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Ars Fera aka Katie Chiang is a 19.9 year old girl, has been a member since May 4, 2009, has scored 11,455 submissions, giving an average score of 2.57, helping 175 designs get printed.

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Jul 28 '09 by Ars Fera
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How to reduce image file size?

So I have just posted a critique that was basically just an outline with a little bit of black coloring. I saved it as a JPG and unfortunately the file was 290 something kb. So I saved it as a GIF and only shaved off 10-20 more kb. After saving it as a PNG I got it to 243kb. But this is only an outline. How can I downsize the image file other than saving it as different file types? Is there some way to compress it or what?
Sorry if this is a noob question.. lol..

chelly on Jul 28 '09 at 3:23pm

have you tried setting your raygun to shrink? that should do it.

spacesick 2 on Jul 28 '09 at 3:26pm

omg your last design was a-dorable! who ARE you?

Maltzmania on Jul 28 '09 at 3:29pm

i'm also interested in the answer, i oft have this problem

Ars Fera on Jul 28 '09 at 3:32pm

ah my raygun's jammed.. crap.

stalliongsta on Jul 28 '09 at 3:32pm

what program are you using?

in photoshop, you want to choose "save for web", which allows you to play around with various file and compression settings.

Ars Fera on Jul 28 '09 at 3:34pm

Photoshop CS4

And I'll look for that

Btw spacesick, love your type tee :3

spacesick 2 on Jul 28 '09 at 3:34pm

danke :4

Ars Fera on Jul 28 '09 at 3:35pm

Yeah, there's an option that says 'Save for web & devices', I'll play around with that and see what it does, thanks :)

I'm assuming it'll affect quality correct? Whatever, I'll just link a highres version then.

Rachel Ray Gun on Jul 28 '09 at 3:36pm

Save for web and devices is definitely your best bet. You can get away with compressing a JPG that way without pixelating it too much. Same goes for a gif, although you'll have to mess around a bit more.

Ars Fera on Jul 28 '09 at 3:39pm

Yeah lol, just figured that out.. I'm playing around with it and if I save my PNG as a JPEG it says it'll cut it down to 178kb or so. That's still a lot for an outline.. but it's my only shot really.. thanks Stalliongsta!

emoisforposers on Jul 28 '09 at 3:42pm

chelly on Jul 28 '09 at 3:23pm

have you tried setting your raygun to shrink? that should do it.

LOL

Maltzmania on Jul 29 '09 at 10:21am

thanks RRG! 2 of my subs just got declined for being too pixelated or blurry...hopefully this'll fix it

Maltzmania on Jul 29 '09 at 10:23am

although i'm probably still screwed because I only have GIMP

d3d on Jul 29 '09 at 10:33am

it might be an obvious question but is it 72dpi? i've rarely had a sub image over 250kb unless there was craploads of gradients in it.

Ars Fera on Jul 29 '09 at 12:33pm

O! I never thought of that! I think it's 200dpi.. I know that's what the highres document is, and to save it as a jpeg I just od a save as then JPEG and reduce the image size to 640x800 for submitting.. So maybe it kept the 200 dpi.. if so, how would one change the dpi lol? I know how to create documents and adjust the res, but idk how to change it after that..

Ars Fera on Jul 29 '09 at 12:34pm

Hell, I don't even know how to check the resolution on a picture at all..

Halp plz

sausage_moe on Jul 31 '09 at 10:24am

choose: picture...image size

it tells you the res and the measurements of the pic

plz critique me

http://www.threadless.com/critique/49817/How_it_really_happened

sausage_moe on Jul 31 '09 at 10:27am

uh oh...i don't know if it is called picture in the english version...maybe its "image"...whatever...third tab from the left at the very top...or "Alt+Ctr+I" that should do the trick

Ars Fera on Jul 31 '09 at 10:30am

Oh wow! Thanks a ton Sausage Moe(lol :3)!

And picture and image in this case are interchangable I think :)

I'll check out your crit!

ryinghill on Jul 31 '09 at 10:30am

You can also "flatten" your layers to compress space before you save your file.

ryinghill on Jul 31 '09 at 10:31am

under "layers" , then "flatten image"

Ars Fera on Jul 31 '09 at 10:34am

As soon as I save it as a jpeg it does that for me, the layers aren't what's taking up the space :z

14 days later

Pedrots on Aug 15 '09 at 3:46am

high dpi = lots of kb

3 days later

Ars Fera on Aug 18 '09 at 6:04pm

I figured as much :P

3 days later

sidepull on Aug 22 '09 at 4:28pm

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