Convert your pics to indexed
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Convert your pics to indexed
...when appropriate. You can shrink the size considerably when you convert a png from full RGB to 16 colours indexed. For b&w line art this usually doesn't decrease the quality noticeably, the white may get a slight yellowish tone but it doesn't matter with pictures posted for demonstration purposes. You can try even 8 colours, and if it still looks good, post that instead. All this will save your upload quota, the server bandwith and the time of people with slow connections.
Indexing doesn't work well for shaded images, you either get banding or ugly dithering.
Indexing doesn't work well for shaded images, you either get banding or ugly dithering.
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Re: Convert your pics to indexed
Or just use imageshack.Sgt. Groovy wrote:...when appropriate. You can shrink the size considerably when you convert a png from full RGB to 16 colours indexed. For b&w line art this usually doesn't decrease the quality noticeably, the white may get a slight yellowish tone but it doesn't matter with pictures posted for demonstration purposes. You can try even 8 colours, and if it still looks good, post that instead. All this will save your upload quota, the server bandwith and the time of people with slow connections.
Indexing doesn't work well for shaded images, you either get banding or ugly dithering.
At least I do it, we don't want to waste precious space for trash do we.
Re: Convert your pics to indexed
Make sure that the image is greyscale (desaturate, convert to greyscale, etc.) and there won't be any color casts.Sgt. Groovy wrote:...when appropriate. You can shrink the size considerably when you convert a png from full RGB to 16 colours indexed. For b&w line art this usually doesn't decrease the quality noticeably, the white may get a slight yellowish tone but it doesn't matter with pictures posted for demonstration purposes.