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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: J3Vr6 on June 18, 2004, 08:29:04 am
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Alright, my girl lent me her scanner a while back and I need help. Yes, I know how to scan. I'm not that dumb, I think. I'm scanning on Windows 98, and using the microsoft photo editor afterwards to do any sizing, etc etc.
Here are some initial questions:
1. What's a good size to resize the pictures to for viewing in a forum?
- I was scanning them and reducing them to 3 inches wide by whatever height, but isn't that too small for art?
2. How can I keep the picture at a decent size while maintaining quality but still lower the size of the file?
- Whenver I scan, and keep it at 3 inches wide, the pictures are like 400k. I dont know what Windows XP has, but if I use whatever editor XP has and reduce the picture by 10%, the file size suddenly goes down to like 47k. Does windows 98 have anything like that?
Ok, just so u know, I wanted to scan some old drawings I had from when I used to draw. They're in my sketch book and want them to be a small file size so people can view them comfortably, but don't want them too be too small or too too little resolution that you can't see the detail (although there isn't much, lol). I was scanning the drawings at 300 resolution.
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I don't think it matters if you just use the [lvlshot] tags... :)
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what the hell is lvlshot?
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Replace the [img] [ /img] tages with [lvlshot] [ /lvlshot] without the spaces and it shows a smaller version of the pic to fit the screen. Then click on it and it brings up a new window with the fullsized version...
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So I could put 500k-700k pictures and u guys won't cry that they're too large, filesize wise?
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:nod:
I'm pretty sure that's how it works...
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lvlshot shows your pictures in certain lenght and width, it does not make you filesize any smaller. People, especially those with modems will still cry. Granted, they will cry about anything which is not pure text, they still probably surf with lynx.
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I'd rip your testicals off if they exceeded 2 MB in total. Slowdem doesn't like that.
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God no, not those sizes.
IDEAL sizes for JPEG images is under 100KB. Furthermore the pixel size shouldn't, unless necessary, exceed 800x600.
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Alright, I think I can reduce them to about 100k+ but I don't know if quality is suffered. I have to load them onto my webspace and look at them to see if they're ok.
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Originally posted by Mr. Fury
lvlshot shows your pictures in certain lenght and width, it does not make you filesize any smaller. People, especially those with modems will still cry. Granted, they will cry about anything which is not pure text, they still probably surf with lynx.
It does to bring down the filesize...
Until you open it in the window.
I agree with 800x600, though...
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Originally posted by jdjtcagle
It does to bring down the filesize...
No it doesn't. Your computer still downloads the entire image, the HTML just forces the image to exist in a restricted amount of space.
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Ummm... :nervous:
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well that was fun :)
Anyway, I'll post them maybe 2nite when I get home.