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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[ash48.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Usually I'd get my expert hubby to help, but..um.. yeah, he's over my SPN stuff. (plus he's not here).

It's very likely I will take you up on that offer if I get stuck. :) I don't need to do anything fancy, just lighten and bring up the contrast and colour etc on the caps. I've been doing it in FCE, which I know isn't ideal.

I'm going to play around with the best way to save them. The "72" is confusing me a bit but I'll see what I can do.

Thanks bb! <3

[maichan.livejournal.com]

Photoshop will "Save for Web" at 72 dpi automatically. The only time you need to worry about it is if you are planning to print out a photo, in which case you should use 300 dpi.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Ah... cool. That's even easier. :)

Cheers
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