Request:Uploaded file sizes

[Egg Bramhill]

Could I kindly ask forum members to carefuly consider the size of the files that they are uploading to the forums.
I've noticed lately that some files are almost reaching 200 Kb's (These are jpg's, which must therefore be exported at 100%!?!?) For Xarian's with dial up connections, revisiting a thread with with such a large file within it makes it very difficult to view newer postings.
Egg

[Egg Bramhill]

Could I kindly ask forum members to carefuly consider the size of the files that they are uploading to the forums.
I've noticed lately that some files are almost reaching 200 Kb's (These are jpg's, which must therefore be exported at 100%!?!?) For Xarian's with dial up connections, revisiting a thread with with such a large file within it makes it very difficult to view newer postings.
Egg

[tonylondon]

Seconded!

Tonylondon

[gwpriester]

Some image guidelines for you new members.

Try to keep the width of your images to 640 pixels (unless there is a definite reason to do so--such as in the case of Paul Söderholm's image of the many walking the dog in the storm image) and set your JPEG compression as low as you can set it (80 to 50 usually produces a good image without too much noticable deterioration of image quality) when you export the JPEG.

Gary

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[Xeela_Moopuppy]

I dont think I know how to do this can someone tell me what program to do this where and how?
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[Egg Bramhill]

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[Xeela_Moopuppy]

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[Ross Macintosh]

Is that really what you do? - I'm refering to the adjusting the size in the main window as you suggest.

I rarely pay any attention to that. I only give such matters as pixel dimensions attention when I export - from within the export dialog box. Your screen capture shows the 'Bitmap Size' tab - in that part of the dialog box I specify the size of image I want to generate.

With regards to Gary's suggestion of 640pixels - I hope everyone will see that as a maximum. Judgement should be used --- there are many times when a 400 to 550 pixel width image will do just fine (particularly if it is a 'tall' image). The point is to avoid unnecessary bandwidth and have faster forum performance, and encourage the participation of our modem-challenged friends. They may be slow but we love them.

Regards, Ross

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[Egg Bramhill]

Isn't it odd how we use Xara differently between us all. I always select the image on the screen, resize it to a suitable pixel size, with aspect lock on, then turn it off to get exact pixel sizes. I've NEVER used the pixel size option in the export dialogue box!
Egg

[RAMWolff44]

that any image under 73kb was acceptable??? That's what I have been doing all along. Sometimes a slightly larger than normal image is needed to show off the details better. In needing that slightly larger size I still make sure I export the image as a .jpg putting BMP Quality slider down between 75% to 50% with out loss of crispness/quality of the image.

And like Ross I have a warning in the subject line if it's a thread that I've started...if the image IS a larger file size then I post that in parentheses ((101Kb) "example image", enjoy!!)(example).

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