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Question for people posting work as gigantic PNG files...
greentooth
Why in gods name are you doing this? Are you saving your screenshots in mspaint?
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JPG please, and crank it down to about 70% or so.
Usually 7-8 quality in the JPEG slider in Photoshop.
I think the problem is more the filetype thing (jpeg. Always, jpeg) and often times when I see a big image posted its like 60% blank space. Composition folks. Composition.
and all that high-speed stuff that a small 1+mb file wouldn´t be a problem anymore..? o0
sad to know that the bandwidth problem still exists for some. (will try to keep that in mind next time)
more serious;
There are also webGL mesh viewers in various threads embedded which easily exceed 15+mb... per presented project/mesh - where is the ranting about that?
Those don't actually load until you press a button. Before that, it's just a preview image.
this whole site without clicking anything only has 742.0 kB.
but yeah without thinking a bit, the file sizes will be always pretty big..
When you save an image in photoshop, use the File>Save for Web option. That compresses it the best without losing quality. It's way better than doing Save As jpeg.
Yeah, but you forgot that these times are also the ones when people browse the internet on mobile tablets over phone plans with limited bandwith and a sometimes less than stellar 3G/4G network !
Video also plays back at a fixed rate so it doesn't really matter how large the entire file is as long as you can stream it faster than it can play it back. An image has to be viewed in its entirety (or at least most of it).
More importantly video sites usually offer different resolutions and automatically adjust if it is loading too slow. I don't get the option to just load a jpeg when I get tired of waiting for someone's 7mb PNG to load.
Entry tier for fiber around here is 15mbps down/up.
But yeah, mobile is definitely still an issue.
Basically no one. It's only in three cities.
that resulting really large image with png format....
forgetting the mobile viewers is a huge issue.
Another reason might be the convenience of Facebooks image auto compression which might be also a reason for people forgetting to optimize their pictures.
@Jed: I have no problems with PNG when people are using it for what it is good at. But it seems like people rarely are.
And with my other hand I will choke the ones who quote the whole damn post with a "looks nice!"
As monitor resolutions continues to improve, images that were considered "large" will be seen as "low res" in the future.
Yeah, but now they're way too big. You can't ignore the present in preparation for the future.
Greenshot can be set to a number of different formats, also can upload straight to imgur.
Its a good point.
How is that bad though?
@Tekoppar- it depends on perspective, if you want people to point out flaws in your work, it doesn't matter. However if its presentation, then resizing the image will hide some flaws that you'd normally see if it were 2x the size.
Oh, this. So very much this.
But why would you want to hide your flaws as an artist?
Please this, Some of the wip pages are just LONG qoute pages where someone posts a few kick ass images in one and everyone qoutes it.
I dont need to see the image more than that one time, a link if i want to catch up is all thats needed.
Presentation: Don't show your bad, show your good.
WIP/Work that wants critique: Show whatever.
Windows Snipping Tool, the one thats installed on every PC ? : P
The auto time-stamp added to the file name is also very nice. Jing also offers this functionality with an option to draw lines and add text before you save your screen.
I used greenshot before but the reason why I switched was because of the selected area option (adjustable)