[chaoscope] How to: Post big picures that will be small enough in file size to send
- From: Alan <alan2here@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 12:12:56 +0100
<Quote (by paul.N.Lee)>
So it is best to keep any attached images to probably around 100-KB to
110-KB in size to make sure they go through.
</quote>
In "paint shop pro 7" in the colours menu there is an option to "count
colours used" this returns a number, If this number is below a few of
thousand you may want to save as a png file instead to create a smaller yet
better quality file than a jpeg. Also you can choose from the colours menu
decrease colors to 256, then make shore "optimised octree" is selected
because if "standard" is selected it will look awful, this makes your images
even smaller and generally keeps them looking quite good if they had a
thousand or less colours to start with. For high colour images with
thousands of colours like photo's, jpeg although lossy is defiantly the
better format for fitting picture's into this roughly 100kb to 110kb limit.
With jpegs progressive encoding adds quite a bit onto the file size so it's
best to use standard, color depth is always 24-bit in a jpeg so reducing
colour depth does not decrease the file size.
I expect this is all possible in photoshop also.
Alliteratively link them to image shack:
http://imageshack.us/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageShack
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