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Jten · 02-14-10, 11:16 AM

Thank you for your kind thoughts, she's doing well. According to the doctor it appears to be the 'best' kind of cancer to have if one has to have it.
As far as keeping quality in Photoshop, every time you use a 'transform' effect it resamples a raster image (fancy word for any bitmap image...jpeg,gif,tiff...etc) and you lose data in the image. If you need to play with an image to get it 'just right' always make a layer copy, mess with that, then go back to the original and make all your transforms (scale,rotation,skew...etc) in one action for the least amount of resample. Jpeg files are very lossy. One should never resave a jpeg as a jpeg because you lose more info each time. Unfortunately computers love jpegs.
Indexed colors are reduced to 256 so if you have more than that in the image some will be 'thrown out'. For computer work try using the 'save for web and devices' save option. It gives you more options and previews it before you save.
The problem is worse if you make a small image (few pixels) by taking a large nice image(lots of pixels) and sizing it down. The resample keeps the color balance by retaining the predominate colors and throwing out the rest. A small image just needs to be recreated.

I'll pop open the dds file and see what I can do. Your large medal work is good. What dds export settings does the game want?

02-14-10, 11:16 AM	#7
Jten Mate Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Tennessee Posts: 55 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	Thank you for your kind thoughts, she's doing well. According to the doctor it appears to be the 'best' kind of cancer to have if one has to have it. As far as keeping quality in Photoshop, every time you use a 'transform' effect it resamples a raster image (fancy word for any bitmap image...jpeg,gif,tiff...etc) and you lose data in the image. If you need to play with an image to get it 'just right' always make a layer copy, mess with that, then go back to the original and make all your transforms (scale,rotation,skew...etc) in one action for the least amount of resample. Jpeg files are very lossy. One should never resave a jpeg as a jpeg because you lose more info each time. Unfortunately computers love jpegs. Indexed colors are reduced to 256 so if you have more than that in the image some will be 'thrown out'. For computer work try using the 'save for web and devices' save option. It gives you more options and previews it before you save. The problem is worse if you make a small image (few pixels) by taking a large nice image(lots of pixels) and sizing it down. The resample keeps the color balance by retaining the predominate colors and throwing out the rest. A small image just needs to be recreated. I'll pop open the dds file and see what I can do. Your large medal work is good. What dds export settings does the game want? Last edited by Jten; 02-14-10 at 05:46 PM.