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angeltoes aka Sarah Whittaker is a 25.7 year old girl, has been a member since May 27, 2005, has scored 1,433 submissions, giving an average score of 2.43, helping 13 designs get printed.
I'm confused (a Mac problem)
OK

So I've been designing a tshirt for here, which was all going dandy until I came to save the preview and thumbnail as a gif.

Uh-oh.

Basically, I found it vertually impossible to get it under 60kb (or so I thought). After I'd saved the file I'd check the size on my Mac by right clicking on the file name and selecting "get info". Here it tells you the file size, and so I thought that I had to make it super-crappy quality for it to be the right size.

Anyway, long story short, I also have a Windows PC in my house. So, figuring that something was up, I save the gif onto my pen drive, pop it into my Windows PC and guess what. It's now apparently only 11kb, when on my Mac it said it was 60kb.

Anybody understand what the he;;'s going on? Am I somehow mis-reading the info on my Mac? Because I find this very strange and annoying. Hmm.

Thanks to anyone who understands what I'm on about :)

pinkerton
pinkerton on Jul 11 '05 at 2:54pm
Mac likes to add a lot of unneeded compression to GIFs and JPEGs.
tesko
   tesko on Jul 11 '05 at 3:08pm
In photoshop, use 'save for web', then in another pull down arrow thing you can specify the file size mmmkay
garr
   garr on Jul 11 '05 at 3:19pm
I think that's more to do with the different file systems the PC and Mac uses. The Mac uses HFS+ file system which will store any file in 4Kb blocks, so even if a file is about 1.5K it'll show up in Finder as 4Kb.



Either way, it's pretty annoying, since it's always a rounded value.
illustraTom
illustraTom on Jul 13 '05 at 2:50pm
It could also be that the Mac OS likes to create preview icons for images even if you've saved it in Photoshop without the preview box checked. Don't worry. That should get stripped out when the file is uploaded.
Aktaion
Aktaion on Jul 13 '05 at 5:11pm
maybe a job for Automator? :)
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