PNG takes forever to download

RiceGods · Post by **RiceGods** » Fri Jul 13, 2001 10:09 am

Okay people here's te problem at this moment a couple of days ago I posted a thing saying that I needed help with images. Now I can kinda do it I'm having still another situation that's driving me nuts. You see when I upload my pics to my ftp in jpg mode they look all out of wack. Colors get displaced it it's mundo UGLY. So I tried GIF and everything looks crackheaded with little fots everywhere. Then I tried png and everything worked perfectly. But now the problem is that PNG taked forever to come in! What should I do? Are there no other types of files that the internet can read? Please I need help! My site is <A HREF="http://WWW.DelphiEssential.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>WWW.DelphiEssential.keenspace.com</A>

Seven3 · Post by **Seven3** » Sat Jul 14, 2001 2:16 am

PNG is slow because the files are huge in full colour (24 bit) mode, in 256 colour (8 bit) mode tho', they're smaller than gifs.Jpegs are lossy, but all good paint programs let you juggle between quality and file size. If you use them keep tweaking the setting until you get a good balance.Looking at your comics, you could probably reduce your comics to 256 colours if you tidied up your lines.
The way that I've found that works for me is to scan the images in b/w (rather than grayscale) in a high a resolution as your computer can handle (ie: 150, 300, or 600 dpi). This creates an image with huge dimentions, so scale it back down to normal once you're done.------------------
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PDI · Post by **PDI** » Sun Jul 15, 2001 3:45 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by RiceGods:
Okay people here's te problem at this moment a couple of days ago I posted a thing saying that I needed help with images. Now I can kinda do it I'm having still another situation that's driving me nuts. You see when I upload my pics to my ftp in jpg mode they look all out of wack. Colors get displaced it it's mundo UGLY. So I tried GIF and everything looks crackheaded with little fots everywhere. Then I tried png and everything worked perfectly. But now the problem is that PNG taked forever to come in! What should I do? Are there no other types of files that the internet can read? Please I need help! My site is <A HREF="http://WWW.DelphiEssential.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>WWW.DelphiEssential.keenspace.com</A> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>If they look akoy but get whacked when you FTP them, you are most likely FTP-ing them in ASCII instead of Binary mode -- check you FTP options...------------------
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RiceGods · Post by **RiceGods** » Sun Jul 15, 2001 8:39 am

Thanks for your help Scott (Can I call you that?)I know read maybe hundreds of these a day, but sorry for seemingly getting in your way =/ But thanks to both of you for
answering.

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Mon Jul 16, 2001 4:13 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by RiceGods:
What is dithering?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Dithering is how the computer attempts to create the illusion of there being more colors by making patterns of dots. For example, grays are made with dithered patterns of black and white dots. However, dithering tends to look very bad for certain kinds of images.------------------
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RiceGods · Post by **RiceGods** » Mon Jul 16, 2001 8:07 am

What is dithering?

Megazone27 · Post by **Megazone27** » Mon Jul 16, 2001 11:01 am

I took your image for the 14th and dropped the image to 256 colours, with dithering turned off. The Comic then saved as 155k vs. the 615k image it was to begin with. The Gif version might have looked bad because it had dithering turned on.