How do people prepare images for posting? Mine always look horrible due to image compression.
I always resize to someting about 1200x800 or 800x1200, sometimes a bit bigger, sometimes a bit smaller.
I use Photoshop, so that allows me to perform a "save for web" where you can use a slider to define the % compression and it gives you a target size before saving. Very useful and not too ugly at all.
I'll have to try the save for the web - what size do you normally render at?
Mick
Anything from the resolution I just mentioned to a lot bigger....doesn't matter here, as long as you don't try to save too large images to 512kb or smaller.
Cheers for that ;D Just tried it much better quality.
I use Irfanview (save for web... plugin), which also has a slider and exactly gives you the kB's for any compression. So I can get it just under 500kB. Irfanview (free) is also very light and fast for these small matters.
Irfanview is also a great animation sequence previewer. :)
Richard
XnView (http://www.xnview.com/) is my choice, with a similar web export option with image quality preview and lots of options for compression quality besides (e.g. optimized huffman coding, remove meta data). I find XnView's interface to be miles better than Irfanview as well (which feels rather clunky to me).
For sequence viewing (animation preview), nothing beats DJV (http://djv.sourceforge.net/) for freeware. Better than Irfan and Xnview for sure.
- Oshyan
Thank you!
Cool, Oshyan. Thanks for the links.