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!

Comments

[transfixeddream.livejournal.com]

My general rule of thumb for jpg vs png is whether or not it's a picture. If it is, jpg is the way to go, as photoshop can optimize the quality of the image while still keeping it a jpg. For anything else, png is definitely the way! Things with fonts and such - you definitely want something that'll keep the lines crisp and unfuzzy. Plus, png has the awesome ability to allow you to make parts of an image transparent or translucent, which is very very useful if you're posting things on a non-white background.

I say for a picspam, definitely try to aim under 300kb. It shouldn't be too hard if you use jpg - the files that eat up the kbs are pngs and gifs. I'd also maybe consider how many images you'll have in your picspam, as some browsers will run slowly if there's far too much loaded on one page.

Have fun playing with photoshop. :D

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Cool. That's great... I am imagining my picspam will have a lot of pics, that's why I am concerned about the size. But I don't want to lose the quality.

If I can get the jpgs to look good than that sounds like the way to go. I don't need to do anything fancy with them. Just lighten and play with the colour a bit. SPN footage is usually so dark.

Thanks so much! <33