Because my flist is so knowledgable..

[ash48]

I know. I ask a lot of questions. I've learned over time that that's the best way for me to learn and a great way to get info relevant to LJ.

This time I have one for the picspammers.

I have actually opened up Photoshop and I AM PLAYING! \o/ I have figured out how to size and colour and I'm damn excited about that.

The question is. What is a good and reasonable size (kb/mb) for an image? I have no idea if I should be aiming for a say 300kb file or lower. Higher? Obviously the higher the better for quality, but what is consider too big? I suspect if a picspam is too big it would take the average person too long to dl the images. Yeah?

And umm... png or jpeg? Argh! New learning curve.

Also *HUGS* everyone for the show/tell info. SO awesome. I learned heaps. Mostly that writing seems hard!

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[storyspinner70.livejournal.com]

Most of my .jpg files are in the neighborhood of 20-150kb for various sizes. Most are much less than 100kb. It just depends on how heavy the graphic is, I guess, and the resolution. Most of mine are 72.

My .png files, though, are easily twice that or even larger depending on the size and resolution of them. I usually default to .png (cause I'm lazy that way) because they tend to be crisper and more clear for me - especially if the image has text in it.

Don't forget to learn animated .gifs, too. :D Those are fun!

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Ah,ok. Thank you. Um... I'm trying to figure out how to make the resolution "72". At the moment I am using "save as". Do I need to "save for web & devices"? Sorry for dumb question.

Ack! I've tried .gifs. I'm yet to work out how to make it easy. It seems like such a lot of mucking around. Though I suspect that's just because I don't know how to do them properly. One I work out how to actually make my pics looks half decent I'll try playing around with .gifs again.

Thanks!

[storyspinner70.livejournal.com]

Hiya. You can set that when you go to image size from the Image menu. You'll see the pixels, then below it the resolution. That's also where you, um, size it. :D

Oh, that's also where you can set the document size, which may be different from the actual picture size. That would be like if you wanted a border around the pic or to add something else besides just one image.

Also, if you aren't sure about the sizing by using pixels, you can click on the dropdown beside the actual measurements and change that to percent. Then you can choose to size it by a certain percentage in reference to the original size.

Sorry if you know that already. I'm not sure just what you know and don't. :D