Image quality

[mhaze]

How do people prepare images for posting?  Mine always look horrible due to image compression.

[Tangled-Universe]

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.

[mhaze]

I'll have to try the save for the web - what size do you normally render at?

Mick

[Tangled-Universe]

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.

[mhaze]

Cheers for that   Just tried it much better quality.

[Dune]

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.

[cyphyr]

Irfanview is also a great animation sequence previewer.
Richard

[Oshyan]

XnView 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 for freeware. Better than Irfan and Xnview for sure.

- Oshyan

[TheBadger]

Thank you!

[rcallicotte]

Cool, Oshyan.  Thanks for the links.