Profile for TerdFergusson - Tips for making the design's file size smaller?

TerdFergusson aka Brendan Kellam is a 24.54 year old boy, has been a member since June 12, 2005, has scored 1,224 submissions, giving an average score of 1.94, helping 46 designs get printed.

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May 13 '08 by TerdFergusson
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Tips for making the design's file size smaller?

It seems a problem I run into pretty often is making the file size for a design small enough to submit while keeping the quality. I've been sticking to .png file format because that's the smallest but I could use a few suggestions. Thanks.

lixus on May 13 '08 at 9:12pm

how small you want it to be?

my submission is 120 kb size in jpeg format, still have a decent quality, the dimension is 640 x 800 pix

TerdFergusson on May 13 '08 at 9:27pm

Well, 250 kb is the max size for submissions. This is the design I've been working on. I've been working in illustrator. Those circles were individual until I just figured out to flatten transparency, which saved me about 20 kb (to 241 kb, just enough to submit a new critique). However, I want to add a picture for shirt placement and stuff for the official submission. So, I could use a few pointers to save some file space.

lixus on May 13 '08 at 9:43pm

hey nice design! try to export it to jpeg first, or you can copy your design to be composed in photoshop, use 640 x 480 pix dimension and when you save in jpeg make sure on the dialog box (bottom part--file size) do not exceed 250 kb, while checking your preview and keeping the quality, basically the lower quaility the lower your file size is, just keep it adequate yet efficient. good luck!