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hym!
Totally unexpected and out of the blue, I get gift art today at work by a new watcher and otherwise total stranger. Not a very common event at all, but totally awesome. Interestingly, contrasting to a good number of my commissioned works, this one does a pretty good job at making me look feral, whilst still retaining some of that improved anthro mobility. Bonus points!
Now I'll give you a fun and informative lecture on knowing your image settings and types! This started out as a 141 KB, grayscale JPEG. Turning it into a PNG with no other changes decreased the filesize to 117 KB. Enhancing the contrast and using a feathered-edge area select on specific regions allowed me to darken it up while simultaneously eliminating many the imperfections in the image, and/or compression artifacts (standard operating procedure for grayscale, non-PNG images on my computer). This decreased the filesize to 55.5 KB. Turning it to Indexed mode decreased the size to 53.8 KB--a minor savings, but the image looks the same, pixel-for-pixel, so why not? The thumbnail was an 11 KB PNG (gasp!) but when turned grayscale it became a much more pallatable 4.89 KB. Indexing such a small image actually increased the filesize, so I didn't do that. Anyway! Know your filetypes and image settings, and you can get serious space savings while improving quality. Everybody wins, and your art looks better than ever! =)
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hym!Totally unexpected and out of the blue, I get gift art today at work by a new watcher and otherwise total stranger. Not a very common event at all, but totally awesome. Interestingly, contrasting to a good number of my commissioned works, this one does a pretty good job at making me look feral, whilst still retaining some of that improved anthro mobility. Bonus points!
Now I'll give you a fun and informative lecture on knowing your image settings and types! This started out as a 141 KB, grayscale JPEG. Turning it into a PNG with no other changes decreased the filesize to 117 KB. Enhancing the contrast and using a feathered-edge area select on specific regions allowed me to darken it up while simultaneously eliminating many the imperfections in the image, and/or compression artifacts (standard operating procedure for grayscale, non-PNG images on my computer). This decreased the filesize to 55.5 KB. Turning it to Indexed mode decreased the size to 53.8 KB--a minor savings, but the image looks the same, pixel-for-pixel, so why not? The thumbnail was an 11 KB PNG (gasp!) but when turned grayscale it became a much more pallatable 4.89 KB. Indexing such a small image actually increased the filesize, so I didn't do that. Anyway! Know your filetypes and image settings, and you can get serious space savings while improving quality. Everybody wins, and your art looks better than ever! =)
Twile created by me.
Category All / General Furry Art
Species Western Dragon
Size 567 x 730px
File Size 53.9 kB
Eh. I notice myself, that my porn gets more views than my clean stuff, but my clean stuff gets more comments and praise. Plus, half the comments on my porn are about the architecture in the background or the color and shading.
Frankly, people click on what grabs the eye. A picture with bright colors is going to get more views that a picture with dull colors, or no colors at all. A picture with a tulmotuous background is going to get more clicks than a picture with a plain background, and a picture with a penis is going to get more clicks than one without. Nothing to get upset about.
Frankly, people click on what grabs the eye. A picture with bright colors is going to get more views that a picture with dull colors, or no colors at all. A picture with a tulmotuous background is going to get more clicks than a picture with a plain background, and a picture with a penis is going to get more clicks than one without. Nothing to get upset about.
I use GIMP exclusively! Let's figure this out.
Yeah, PNG doesn't give you options. It always saves totally lossless, so there are no quality settings for you to pick from. Where you pick the stuff is under the Image menu, Mode submenu. There you can turn your images to grayscale, or indexed.
Obviously for a color picture you're going to want to keep it color, and if PNG turns out to be huge--which it will, given its perfect quality--and the JPEG looks good enough, then you might want to go that route. However if you're putting up line art for example, turning it to grayscale mode and saving it as a PNG can create a fairly small image, as I demonstrated here.
But you are right. PNG does, with full-color pictures, tend to give you a very large file (though smaller than BMP or TIFF). But the quality is perfect. Does that excuse the file size? It's your call.
Yeah, PNG doesn't give you options. It always saves totally lossless, so there are no quality settings for you to pick from. Where you pick the stuff is under the Image menu, Mode submenu. There you can turn your images to grayscale, or indexed.
Obviously for a color picture you're going to want to keep it color, and if PNG turns out to be huge--which it will, given its perfect quality--and the JPEG looks good enough, then you might want to go that route. However if you're putting up line art for example, turning it to grayscale mode and saving it as a PNG can create a fairly small image, as I demonstrated here.
But you are right. PNG does, with full-color pictures, tend to give you a very large file (though smaller than BMP or TIFF). But the quality is perfect. Does that excuse the file size? It's your call.
Ah, okay. I thought with everyone's quick connections these days I could get away with posting an eight-hundred-kilobyte file, so I originally posted Bit of a Trip as a P.N.G., but then I realized that whereas I had cable, Fur Affinity couldn't beam the file out in under twenty seconds. So I replaced it with a J-Peg. I set the subsampling to 1x1, 1x1, 1x1, though. It adds fifteen kilobytes or so but the artifacts when they appear don't show up as reds and blues.
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