Purplegoo
Joined: Mar 23, 2006
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Daudy
Joined: Aug 28, 2008
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Jul 14, 2012 - 09:46 |
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Play lizards and go to the public gallery.
Best player portraits ever! |
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Kalimar
Joined: Sep 22, 2006
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Jul 14, 2012 - 11:04 |
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The 30K limit is arbitrary from an FFB point of view. So it must be site reasons or it's just an old and forgotten thingy. There is no reason in the code to have such a limit. The size restriction is valid, of course (FFB downsizes images that are too large - which might be ugly). |
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krytie
Joined: Aug 16, 2007
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Jul 14, 2012 - 11:38 |
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When I joined FUMBBL the pic limit was 10kb for a 114x177 pixel pic, which was on occasion a bit of a struggle, but this luxurious new 30kb for an even smaller picture is just ridiculously easy. Even now most of my jpg/gif portraits are 4-8kb.
I even used crappy old MS Paint for most of them, although have started using GIMP as well to allow for better editing (not relating to the sizing issue). |
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garyt1
Joined: Mar 12, 2011
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Jul 14, 2012 - 11:51 |
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| Wotfudboy wrote: | | But yes, it's point 5 that is the pain... and I've just used MS Paint... still needs to work out if changing percentage or pixel size gets the image below 30KB... does paint.net or Gimp allow you to do this much easier within the software?, and if so, how? |
Paint is not so bad for this as you can change both axes by a %. A bit annoying if you mistakenly make it slightly too large. But yes some autoresize thing in FUMBBL would be awesome.
FUMBBL player image limit is 200x200 I recall. |
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Rabe
Joined: Jun 06, 2009
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Jul 14, 2012 - 11:55 |
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IrfanView and PhotoFiltre (yes, it's "re" not "er" since originally French) are both nice programs to do the job. GIMP can be a bit confusing if you're not used to it yet (at least it is for me). |
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garyt1
Joined: Mar 12, 2011
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Jul 14, 2012 - 11:57 |
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PGoo's link is great. |
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Christer
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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One tip for saving PNG files is to make sure you use the "Save for Web" feature if you have it (I'm personally using Photoshop Elements). This results in a smaller file than a normal save because it excludes things like colour profile information. |
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Wotfudboy
Joined: Feb 17, 2004
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Jul 14, 2012 - 14:19 |
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| Christer wrote: | | One tip for saving PNG files is to make sure you use the "Save for Web" feature if you have it (I'm personally using Photoshop Elements). This results in a smaller file than a normal save because it excludes things like colour profile information. |
Well, I'm delighted to say that my laptop has Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0. The great thing I found (as well as the tip mentioned above to Save for Web) is that it not just gives you the chance to alter the % or pixels, but also, most importantly, shows you the KB size of the image after you have made the change (ie instead of having to save it and switch to windows explorer/details to see the resulting file size.
Thanks for the help everyone, but still interested to hear how you all do this, because it sounds to me like people have lots of different ways of doing this. |
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Neuroosi
Joined: Aug 08, 2011
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Jul 14, 2012 - 20:57 |
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It's easy peasy..
I use Photoshop too but I think there is plenty of other free programs which can do the same thing (inc. layers, text and so on). I have these saved player portraits and team images on PSD-file which have some text etc. layers so they can be modified easilly for any kind of team/player.
So what I do.
1. Search pic from computer or google and open it in photoshop.
2. Resize it that it looks "good" on the player portrait
3. Change the text & make some other adjustments or so
4. Save the thing in JPG and change the image quality so it fits to FUMBBL limit |
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Garion
Joined: Aug 19, 2009
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Jul 14, 2012 - 21:21 |
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naaa I just can't do it. It's just too hard.
here is the image 
when I try to get the image size below 30kb the image quality is just too poor, or the transparency doesn't work properly.
Using all the tips on these pages I got the image size down to about 34kb any lower and the image quality is too badly effected. |
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Neuroosi
Joined: Aug 08, 2011
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Jul 15, 2012 - 09:21 |
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Garion, Are you using PS?
If you are, choose 5 or 6 from it image quality and save the thing in JPG (you can also choose some other format but JPG usually can handle low quality quite well).
If you want to keep the transparency use GIF. The file size is now 14kb
Here..
Edit: The quality is ok to me? And it looks almost the same as the PNG-file you used. |
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Garion
Joined: Aug 19, 2009
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Jul 15, 2012 - 09:26 |
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I use adobe ps. I can't use jpg as you lose transparency. When I changed it to gif the picture looks alot more pixelated. Though I can't see yours yet. |
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Neuroosi
Joined: Aug 08, 2011
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Jul 15, 2012 - 09:36 |
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Huh.. Thats strange.. Perhaps you pack the GIF-file differently. Or do you use what PS offers? Try changeing them, it might help.
I used the settings PS offered. Palette: Selective (local) if you choose Web then it might get pixelated a bit. |
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Garion
Joined: Aug 19, 2009
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Jul 15, 2012 - 10:32 |
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I can see yours now, the problem is it doesn't handle the transparency very well. Also the parchment looks very rough around the edges. Though it will probably have to do as I can't get a PNG under 30kb |
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