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[HAWK]

aphexafx,


Any luck saving the JPEG file<100kb for forum posting with quality resolution w/ such files? If so, by what file reduction or compression method?

[aphexafx]

HAWK, um no. I just realized how small that really is. I tried to save a screen grab of my desktop which is 1600x1200 and I couldn't get it below 220k even with the highest JPEG compression setting in Photoshop. So that's no good.

However, I have as much space as I need on my servers and I would be glad to host large files for members of this forum that they can then link to.

rb455ho, if you can take a screen shot of your AutoCAD drawing and save it as a high quality (lowest compression) JPEG, I'd be happy to serve it for you so everyone can see what you're trying to illustrate. email it to:

webmasterATmanvsbigmachineDOTcom

and I'll post a link in this thread.


Just as a test, here is a 1024x768 JPEG, very high compression, image. The high compression is what makes it look blurry. But, it might still be OK for your purposes. Try it and if it's no good, send me the image and I'll put it on the server.

Cheers!

[rb455ho]

Thank you I will do that. I have some other pics I would like to post as well.

[HAWK]

aphexafx,

Here is a highly compressed JPEG from a screen shot at 1024x768 . It may not be any better. What you think? I took a different PATH to get there. Is this better or worse than your 1024x768 you posted? THE 100KB FILE SIZE LIMIT HURTS. IF THEY WOULD RAISE TO 160KB PER FILE WE WOULD BE IN GREAT SHAPE!!!

[HAWK]

aphexafx,

I am sorry for hijacking the thread. I am not trying to be difficult with this subject, but have had this problem many times. It is very hard to to post legible illustration attachments within the file size constraints of this forum. The type of files accepted is fine, but as I mentioned earlier a 160KB file size would work wonders!

If you know of anyway to do this I am really interested. The screen shot I posted was pasted in MS word, converted to a PDF w/o color management in a standard doc size, imported to Photoshop, sized to 1.65M with an approximate res of 170 using bicubic resampling, then saved as a JPEG with a #1 quality with a standard baseline. It appears to be on par or perhaps a bit better than your screen shot post, but lacks a lot. Any other ideas??

[HAWK]

aphexafx,


Try pasting a screen shot of your jpeg and my jpeg into MS paint. Magnify to 2x and 6x. What do you think? There has to be a better way???

[fun4now]

screen shot

when you take a screen shot is it in jpg or some other picture format ?? and how do you take it??
the power toy's picture reducer dose a realy great job of reducing.i would like to try it but dont know how to get a screen shot?

[fun4now]

it resizes to fit screen sizes so the pic stays clear but the kb go down. it gives thease options

small(fits 640X480 screen)
med.(800X600 screen)
larg(1024X768 screen)
hand held pc (240X320)

this pic started at 379kb i reduced it by the med. setting and got a clear coppy at 26.6KB and verry clear.

just for fun i used the hand held pc option and it reduced to 4.37 not so clear but waaaaay small


well you can see the results below

[Teeps]

Have you guys tried the crop function?

I take super high quality shots with my cam, 1200x1600 or larger, but I very seldom need the the entire shot, I may like having the great resolution, but I may only need the 70% of the center of the whole shot.

So through many different windows included, or aftermarket software packages, you can then use the hashed-line box, with the left mouse button held to hi-light exactly which part of the image you want to keep. Then using the crop function, your new image becomes only what you highlighted, and of course less resolution, and less size, but still a very good shot.

Then usually the resolution size is still rediculously large, so I change the pixel size down to the 500 range, (it automatically keeps correct aspect ratio). Sometimes it is still too big, and either I make it smaller, or compress it.

But make sure you have changed it to a jpg instead of a bmp, this makes a HUGE difference.

Fun4now, just hit the print screen button,
go to start/run/ type mspaint
ctrl-v (paste)

or some like to use word, or paintshop to paste into.

[eric75]

Try selecting what you want to copy in autocad, then ctrl c and ctrl v into powerpoint, then save the powerpoint presentation as .jpg.
It helps if you go tool/options/display/color to set the background to white in autocad
In powerpoint you can add text and arrows if you need.

When you do a sceen print I don't think that compresses very well. Try ctrl, alt, prt screen to capture just the active window. Also cropping out the toolbars will help cut down the file size.

[fun4now]

Teeps

thanks that is realy neet.

look what i did

i think they bolth came out great

[aphexafx]

HAWK, I agree that 100Kb is just too small. If they would up the limit enough to where we could post a 1024x768 JPEG with little compression everything would be great. Beyond your ideas I don't know of any way to squeeze more quality into a 1024x768 JPEG and keep it under 100Kb! millermotorsports.com, are you listening? There aren't that many images uploaded here, couldn't you even let us have 200Kb?

Teeps, if the situation allows for cropping then that's a good idea. But we're using 1024x768 as a ~standard~ of sorts and trying to get a quality, sharp, image of that size posted here. This way if the need for a full 1024x768 arises we would know that we could post it and have it be legible. Of course, anything smaller than that could be posted legibly as well.

I took a picture of two tungstens that I was going to post here once but never did. It's close up that needs to be kept sharp (as in minimal compression), so I'm going to play with it here for a few minutes and see how large of an image I can get it while still being able to post it. BRB...

[aphexafx]

Well to get this image under 100Kb I had to compress it quite a lot and as a result the image has degraded bit. However I still would have been able to make my point with it. It's only 1024x555, though, so for now I guess if you have a large illustration, just try to decrease it's width or height, if possible, and you can then use less compression.

[fun4now]

tung. preground??

what are you showing us is 1 preground and 1 done on a bench grinder?


just for fun i cut your pic in 1/2 and it still looks great
just set it up for a 800X600 screen

[aphexafx]

It's just an image I had on hand with detail in it. Yes it was originally going to be in a post about grinding, like, months ago.

Your reduced image does look good, fun4now. I wonder how well it would work for a line illustration, like a CAD drawing. Have any you could try?