilz of a chinchilla!

Nice, DW. Maybe I can make a bigger Konstantin...

Very nice Mike. How do you like mine?

IG-88E wrote:Nice, DW. Maybe I can make a bigger Konstantin...

Yummy... that's always welkum...